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Newspaper publications by a lawyer as to pending or anticipated litigation may interfere with a fair trial in the Courts and otherwise prejudice the due administration of justice. Generally they are to be condemned. If the extreme circumstances of a particular...

Report of the First[-thirty-first] Annual Meeting of the Virginia State Bar ... - Page 287
by Virginia State Bar Association - 1911
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ABA Compendium of Professional Responsibility Rules and Standards

Judges - 2004 - 652 pages

...essential to the ends of justice, a lawyer should avoid testifying in court in behalf of his client. Canon 20. Newspaper Discussion of Pending Litigation. Newspaper...public, it is unprofessional to make it anonymously. An ex parte reference to the facts should not go beyond quotation from the records and papers on file...

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