 | Law - 1917 - 498 pages
...Association, viz: "No lawyer is obliged to act either as adviser or advocate for every person who may wish to become his client. H"e has the right to decline employment....what cases he will contest in court for defendants." We unqualifiedly accept and indorse the concise statement of the legal proposition as set forth in... | |
 | South Dakota. Supreme Court - Court rules - 1918 - 804 pages
...viz. : "No lawyer is obliged to act either as adviser or advocate for every person who may wish to become his client. He has the right to decline employment....what cases he will contest in court for defendants." We unqualifiedly accept and indorse the concise statement of the legal proposition as set forth in... | |
 | Law - 1906 - 688 pages
...Litigation. No lawyer is obliged to act either as adviser or advocate for every person whomay wish to become his client. He has the right to decline employment....will accept as counsel, what causes he will bring inta court for plaintiffs, what cases he will contest in court for defendants. The responsibility for... | |
 | A. Leo Weil - Lawyers - 1908 - 32 pages
...the right to refuse retainers. Every lawyer must decide what business he will accept as counsellor, what causes he will bring into Court for plaintiffs,...questionable transactions, for bringing questionable is suits, for urging questionable defenses, is the lawyer's responsibility. He cannot escape it by... | |
 | American Bar Association. Committee to Draft Canons of Professional Ethics - 1908 - 140 pages
...'court for plaintiffs, what cases he 'Mill conduct in courts 'for defendants. It follows further that the responsibility 'for advising questionable transactions,...questionable suits, for urging questionable defenses, is the law'ye/s responsibility. He cannot escape it by urging, as 'an excuse, that he is only following his... | |
 | Thomas Hughes - Legal ethics - 1909 - 102 pages
...retainers. Every lawyer must decide what business he will accept as counsellor, what caus'ek,ne wi\l bring, into Court for plaintiffs, what cases he will...contest in Court for defendants. The responsibility for"«dv"ising questionable transactions, for bringing questionable suits, for urging questionable... | |
 | Gleason Leonard Archer - Legal ethics - 1910 - 382 pages
...Litigation. — No lawyer is obliged to act either as adviser or advocate for every person who may wish to become his client. He has the right to decline employment....what business he will accept as counsel, what causes ' See § 72. • See § 93. he will bring into court for plaintiffs, what cases he will contest in... | |
 | Admission to the bar - 1911 - 1092 pages
...Litigation. No lawyer is obliged to act either as adviser or advocate for every person who may wish to become his client. He has the right to decline employment....for plaintiffs, what cases he will contest in Court ior defendants. The responsibility for advising questionable transactions, for bringing questionable... | |
 | Georgia Bar Association - Bar associations - 1911 - 302 pages
...Litigation. No lawyer is obliged to act either as adviser or advocate for every person who may wish to become his client. He has the right to decline employment....causes he will bring into Court for plaintiffs, what causes he will contest in Court for defendants. The responsibility for advising questionable transactions,... | |
 | William Howard Taft - Executive power - 1915 - 130 pages
...may wish to become his client; that he has the right to decline employment, and that each lawyer on his own responsibility must decide what business he...what causes he will bring into court for plaintiffs, and what suits he will contest in court for defence. The court knows that the responsibility for bringing... | |
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Litigation. No lawyer is obliged to act either as adviser or advocate for every person who may wish to become his client. He has the right to decline employment. Every lawyer upon his own responsibility must decide what business he will accept as counsel,... 
