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Miss. Code Ann. § 73-3-37

Duties of attorneys

Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case 597 So. 2d 615 - Haynes v. Anderson (1992)

Most recently applied in 100 So. 3d 420 - Great American E & S Insurance Co. v. Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & Boyer, P.A. (October 2012)

Codes, 1892, § 210; 1906, § 216; Hemingway’s 1917, § 190; 1930, § 3693; 1942, § 8665; reenacted without change, Laws, 1983, ch. 457, § 5; reenacted, Laws, 1991, ch. 560, § 5; re…

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It is the duty of attorneys:

(1) To support the Constitution and laws of this state and of the United States;

(2) To maintain the respect due to courts of justice and judicial officers;

(3) To employ for the purpose of maintaining the causes confided to them, such means only as are consistent with truth, and never to seek to mislead by any artifice or false statement of the law;

(4) To maintain inviolate the confidence and, at every peril to themselves, to preserve the secrets of their clients;

(5) To abstain from all offensive personalities, and to advance no fact prejudicial to the honor or reputation of a party or witness, unless required by the justice of the cause with which they are charged;

(6) To encourage neither the commencement nor continuance of an action or proceeding from any motives of passion or personal interest;

(7) Never to reject, for any consideration personal to themselves, the cause of the defenseless or oppressed.

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