Report of the First[-thirty-first] Annual Meeting of the Virginia State Bar Association, 8. sējumsVirginia State Bar Association, 1895 |
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adjournment adopted ANDERSON annual meeting application appointed Assembly Asso attorney Bar Association Bedford City Big Stone Gap by-laws called cause chairman Chancery CHARLES Charlottesville Christiansburg client Clifton Forge Committee on Admissions Committee on Legal Commonwealth constitution Court of Appeals Court of Chancery criminal Danville DAVID DENTON District Courts duty Education and Admission elected Executive Committee Federal GEORGE GEORGE D Harrison Harrisonburg honor JAMES JOHN H Judge Lacy judgment judiciary jurisdiction jury justice lawyer learning Legal Education Legislature Lexington license literary Lynchburg matter memorial ment mittee MONTAGUE Norfolk opinion paper person Petersburg practice practise law present President President,—I principle proceedings profession question RANDOLPH Richmond Roanoke rule second bill Secretary session standing committees Staunton Superior Courts Supreme Court Tazewell thereof THOMAS THOMAS D tion trial Virginia State Bar voucher Warrenton WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS WILLIAM Wytheville
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234. lappuse - I said, there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid.
273. lappuse - ... interrogatories and the like, the lawyer must be allowed to judge. In such matters no client has a right to demand that his counsel shall be illiberal, or that he do anything therein repugnant to his own sense of honor and propriety.
272. lappuse - ... principles of ethics which justify his appearance before the Courts; but it is unprofessional for a lawyer so engaged to conceal his attorneyship, or to employ secret personal solicitations, or to use means other than those addressed to the reason and understanding to influence action.
270. lappuse - The lawyer owes entire devotion to the interest of the client, warm zeal in the maintenance and defense of his rights, and the exertion of his utmost learning and ability, to the end that nothing be taken or be withheld from him, save by the rules of law.
271. lappuse - 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.
271. lappuse - It is disreputable to hunt up defects in titles or other causes of action and inform thereof in order to be employed to bring suit, or to breed litigation by seeking out those with claims for personal injuries or those having any other grounds of action in order to secure them as clients...
273. lappuse - He has no right to demand that his counsel shall abuse the opposite party or indulge in offensive personalities. Improper speech is not excusable on the ground that it is what the client would say if speaking in his own behalf.
237. lappuse - So Tongue was the lawyer, and argued the cause With a great deal of skill, and a wig full of learning ; While chief baron Ear sat to balance the laws, So famed for his talent in nicely discerning. In behalf of the Nose it will quickly appear, And your lordship...
267. lappuse - ... arising. There are pitfalls and mantraps at every step, and the mere youth, at the very outset of his career, needs often the prudence and self-denial, as well as the moral courage, which belong commonly to riper years. High moral principle is his only safe guide ; the only torch to light his way amidst darkness and obstruction.
235. lappuse - It is likewise to be observed, that this society has a peculiar cant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply ; whereby they have wholly confounded the very essence of truth and falsehood, of right and wrong...