It is the duty of attorneys:

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

Terms Used In Alabama Code 34-3-20

  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • United States: includes the territories thereof and the District of Columbia. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
(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 the judges 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 a witness, unless required by the justice of the cause with which they are charged.
(6) To encourage neither the commencement nor continuance of any action or proceeding from any motive of passion or interest.
(7) Never to reject for any consideration personal to themselves the cause of the defenseless or oppressed.
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