Report of the ... Annual Meeting of the Maryland State Bar Association, Volume 6, Part 1901Maryland State Bar Association, 1901 |
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adjourn Administration and Legal admission adopted amendment Annapolis application Assembly Asso attorney Baltimore City Balto Bar Association Bel Air Bernard bill Bldg candidate carried unanimously cause Chair Charles E Charles st charters Chestertown client Commission Committee on Judicial Constitution corporation County Court of Appeals Cumberland duty election Elkton enacted Equitable Building evil examination Executive Council favor Fidelity Building Frank Garrett County gentlemen George Hagerstown Henry Herald Building James John John Thomson Mason Judge McSherry Judicial Administration justice Law Building lawyers Legal Ethics Legal Reform legislation Legislature Lehmayer Lexington st Little Round Top Maryland Maryland State Bar matter meeting mittee Owens paper party passed Paul st practice President Princess Anne profession purpose question referred resolution Robert Sams Secretary session statute suggestion Talbott Thomas tion Towson Turner Upper Marlboro vote voters Westminster Whitelock William H Wirt
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Page 56 - A lawyer openly, and in his true character may render professional services before legislative or other bodies, regarding proposed legislation and in advocacy of claims before departments of government, upon the same principles of ethics which justify his appearance before the Courts...
Page 59 - A lawyer should endeavor to obtain full knowledge of his client's cause before advising thereon, and he is bound to give a candid opinion of the merits and probable result of pending or contemplated litigation.
Page 53 - Go in Supporting a Client's Cause. Nothing operates more certainly to create or to foster popular prejudice against lawyers as a class, and to deprive the profession of that full measure of public esteem and confidence which belongs to the proper discharge of its duties than does the false claim, often set up by the unscrupulous in defense of questionable transactions, that it is the duty of the lawyer to do whatever may enable him to succeed in winning his client's cause.
Page 27 - The President : You have heard the report of the Committee. What is the pleasure of the Association in reference to it.
Page 50 - I will abstain from all offensive personality, and advance no fact prejudicial to the honor or reputation of a party or witness, unless required by the justice of the cause with which...
Page 18 - Corporations may be formed under general laws ; but shall not be created by special act, except for municipal purposes, and in cases where, in the judgment of the Legislature, the objects of the corporation cannot be attained under general laws.
Page 162 - I hereby certify that Edward J. Peters, esquire, before whom the annexed affidavits were made, and who has thereto subscribed his name, was, at the time of so doing, a justice of the peace of the State of Maryland, in and for the city of Baltimore, duly commissioned and sworn. In testimony...
Page 138 - You'd scarce expect one of my age, To speak in public on the stage ; And if I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections by. Large streams from little fountains flow; Tall oaks from little acorns grow...
Page 55 - No. 55. notices, regarding causes in which the attorney takes part, the manner in which they were conducted, the importance of his positions, the magnitude of the interests involved, and all other like self-laudation, is of evil tendency and wholly unprofessional. 17. Newspaper publications by an attorney as to the merits of pending or anticipated litigation, call forth discussion and reply from the opposite party, tend to prevent a fair trial in the courts, and otherwise prejudice the due administration...
Page 58 - ... incidental matters pending the trial, not affecting the merits of the cause, or working substantial prejudice to the rights of the client, such as forcing the opposite...