CHAPTER 27-13CONDUCT OF ATTORNEYS27-13-01. Duties of attorneys. Every attorney and counselor at law shall:1.Maintain respect for courts of justice and judicial officers;2.Counsel or maintain no claim that appears to the attorney to be unjust, nor any defense except one the attorney believes to be honestly debatable under the law;3.Perform faithfully the attorney's responsibilities as an officer of the court and protector of individual rights;4.Support the provision of legal services for indigent persons, public service, and public education about the law;5.Work to make the legal system more accessible, responsive, and just;6.Employ for purposes of maintaining the causes confided to the attorney, those means only as are consistent with truth and honor, and never seek to mislead the judge or jury by any artifice or false statement of fact or law; and7.Never reject, from any consideration personal to the attorney, the cause of the defenseless or oppressed, or delay anyone's cause for profit or malice.27-13-02. Powers of attorneys. An attorney and counselor at law may:1.Execute, in the name of the attorney's client, a bond or other written instrument necessary and proper for the prosecution of an action or proceeding about to be or already commenced, or for the prosecution or defense of any right growing out of an action, proceeding, or final judgment rendered therein.2.Bind the attorney's client to any agreement in respect to any proceeding within the scope of the attorney's proper duties and powers, but no evidence of any such agreement is receivable, except the statement of the attorney, the attorney's written agreement signed and filed with the clerk, or an entry thereof upon the records of the court.3.Receive money claimed by the attorney's client in an action or proceeding during the pendency thereof or afterwards, unless the attorney has been previously discharged by the attorney's client, and upon payment thereof, and not otherwise, may discharge the claim or acknowledge satisfaction of the judgment.27-13-03. Attorney not to be surety. No practicing attorney and counselor at law maybe a surety in any action or proceeding which may be instituted in any of the courts of this state.27-13-04. Court may require proof of attorney's authority - Proceedings stayeduntil proof furnished. A court, on motion of either party and on the showing of reasonable grounds therefor, may require the attorney for the adverse party, or for any one of the several adverse parties, to produce or prove by the attorney's oath or otherwise the authority under which the attorney appears and until the attorney does so may stay all proceedings by that attorney on behalf of the parties for whom that attorney assumes to appear.27-13-05.Attorney's refusal to deliver client's money or property - Penalty.Repealed by S.L. 2001, ch. 287,
CHAPTER 27-13CONDUCT OF ATTORNEYS27-13-01. Duties of attorneys. Every attorney and counselor at law shall:1.Maintain respect for courts of justice and judicial officers;2.Counsel or maintain no claim that appears to the attorney to be unjust, nor any defense except one the attorney believes to be honestly debatable under the law;3.Perform faithfully the attorney's responsibilities as an officer of the court and protector of individual rights;4.Support the provision of legal services for indigent persons, public service, and public education about the law;5.Work to make the legal system more accessible, responsive, and just;6.Employ for purposes of maintaining the causes confided to the attorney, those means only as are consistent with truth and honor, and never seek to mislead the judge or jury by any artifice or false statement of fact or law; and7.Never reject, from any consideration personal to the attorney, the cause of the defenseless or oppressed, or delay anyone's cause for profit or malice.27-13-02. Powers of attorneys. An attorney and counselor at law may:1.Execute, in the name of the attorney's client, a bond or other written instrument necessary and proper for the prosecution of an action or proceeding about to be or already commenced, or for the prosecution or defense of any right growing out of an action, proceeding, or final judgment rendered therein.2.Bind the attorney's client to any agreement in respect to any proceeding within the scope of the attorney's proper duties and powers, but no evidence of any such agreement is receivable, except the statement of the attorney, the attorney's written agreement signed and filed with the clerk, or an entry thereof upon the records of the court.3.Receive money claimed by the attorney's client in an action or proceeding during the pendency thereof or afterwards, unless the attorney has been previously discharged by the attorney's client, and upon payment thereof, and not otherwise, may discharge the claim or acknowledge satisfaction of the judgment.27-13-03. Attorney not to be surety. No practicing attorney and counselor at law maybe a surety in any action or proceeding which may be instituted in any of the courts of this state.27-13-04. Court may require proof of attorney's authority - Proceedings stayeduntil proof furnished. A court, on motion of either party and on the showing of reasonable grounds therefor, may require the attorney for the adverse party, or for any one of the several adverse parties, to produce or prove by the attorney's oath or otherwise the authority under which the attorney appears and until the attorney does so may stay all proceedings by that attorney on behalf of the parties for whom that attorney assumes to appear.27-13-05.Attorney's refusal to deliver client's money or property - Penalty.Repealed by S.L. 2001, ch. 287,
CHAPTER 27-13CONDUCT OF ATTORNEYS27-13-01. Duties of attorneys. Every attorney and counselor at law shall:1.Maintain respect for courts of justice and judicial officers;2.Counsel or maintain no claim that appears to the attorney to be unjust, nor any defense except one the attorney believes to be honestly debatable under the law;3.Perform faithfully the attorney's responsibilities as an officer of the court and protector of individual rights;4.Support the provision of legal services for indigent persons, public service, and public education about the law;5.Work to make the legal system more accessible, responsive, and just;6.Employ for purposes of maintaining the causes confided to the attorney, those means only as are consistent with truth and honor, and never seek to mislead the judge or jury by any artifice or false statement of fact or law; and7.Never reject, from any consideration personal to the attorney, the cause of the defenseless or oppressed, or delay anyone's cause for profit or malice.27-13-02. Powers of attorneys. An attorney and counselor at law may:1.Execute, in the name of the attorney's client, a bond or other written instrument necessary and proper for the prosecution of an action or proceeding about to be or already commenced, or for the prosecution or defense of any right growing out of an action, proceeding, or final judgment rendered therein.2.Bind the attorney's client to any agreement in respect to any proceeding within the scope of the attorney's proper duties and powers, but no evidence of any such agreement is receivable, except the statement of the attorney, the attorney's written agreement signed and filed with the clerk, or an entry thereof upon the records of the court.3.Receive money claimed by the attorney's client in an action or proceeding during the pendency thereof or afterwards, unless the attorney has been previously discharged by the attorney's client, and upon payment thereof, and not otherwise, may discharge the claim or acknowledge satisfaction of the judgment.27-13-03. Attorney not to be surety. No practicing attorney and counselor at law maybe a surety in any action or proceeding which may be instituted in any of the courts of this state.27-13-04. Court may require proof of attorney's authority - Proceedings stayeduntil proof furnished. A court, on motion of either party and on the showing of reasonable grounds therefor, may require the attorney for the adverse party, or for any one of the several adverse parties, to produce or prove by the attorney's oath or otherwise the authority under which the attorney appears and until the attorney does so may stay all proceedings by that attorney on behalf of the parties for whom that attorney assumes to appear.27-13-05.Attorney's refusal to deliver client's money or property - Penalty.Repealed by S.L. 2001, ch. 287,