§ 33-43-1-3 — Duties

Indiana § 33-43-1-3

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Art. 43: PRACTICE OF LAW
• Ch. 1: Practice of Law by Attorneys

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An attorney shall do the following:
(1) Support the Constitution and laws of the United States and of
Indiana.
(2) Maintain the respect that is due to the courts of justice and
judicial officers.
(3) Only counsel or maintain actions, proceedings, or defenses
that appear to the attorney to be legal and just. However, this
subdivision may not be construed to prevent the defense of a
person charged with a crime.
(4) Employ, for the purpose of maintaining the causes confided to
the attorney, only those means that are consistent with truth and
never seek to mislead the court or jury by any artifice or false
statement of fact or law.
(5) Maintain inviolate the confidence and, at every peril to the
attorney, to preserve the secrets of the attorney's client.
(6) Abstain from all offensive personality, 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 the attorney is
charged.
(7) Not to encourage either the commencement or the continuance
of an action or proceeding from any motive of passion or interest.
(8) Never to reject, from any consideration personal to the
attorney, the cause of the defenseless or oppressed.
(9) To promptly account to and pay over to a client any money
coming into the hands of the attorney to which the client is
lawfully entitled.
(10) To abstain from direct or indirect solicitation of employment
to institute, prosecute, or defend against any claim, action, or
cause of action.
[Pre-2004 Recodification Citation: 33-21-1-3.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.98-2004, SEC.22.