73-3-57 - Unlawful to encourage litigation.
§ 73-3-57. Unlawful to encourage litigation.
It shall be unlawful for an attorney at law, either before or after action brought, to promise, or give or offer to promise or give, a valuable consideration to any person as an inducement to placing, or in consideration of having placed in his hands, or in the hands of any partnership of which he is a member, a demand of any kind, for the purpose of bringing suit or making claim against another, or to employ a person to search for and procure clients to be brought to such attorney.
Sources: Codes, 1906, § 231; Hemingway's 1917, § 208; 1930, § 3711; 1942, § 8683; reenacted without change, Laws, 1983, ch. 457, § 14; reenacted, 1991, ch. 560, § 14; reenacted without change, Laws, 1999, ch. 372, § 15; reenacted without change, Laws, 2003, ch. 524, § 14; reenacted without change, Laws, 2006, ch. 471, § 14, eff from and after July 1, 2006.