27-13 Conduct of Attorneys
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<![CDATA[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<br>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<br>protector of individual rights;4.Support the provision of legal services for indigent persons, public service, and<br>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<br>means only as are consistent with truth and honor, and never seek to mislead the<br>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<br>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<br>necessary and proper for the prosecution of an action or proceeding about to be or<br>already commenced, or for the prosecution or defense of any right growing out of an<br>action, proceeding, or final judgment rendered therein.2.Bind the attorney's client to any agreement in respect to any proceeding within the<br>scope of the attorney's proper duties and powers, but no evidence of any such<br>agreement is receivable, except the statement of the attorney, the attorney's written<br>agreement signed and filed with the clerk, or an entry thereof upon the records of the<br>court.3.Receive money claimed by the attorney's client in an action or proceeding during the<br>pendency thereof or afterwards, unless the attorney has been previously discharged<br>by the attorney's client, and upon payment thereof, and not otherwise, may<br>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<br>grounds therefor, may require the attorney for the adverse party, or for any one of the several<br>adverse parties, to produce or prove by the attorney's oath or otherwise the authority under which<br>the attorney appears and until the attorney does so may stay all proceedings by that attorney on<br>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, </p>
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