Okla. Stat. tit. 5, § 5-3
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Duties of attorney and counselor
Official statutory text
It is the duty of an attorney and counselor:
First. To maintain, while in the presence of the courts of
justice, or in the presence of judicial officers engaged in the
discharge of judicial duties, the respect due to the said courts and
judicial officers, and at all times to obey all lawful orders and
writs of the court.
Second. To counsel and maintain no actions, proceedings or
defenses, except those which appear to him legal and just, except
the defense of a person charged with a public offense.
Third. To employ for the purpose of maintaining the causes
confided to him such means only as are consistent with truth, and
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never to seek to mislead the judges by any artifice or false
statements of facts or law.
Fourth. To maintain inviolate the confidence, and, at any peril
to himself, to preserve the secrets of his client.
Fifth. To abstain from all offensive personalities, 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 he is
charged.
Sixth. Not to encourage either the commencement or continuance
of an action or proceeding from motive of passion or interest.
Seventh. Never to reject for any consideration personal to
himself the cause of the defenseless or the oppressed.
First. To maintain, while in the presence of the courts of
justice, or in the presence of judicial officers engaged in the
discharge of judicial duties, the respect due to the said courts and
judicial officers, and at all times to obey all lawful orders and
writs of the court.
Second. To counsel and maintain no actions, proceedings or
defenses, except those which appear to him legal and just, except
the defense of a person charged with a public offense.
Third. To employ for the purpose of maintaining the causes
confided to him such means only as are consistent with truth, and
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 5. Attorneys and State Bar Page 4
never to seek to mislead the judges by any artifice or false
statements of facts or law.
Fourth. To maintain inviolate the confidence, and, at any peril
to himself, to preserve the secrets of his client.
Fifth. To abstain from all offensive personalities, 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 he is
charged.
Sixth. Not to encourage either the commencement or continuance
of an action or proceeding from motive of passion or interest.
Seventh. Never to reject for any consideration personal to
himself the cause of the defenseless or the oppressed.
Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site
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