It is the duty of attorneys:
(1) To support the Constitution and laws of this state and of the United States.
(2) To maintain the respect due to courts of justice and judicial officers.
(3) To employ for the purpose of maintaining the causes confided to them such means only as are consistent with truth and never to seek to mislead the judges by any artifice or false statement of the law.
(4) To maintain inviolate the confidence and at every peril to themselves to preserve the secrets of their clients.
(5) To abstain from all offensive personalities and to advance no fact prejudicial to the honor or reputation of a party or a witness, unless required by the justice of the cause with which they are charged.
(6) To encourage neither the commencement nor continuance of any action or proceeding from any motive of passion or interest.
(7) Never to reject for any consideration personal to themselves the cause of the defenseless or oppressed.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.
Article 1 - General Provisions.
Section 34-3-1 - Unlawful Practice of Law.
Section 34-3-2 - Board of Examiners.
Section 34-3-2.1 - Certified Graduates of Certain Law Schools Authorized to Take Bar Exam.
Section 34-3-3 - Admission Fee Paid by Applicants.
Section 34-3-4 - Disposition of Admission and License Fees.
Section 34-3-5 - Effect of Default in License Payment.
Section 34-3-6 - Who May Practice as Attorneys.
Section 34-3-8 - Clerk or Employee Practicing Before Court.
Section 34-3-9 - Certain Ministerial Officers Prohibited From Practicing Law.
Section 34-3-10 - Practicing Law by Register or Clerk of Circuit Court.
Section 34-3-11 - Judges Not to Practice Law.
Section 34-3-12 - Partner of District Attorney Prohibited From Defending in Certain Cases.
Section 34-3-14 - Officers and Deputies Disqualified From Practicing.
Section 34-3-15 - Attorney to Take Oath.
Section 34-3-19 - Any Person May Manage His Own Case.
Section 34-3-20 - Duties of Attorneys.
Section 34-3-21 - Authority of Attorneys in Case - Generally.
Section 34-3-22 - Authority of Attorneys in Case - Proceedings on Appearance Without Authority.
Section 34-3-23 - Authority of Attorneys in Case - Proof.
Section 34-3-24 - Encouraging Litigation; Champerty - Generally.
Section 34-3-25 - Encouraging Litigation; Champerty - Receiving Compensation From Attorney.