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Preamble
礼貌的职业行为是每一位靠谱的滚球平台的责任. 而靠谱的滚球平台有义务热情地代表客户, 我们还必须铭记我们对司法的义务. Incivility to opposing counsel, adverse parties, judges, court personnel, 其他参与法律程序的人贬低了法律职业, undermines the administration of justice, 并削弱了对法律程序和司法系统结果的尊重.
我们的司法制度是一个寻求真相的过程,旨在理性地解决人类和社会问题, peacefully, 和有效的方式和设计被认为是产生公平和公正的结果. 我们必须小心谨慎,避免采取损害制度或破坏公众对制度信心的行动或言论.
The organized bar and the judiciary, in partnership with each other, 有责任在法律实践和司法中提倡文明. 靠谱的滚球平台或法官的不文明行为阻碍了理性解决纠纷的根本目标, peacefully and efficiently. 这种行为可能拖延或否定正义,削弱对法律的尊重, 什么是我们社会和职业的基石.
文明和专业是一个致力于公共服务的博学专业的标志. These standards are designed to encourage us, as lawyers and judges, 履行我们文明和专业的义务, to each other, to litigants, and to the system of justice. 目标是确保靠谱的滚球平台和法官在任何时候都能表现良好, in both litigated and nonlitigated matters, 以个人的礼貌和专业精神在这些术语中发挥最大的作用.
虽然这些标准是自愿性的,并不是环境署的本意.C. 靠谱的滚球平台公会理事会不得作为诉讼或制裁的依据, we expect that lawyers and judges in the District of Columbia will make a commitment to adhere to these standards in all aspects of their dealings with one another and with other participants in the legal process.
Finally, we believe these standards should be incorporated as an integral component of the teaching of professionalism to law students and practicing lawyers alike. We therefore believe that it is important for law schools in our community to incorporate these standards in their curricula and for the District of Columbia Bar, the voluntary bar associations, law firms, government agencies, and other legal institutions in our community to teach and promote these standards as part of their continuing legal education programs.
Adopted by the D.C. Bar Board of Governors
June 18, 1996; Amended March 11, 1997
普遍适用原则:靠谱的滚球平台对其他靠谱的滚球平台、当事人和司法机构的责任
General Principles
- 履行我们的专业职责, 我们将在法律程序中对待所有参与者, including counsel and their staff, parties, witnesses, judges, and court personnel, in a civil, professional, and courteous manner, at all times and in all communications, whether oral or written. 我们将避免采取行动或表现出种族歧视, gender, 或对任何法律程序参与者的其他偏见或偏见. 我们将尊重法律程序中的所有参与者.
- 除非是在诉状或正式诉讼中正当辩论的范围内, we will not reflect in our conduct, attitude, or demeanor our clients' ill feelings, if any, toward other participants in the legal process.
- We will not, even if called upon by a client to do so, engage in offensive conduct directed toward other participants in the legal process nor will we abuse other such participants in the legal process. 除非是在诉状或正式诉讼中正当辩论的范围内, we will abstain from disparaging personal remarks or acrimony toward such participants and treat adverse witnesses and parties with fair consideration. 我们将鼓励我们的客户以文明和尊重的态度对待法律程序中的所有参与者.
- We will not encourage or authorize any person under our control to engage in conduct that would be inappropriate under these standards if we were to engage in such conduct.
- We will not bring the profession into disrepute by making unfounded accusations of impropriety or making ad hominem attacks on counsel, and, absent good cause, 我们不会将不良动机或不当行为归咎于其他靠谱的滚球平台.
- While we owe our highest loyalty to our clients, 我们将在司法系统的框架内履行这一义务,并在其中应用我们所学到的知识, skill, 并按照行业专业规范办事. In this context, we will strive for orderly, efficient, ethical, fair, 并公正处理诉讼以及不存在争议的事项, or not yet, the subject of litigation, and for the efficient, ethical, 公平谈判和完成商业交易.
- 上述一般原则适用于法律诉讼的所有方面, 在场的:在法庭或法庭在场或不在场的.
Scheduling Matters
- We will endeavor to schedule dates for trials, hearings, depositions, meetings, negotiations, conferences, vacations, seminars, 以及其他功能,以避免在法律程序中为其他参与者造成日历冲突, 前提是我们客户的利益不会受到不利影响.
- We will notify other counsel and, if appropriate, the court or other persons, at the earliest possible time when hearings, depositions, meetings, or conferences need to be canceled or postponed. Early notice avoids unnecessary travel and expense and may enable the court and the other participants in the legal process to use the previously reserved time for other matters.
- We will agree to reasonable requests for extensions of time and for waiver of procedural formalities 前提是我们客户的利益不会受到不利影响.
- 我们不会为了不合理的延误而要求延长时间.
特别适用于诉讼的原则
Procedural Agreements
- 我们将与对方靠谱的滚球平台就诉讼过程中出现的程序问题进行协商, such as requests for extensions of time, discovery matters, pretrial matters, and the scheduling of meetings, depositions, hearings, and trial. 我们将寻求通过协议解决不需要法院命令的程序性问题. For those that do, 在将此事提交法庭之前,我们将寻求与对方靠谱的滚球平台达成协议.
- We accept primary responsibility, after consultation with the client, 就程序性协议作出决定. We will explain to our clients that cooperation between counsel in such matters is the professional norm and may be in the client's interest. We will explain the nature of the matter at issue in any such proposed agreements and explain how such agreements do not compromise the client's interests.
Discovery
- 我们不会使用任何形式的发现或发现调度骚扰, unjustified delay, to increase litigation expenses, or any other improper purpose.
- We will make good faith efforts to resolve by agreement any disputes with respect to matters contained in pleadings and discovery requests and objections.
- 我们不会在证词中做出任何法官在场时不合适的行为. Accordingly, 我们不会在取证过程中妨碍询问或反对取证问题, unless permitted by the applicable rules to preserve an objection or privilege and we will ask only those questions we reasonably believe are appropriate in discovery under the applicable rules.
- We will carefully craft document production requests so they are limited to those documents we reasonably believe are appropriate under the applicable rules. 我们不会设计生产要求以给一方带来不适当的负担或费用.
- We will respond to document requests reasonably. We will not interpret the request in an artificially restrictive manner to avoid disclosure of relevant and non-privileged documents. 我们不会以隐藏或模糊特定文件存在的方式生成文件.
- We will carefully craft interrogatories so they are limited to those matters we reasonably believe are appropriate under the applicable rules, 我们不会为了给一方带来不必要的负担或费用而设计它们.
- We will respond to interrogatories reasonably. We will not interpret interrogatories in an artificially restrictive manner to avoid disclosure of relevant and non-privileged information.
- 我们将基于对证据发现价值的真诚信念提出反对. 我们不会仅仅为了拒绝或延迟披露适当可发现的信息而反对.
- During discovery, 我们不会与对方靠谱的滚球平台进行激烈的对话或交流, parties, or witnesses. 我们将建议我们的客户按照这些规定行事. 我们不会从事有损法律程序尊严或无礼的行为.
Sanctions
- We will not seek court sanctions or disqualification of counsel unless reasonably justified by the circumstances after conducting a reasonable investigation, 包括试图与对方靠谱的滚球平台协商吗.
Lawyers' Duties to the Court
- We recognize that the public's perception of our system of justice is influenced by the relationship between lawyers and judges, and that judges perform a symbolic role. At the same time, lawyers have the right and, at times, 对法官及其裁决持批评态度的义务. 因此,在与法院的所有沟通中,我们将以文明的方式说话和写作. In expressing criticism of the court, 我们应尽量使用不尊重法院和司法制度的语言.
- 我们不会从事有损司法程序尊严和礼仪的行为, brings disorder or disruption to the courtroom, or undermines the image of the legal profession.
- 我们将建议当事人和证人在法庭上礼貌有礼, educate them about proper courtroom decorum, and, to the best of our ability, 防止他们在法庭上制造混乱或破坏.
- 我们不会故意歪曲,错误描述,错误引用,或混淆事实或权威.
- We will not degrade the intelligence, ethics, morals, integrity, or personal behavior of others, 除非该等事项在诉讼中有合法争议.
- 我们将对法官的工作人员彬彬有礼, the courtroom staff, 和其他法庭人员意识到他们, too, are an integral part of the judicial system. 我们还将建议客户和证人在法律程序中礼貌和尊重地对待这些参与者.
- We recognize that judicial resources are scarce, that court dockets are crowded, 如果案件被拖延和(或)争端得不到解决,司法公正就会受到损害. Therefore, we will be considerate of the time constraints and pressures on the court and court staff inherent in their efforts to administer justice.
- 我们认识到,拖延和忽视是对法院和司法系统的不尊重. Therefore, 我们会准时出席并准备好所有的庭审以便所有的听证会, conferences, 审判可能会按时开始并有效地进行. 我们还将教育客户和证人准时和准备的必要性. 如果延误,我们将及时通知法院和靠谱的滚球平台,如果可能的话.
- Before dates for hearings or trials are set, or, if that is not feasible, immediately after such a date has been set, we will attempt to verify the availability of necessary participants and witnesses so we can promptly notify the court of any likely problems.
- We will avoid ex parte communications with the court, including the judge's staff, on pending matters in person (whether in social, professional, or other contexts), by telephone, 在信件和其他形式的书面交流中, 除非这种通信仅与日程安排或其他非实质性行政事项有关, or are made with the consent of all parties, 或由法律或法院规则明确授权.
Judges' Duties to Lawyers
- 我们将对靠谱的滚球平台、当事人和证人保持礼貌、尊重和文明. We will maintain control of the proceedings, recognizing that judges have both the obligation and the authority to ensure that judicial proceedings are conducted with dignity, decorum, and courtesy.
- We will not employ hostile, demeaning, 或者在意见或与靠谱的滚球平台的书面或口头交流中使用侮辱性的语言, parties, or witnesses.
- We will be punctual in convening hearings, meetings, and conferences; if delayed, we will notify counsel as promptly as possible.
- In scheduling hearings, meetings, and conferences, 我们会考虑靠谱的滚球平台的时间安排, parties, and witnesses and of other courts and tribunals. 如有任何改期,我们将及时通知靠谱的滚球平台, postponement, or cancellation of hearings, meetings, or conferences.
- 同时努力有效地解决纠纷, 我们将考虑到时间的限制和靠谱的滚球平台的压力,由紧急诉讼业务. 我们将尽一切合理的努力迅速决定提交给我们决定的事项.
- 我们承认靠谱的滚球平台有权利和义务充分而恰当地陈述案件, 诉讼当事人有权获得公平公正的听证. Within the practical limits of time, 我们将允许靠谱的滚球平台提出适当的论点, to make a complete and accurate record, 提出案件时不受不合理或不必要的司法干扰.
- We will not impugn the integrity or professionalism of any lawyer on the basis of the clients whom or the causes which a lawyer represents.
- 努力做到法院工作人员对靠谱的滚球平台文明, parties, and witnesses.
- 在适当的时间,以适当的方式, 我们将提请靠谱的滚球平台注意我们观察到的与这些标准不一致的行为.
Judges' Duties to Each Other
- 我们将以礼貌和尊重的态度对待其他法官.
- In written opinions and oral remarks, we will refrain from personally attacking, disparaging, or demeaning other judges.
- 我们将努力在提供靠谱的滚球平台方面与其他法官合作, witnesses, parties, and court resources.
D.C. 靠谱的滚球平台协会自愿的文明标准:适用于陈述的原则
特别适用于涉及商业交易和其他谈判的陈述的原则
- We will not knowingly misrepresent or mischaracterize facts or authorities or affirmatively mislead another party or its counsel in negotiations.
- 我们不会在谈判中进行人身中伤或其他辱骂或无礼的行为. 我们不会在谈判桌上与对方靠谱的滚球平台或当事人进行激烈的交锋. 我们将鼓励我们的客户按照这些原则行事.
- 我们将尊重与其他靠谱的滚球平台达成的所有谅解和承诺. We will stand by proposals we have made in negotiations unless newly received information or unforeseen circumstances provide a good faith basis for rescinding them, 我们将鼓励我们的客户按照这一原则行事.
- We will not make changes to written documents under negotiation in a manner calculated to cause the opposing party or counsel to overlook or fail to appreciate the changes. We will clearly and accurately identify for other counsel and parties all changes that we have made in documents submitted to us for review.
- 在纪念各方达成的口头协议时, we will do so without making changes in substance and will strive in good faith to state the oral understandings accurately and completely. 根据意向书起草拟议的协议, 我们将努力起草公正反映各方协议的文件.
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