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Legal Ethics: of Counsel

Legal ethics defines the principles that should govern an attorney's conduct towards the court, clients, colleagues, and the public. The document defines key legal terms like lawyer, attorney-at-law, counsel, bar, and bench. It also describes the roles of an attorney appointed by the court to defend an indigent defendant, an experienced lawyer employed as a consultant by law firms, and an impartial attorney invited by the court to help dispose of issues.

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Legal Ethics: of Counsel

Legal ethics defines the principles that should govern an attorney's conduct towards the court, clients, colleagues, and the public. The document defines key legal terms like lawyer, attorney-at-law, counsel, bar, and bench. It also describes the roles of an attorney appointed by the court to defend an indigent defendant, an experienced lawyer employed as a consultant by law firms, and an impartial attorney invited by the court to help dispose of issues.

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Legal Ethics An attorney appointed by the court

to defend an indigent defendant in a


Defined as the embodiment of all criminal action or to represent a destitute
principles of morality and refinement that party in a case.
should govern the conduct of every
Of Counsel
member of the bar.
An experienced lawyer, who is
Specifically, it refers to that branch
usually a retired member of judiciary,
of moral science which treats of the duties
employed by law firms as consultant.
which an attorney owes to the court, to his
client, to his colleagues in the profession Amicus Curiae
and to the public.
An experienced and impartial
Definitions attorney invited by the court to appear
and help in the disposition of issues
Lawyer, Attorney, Attorney-at-law
submitted to it.
Refers to that class of persons who
Bar
by license are officers of the court and
who are empowered to appear, prosecute, Refers to the legal profession
and defend and on whom peculiar duties,
Bench
responsibilities and liabilities are devolved
by law as a consequence. Means the judiciary
A person who is a member of the
Philippine Bar, and who, by the warrant of
another, practices law or who acts
professionally in legal formalities,
negotiations or proceedings, by authority
of his client, is an attorney within the
meaning of the term.
Counsel
Is an adviser, a person professionally
engaged in the trial or management of a
cause in court; a legal advocate managing
a case at law.
Counsel de parte
An attorney retained by a party
litigant, usually for a fee, to prosecute or
defend his cause in court.
Counsel de oficio

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