VICE-PRESIDENTIAL VICE PRESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS (Made up of the Parishes composing the several FIRST DISTRICT Orleans, St. John the Baptist, St. Charles, St. Bernard SECOND DISTRICT Caddo, Bossier, Webster, Bienville, Claiborne, Union, Lin- THIRD DISTRICT DeSoto, Red River, Winn, Grant, Natchitoches, Sabine, Vernon, Calcasieu, Evangeline, Cameron, Rapides, Avoyelles, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge, Iberville, St. Landry, Acadia, Lafayette, Vermilion, Beauregard, Allen and Jefferson Davis. FOURTH DISTRICT St. Martin, Iberia, St. Mary, Terrebonne, Lafourche, Assumption, Ascension, St. James, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, West Feliciana, St. Helena, Livingston, Tangipahoa, St. Tammany and Washington. Charter OF THE LOUISIANA BAR ASSOCIATION EDITION OF 1914 ARTICLE J The name and style of this corporation shall be the "Louisi ana Bar Association," and its domicile in the City of New Orleans; it shall exist for ninety-nine years, and shall be vested with all the powers and attributes of such organization. ARTICLE II-CODE OF ETHICS It Shall Be Our Duty: 1. To support the Constitution and laws of the 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 causes confided to us, such means only as are consistent with truth, and never seek to mislead a judge by artifice or false statement of the law. 4. To maintain inviolate the confidence, and, at every peril to ourselves, to preserve the secrets of our clients. 5. To abstain from all offensive personalities, and to advance no fact prejudicial to the honor or reputation of a party, OF THE ASSOCIATION or witness, unless required by the justice of the cause with which we are charged. 6. To encourage neither the commencement, nor the continuance of an action or proceeding, from any motive of passion or interest. 7. Never to reject, for any consideration personal to ourselves, the cause of the defenseless or oppressed. 8. To live uprightly; and, in our persons, to justify before men the dignity, honor and integrity of a great and noble profession. ARTICLE III-OBJECTS AND PURPOSES The objects and purposes of this Association are to promute the interests, dignity and character of the Bar of Louisiana; and to that end to cultivate a fraternal spirit between its members; to maintain a high standard of education and qualification for admission to the Bar; to take notes of violations by its members of the ethics of the profession; to provide by proper rules for the punishment by fine or expulsion of its members found guilty of professional misconduct; to assist the authorities in punishing such guilty members of the Bar, whether members or not members of the Association; to exert all due and proper influence to induce the constituted authorities to provide a proper courthouse in the City of New Orleans for the Courts of the City and State; to create and maintain a law library for the use of its members; and to promote in general the welfare of the profession in this State. |