Bill Text: OR SB820 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

Oregon Senate Bill 820 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to attorneys.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Failed) 2011-06-30 - In committee upon adjournment. [SB820 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2011-SB820-Introduced.html



     76th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2011 Regular Session

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amended section is new. Matter within  { -  braces and minus
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LC 3440

                         Senate Bill 820

Sponsored by Senators MORSE, MONROE (at the request of Oregon
  Assembly for Black Affairs, Corvallis Branch NAACP, Eugene
  Branch NAACP, Salem Branch NAACP, Portland Branch NAACP,
  National Action Network Portland Beaverton Oregon, Albina
  Ministerial Alliance, Blacks In Government)

                             SUMMARY

The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.

  Requires attorney to provide unbiased and effective
representation for all clients. Describes unbiased and effective
representation.

                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to attorneys; amending ORS 9.460.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1. ORS 9.460 is amended to read:
  9.460. An attorney shall:
  (1) Support the Constitution and laws of the United States and
of this state;
  (2) Employ, for the purpose of maintaining the causes confided
to the attorney, such means only as are consistent with truth,
and never seek to mislead the court or jury by any artifice or
false statement of law or fact;
  (3) Maintain the confidences and secrets of the attorney's
clients consistent with the rules of professional conduct
established pursuant to ORS 9.490;   { - and - }
  (4) Never reject, for any personal consideration, the cause of
the defenseless or the oppressed  { - . - }  { + ; and
  (5) Provide unbiased and effective legal representation for all
clients. For the purposes of this subsection:
  (a) Unbiased legal representation is the provision of legal
representation by an attorney without the attorney allowing the
attorney's personal history or cultural background, or society's
historical attitudes towards a client, to determine how the
attorney will represent a client; and
  (b) An attorney provides effective legal representation if the
attorney aggressively uses all applicable facts and laws in
representing a client without regard to the client's culture or
ability to pay. + }
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