ADVOCATE
RULE 3.4 FAIRNESS TO OPPOSING
PARTY AND COUNSEL
A lawyer shall not:
(a) unlawfully obstruct
another party' s access to evidence or unlawfully alter,
destroy or conceal a document or other material having
potential evidentiary value. A lawyer shall not counsel
or assist another person to do any such act;
(b) falsify evidence,
counsel or assist a witness to testify falsely, or offer
an inducement to a witness that is prohibited by law;
(c) knowingly disobey
an obligation under the rules of a tribunal except for
an open refusal based on an assertion that no valid obligation
exists;
(d) in pretrial procedure,
make a frivolous discovery request or fail to make reasonably
diligent effort to comply with a legally proper discovery
request by an opposing party;
(e) in trial, allude
to any matter that the lawyer does not reasonably believe
is relevant or that will not be supported by admissible
evidence, assert personal knowledge of facts in issue
except when testifying as a witness, or state a personal
opinion as to the justness of a cause, the credibility
of a witness, the culpability of a civil litigant or the
guilt or innocence of an accused; or
(f) request a person
other than a client to refrain from voluntarily giving
relevant information to another party unless:
(1) the person is
a relative or an employee or other agent of a client;
and
(2) the lawyer reasonably
believes that the person's interests will not be adversely
affected by refraining from giving such information.
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