Title 73, Professions and Vocations

(1) It is the duty of attorneys:(1) To support the Constitution and laws of this 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 the causes confided to them, such means only as …

(1) If a lawyer, attorney at law, or counselor at law of another state is not licensed to practice law in Mississippi, a television or billboard advertisement of the person’s legal services in any language must include in the advertisement the following: “THE PERSON APPEARING IN …

(1) It is hereby declared to be the public policy of the State of Mississippi that the practice of law before any court or administrative agency is a matter of privilege and not a matter of right. (2) Subject to the conditions, rules and regulations adopted by the Supreme Court o…

Every person who has been or shall hereafter be convicted of felony in a court of this or any other state or a court of the United States, manslaughter or a violation of the Internal Revenue Code excepted, shall be incapable of obtaining a license to practice law. Any court of th…

It shall not be lawful for a clerk of any court of record or the deputy or assistant of any such clerk, or for any sheriff or his deputy, to exercise the profession or employment of an attorney or counselor at law, or to be engaged in the practice of law, or to receive any fee or…

If any justice court judge or the partner in the practice of law of any justice court judge shall appear before a justice court judge of his district as attorney or counsel in any misdemeanor case over which he has jurisdiction, or in any appeal of any such case from the judgment…

If the partner in the practice of law of any justice court judge shall appear before such justice court judge of his district, as attorney or counsel in any case, civil or criminal, or in any appeal from the judgment of such officer, or in any certiorari to such officer, he shall…

Where two (2) or more attorneys at law of this state are associated together in practice as attorneys or counselors at law, and one (1) of such attorneys shall be district attorney of his district or the county attorney of his county, it shall be unlawful for such other attorney,…

It shall be unlawful for the Attorney General or any assistant attorney general, or any district attorney, or any attorney at law associated in the practice as attorney or counselor at law with any attorney general or district attorney, to accept employment from or to represent a…

It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the practice of law in this state who has not been licensed according to law. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be punished in accordance with t…

It shall be unlawful for an attorney at law licensed in this or any other state, either before or after action brought, to promise, or give or offer to promise or give, a valuable consideration to any person as an inducement to placing, or in consideration of having placed in his…

Any attorney at law who shall violate the provisions of the preceding section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be removed and disbarred from acting as an attorney at law, and any person who shall, before or after suit brought, receive or agree to receive from any attorn…

The resident lawyers now authorized to practice law in the State of Mississippi are hereby and herewith constituted an association which shall be known as the Mississippi Bar.

All resident persons now or hereafter admitted to practice law in the state shall be members of this association.

The bar shall elect a president, a first vice president and president-elect, and a second vice president, who shall each serve for a term of one (1) year. None of such officers shall be eligible to succeed himself. The bar shall adopt bylaws for its government, fixing the term of…

The bar shall be controlled and governed by a Board of Commissioners consisting of as many members as shall be established by the bylaws of the bar or any amendments thereto, adopted at an annual meeting of the bar.

At all meetings of the board of commissioners a majority of the entire membership shall constitute a quorum for action upon any questions that may come before the board except such questions as this article or the by-laws of the organization may require to be passed upon by a lar…

A secretary, who may be designated as executive director, shall be elected by the Board of Commissioners and shall hold office for one (1) year. The secretary shall keep and maintain rolls which shall contain the name and place of residence of every lawyer in the state. He may ad…

The secretary shall also perform the duties of treasurer. He shall make bond for the safe handling of all funds for which he may become responsible, the bond to be in such penalty, with such sureties, and conditioned as the Board of Commissioners may require. Annually, and not le…

The secretary shall maintain his office at the seat of government. But the meetings of the Board of Commissioners shall be at such places as the board may select from time to time or as may be designated in calls made as herein authorized. The meetings of the bar shall be held at…

The secretary shall receive a salary in such amount and payable in such manner as the Board of Commissioners may prescribe from time to time. No other officer shall be paid a salary. But the traveling expenses of members of the board attending meetings of the board and such expen…

Enrollment on the list of members of the bar and the payment of annual enrollment fees as required hereby shall be prerequisites to the continued practice by any lawyer already admitted and to the engaging in the practice by persons hereafter admitted. The date on which the provi…

(a) Members of the bar shall be divided into active and inactive membership classes which shall be defined as follows:(a) “Active member” means any person admitted to practice law in this state and who is engaged in the practice of law in this state. Except as otherwise provided …

Any lawyer changing his residence from one circuit to another shall promptly notify the secretary who shall make the changes on his rolls to show such person’s name on the roll of the proper district.

(1) Each member of the bar shall, unless exempt by virtue of Section 73-3-125 and Section 33-1-39, pay enrollment fees each year in an amount as established by the board of commissioners, but not to exceed the sum of Four Hundred Dollars ($400.00) for those members admitted to pr…

All lawyers over the age of seventy-five (75) years, and the judges of the Supreme Court, Court of Appeals and circuit, chancery and county judges, United States magistrates, judges of the bankruptcy courts, the judges of the federal courts, and federal administrative law judges …

Any member failing to pay any enrollment fees within sixty (60) days after the same become due shall be considered delinquent and shall be given written notice of his delinquency mailed to him by United States mail, addressed to his last known address. If the delinquent fails to …

The president shall preside at all meetings of the bar, and shall have such duties as the bar may by its bylaws prescribe. In his absence, or in case of his inability to perform his duties they shall devolve upon the first vice president; and in the absence or inability to act of…

The president shall be a member and the chairman of the board of commissioners. In case he is absent from any meeting of the board, the vice president and president-elect shall preside; and in case the vice president and president-elect is absent from any meeting of the board, so…

The vice president and president-elect and the second vice president shall be members of the board of commissioners.

Vacancies in any office, including the office of commissioner, shall be filled by the board of commissioners and any person so elected by the board of commissioners to fill a vacancy shall hold for the balance of the term of his immediate predecessor in office.

If any member of the board shall be absent from three successive meetings thereof, unless the reason for his absence shall be temporary illness, the board may declare his office vacant and proceed to fill it as provided in the last preceding section.

The membership of the bar shall establish by the adoption of bylaws and amendments thereto at any annual meeting of the bar the time, method and procedures for the election of officers and members of the board. The names of those persons nominated by any method other than by peti…

The Board of Commissioners, any officer or the Executive Director of the Mississippi Bar shall not be authorized to lease any office space for the use of the Mississippi Bar if such space is being leased for an annual amount in excess of the annual amount paid by the State Suprem…

The Mississippi Bar shall be governed by the Board of Commissioners which shall have the powers and duties in this article conferred and which shall be charged with the executive functions of the bar and with the duty to enforce the provisions of this article. But the Board of Co…

(1) The board shall, subject to the approval of the justices of the Supreme Court, formulate reasonable rules governing the conduct of all persons admitted to practice. (2) The Board of Commissioners shall render advisory opinions, upon the written request of any member of the ba…

(1) It shall be the duty of the Mississippi Bar, by and through its president, to recommend to the State Legislature such legislation relating to the courts, to matters of pleading, practice and procedure, and any other legislation which in its judgment will improve the courts an…

The board of commissioners shall have no authority to regulate the fees or charges of lawyers for the rendition of their professional services. Nor shall it in any way undertake to regulate such fees or charges.

This article shall be known as “The Law Student Limited Practice Act.”

It is in the public interest to encourage the establishment and operation of effective legal internship and clinical legal education programs by law schools in this state and the utilization of services of law students in such programs as a form of legal education.

(a) For purposes of this article, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings:(a) “Law student” means a law student regularly enrolled in a law school in this state who (i) if enrolled and assigned in a legal internship program, has completed two-thirds (⅔) of…

(a) A law student enrolled in a legal internship program or a clinical legal education course is authorized to engage in limited practice in the state and federal courts of this state with the following conditions and limitations:(a) The law student will petition the court and ta…

A law student who meets the qualifications set forth in this article may petition a circuit court, chancery court, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi or the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi and present th…

Upon finding that a law student meets the qualifications for limited practice under this article, a judge of the court may order the admission of the student to limited practice in the following form: Be it known that , a law student, has petitioned this court for admission to th…

Any attorney regularly admitted to practice law in the state of Mississippi or any attorney specially admitted to practice law by a court of this state or any individual admitted to practice as an attorney in any other jurisdiction who regularly engages in the practice of law wit…

(a) The jurisdiction of the court shall be administered in the manner hereinafter set out, and the following entities are hereby established and designated as agencies of the court for such purposes:(a) The Board of Commissioners of the Mississippi Bar, including the Executive Di…