Under Rules of Professional Misconduct, an Attorney Should Not Engage

question 16

True/False

Under rules of professional misconduct, an attorney should not engage in conduct involving deceit.

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Definitions:

Poisoning the Well

A logical fallacy where adverse information about a target is preemptively presented to an audience, with the intention of discrediting or ridiculing everything the target person is about to say.

Motives

The reasons or motivations behind one's actions or behavior.

Reasoning

The act of analyzing something systematically to arrive at a decision or evaluation.

Ad Hominem Fallacy

A fallacy that attacks the person making an argument rather than the argument itself, aiming to discredit the argument by discrediting its proponent.