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MS Code § 71-5-531 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 71 - Labor and Industry|Chapter 5 - Unemployment Compensation|Article 11 - Benefits|§ 71-5-531. Court review

 Within ten (10) days after the decision of the Board of Review has become final, any party aggrieved thereby may secure judicial review thereof by commencing an action, in the circuit court of the county in which the plaintiff resides, against the department for the review of such decision, in which action any other party to the proceeding before the Board of Review shall be made a defendant. In cases wherein the plaintiff is not a resident of the State of Mississippi, such action may be filed in the circuit court of the county in which the employer resides, the county in which the cause of action arose, or in the county of employment. In such action, a petition which need not be verified, but which shall state the grounds upon which a review is sought, shall be served upon the department or upon such person as the department may designate, and such service shall be deemed completed service on all parties; but there shall be left with the party so served as many copies of the petition as there are defendants, and the department shall forthwith mail one (1) such copy to each such defendant. With its answer, the department shall certify and file with said court all documents and papers and a transcript of all testimony taken in the matter, together with the Board of Review's findings of fact and decision therein. The department may also, in its discretion, certify to such court questions of law involved in any decision. In any judicial proceedings under this section, the findings of the Board of Review as to the facts, if supported by evidence and in the absence of fraud, shall be conclusive, and the jurisdiction of the court shall be confined to questions of law. Such actions, and the questions so certified, shall be heard in a summary manner and shall be given precedence over all other civil cases. An appeal may be taken from the decision of the circuit court of the county in which the plaintiff resides to the Supreme Court of Mississippi, in the same manner, but not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, as is provided in civil cases. It shall not be necessary, in any judicial proceeding under this section, to enter exceptions to the rulings of the Board of Review, and no bond shall be required for entering such appeal. Upon the final determination of such judicial proceeding, the Board of Review shall enter an order in accordance with such determination. A petition for judicial review shall not act as a supersedeas or stay unless the Board of Review shall so order.
MS Code § 71-5-533 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 71 - Labor and Industry|Chapter 5 - Unemployment Compensation|Article 11 - Benefits|§ 71-5-533. Appeal by commission

 The commission shall be authorized to appeal from decisions of the board of review involving questions of interpretation of this chapter. Such appeals shall be served upon the other parties to the decision of the board of review and shall be heard by the courts in the manner as provided in Section 71-5-531. Such an appeal by the commission under this section shall not have the effect of denying benefits to any claimant who has been awarded benefits by virtue of the decision of the board of review from which the appeal is taken.
MS Code § 71-5-535 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 71 - Labor and Industry|Chapter 5 - Unemployment Compensation|Article 11 - Benefits|§ 71-5-535. Waiver of rights void

 Any agreement by an individual to waive, release, or commute his right to benefits or any other rights under this chapter shall be void. Any agreement by any individual in the employ of any person or concern to pay all or any portion of an employer's contributions, required under this chapter from such employer, shall be void. No employer shall directly or indirectly make or require or accept any deduction from wages to finance the employer's contributions required from him, or require or accept any waiver of any right hereunder by any individual in his employ. Any employer or officer or agent of an employer who violates any provision of this section shall, for each offense, be fined not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or be imprisoned for not more than six (6) months, or both.
MS Code § 71-5-537 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 71 - Labor and Industry|Chapter 5 - Unemployment Compensation|Article 11 - Benefits|§ 71-5-537. Limitation of fees

 No individual claiming benefits shall be charged fees of any kind in any proceeding under this chapter by the board of review, the commission, their representatives, or by any court or any officer thereof. Any individual claiming benefits in any proceedings before the commission, the board of review, their representatives, or a court may be represented by counsel or other duly authorized agent; but no such counsel or agents shall either charge or receive for such services more than an amount approved by the board of review. Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, for each such offense, be fined not less than Fifty Dollars ($50.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or imprisoned for not more than six (6) months, or both.
MS Code § 71-5-539 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 71 - Labor and Industry|Chapter 5 - Unemployment Compensation|Article 11 - Benefits|§ 71-5-539. No assignment of benefits; exemptions

 Any assignment, pledge or incumbrance of any right to benefits which are or may become due or payable under this chapter shall be void. Such rights to benefits shall be exempt from levy, execution, attachment or any other remedy whatsoever provided for the collection of debt; and benefits received by any individual, so long as they are not mingled with other funds of the recipient, shall be exempt from any remedy whatsoever for the collection of all debts except debts incurred for necessities furnished to such individual or his spouse or dependents during the time when such individual was unemployed. Any waiver of any exemption provided in this section shall be void. This section does not apply to the deduction from benefits provided by Section 71-5-516.
MS Code § 71-5-543 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 71 - Labor and Industry|Chapter 5 - Unemployment Compensation|Article 11 - Benefits|§ 71-5-543. Authorization to waive recovery of benefits paid to ineligible persons under certain circumstances

  Except as otherwise provided in this section, the executive director of the department may waive recovery of benefits paid under this chapter to a person if the person is subsequently found to be ineligible for the benefit and the benefits were paid as a direct result of unemployment caused by a natural disaster which is declared by the President of the United States in accordance with Section 401 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act. All waivers shall be granted based upon a consistent methodology and shall include consideration of ability to repay and other similar considerations.   The waiver authorized in subsection (1) of this section shall not be granted if:   The individual receiving the benefit is found to be guilty of fraud involving filing for, or receipt of, the benefits; or   The size of fund index (as defined in Section 71-5-355) for the year in which a request for a waiver is made is less than five-tenths (.5).     All waiver requests shall be considered on a case by case basis.
MS Code § 73-3-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 3 - Attorneys at Law|Article 1 - Admission and Conduct of Attorneys|§ 73-3-25. Admission of lawyers from other states

 Any lawyer from another state whose requirements for admission to the bar are equivalent to those of this state, who has practiced not less than five (5) years in a state where he was then admitted may be admitted to the practice in this state upon taking and passing such examination as to his knowledge of law as may be prescribed by rules adopted by the Board of Bar Admissions and approved by the Supreme Court and upon complying with the other requirements as set out in the laws and rules governing admission to the bar. Provided, however, the laws of the state from which the applicant comes grant similar privileges to the applicants from this state.   Any lawyer from another state desiring to be admitted to practice in Mississippi must make application to the Board of Bar Admissions. Such applicant shall present to the bar evidence of his good standing in the state from which he came, including a certificate from the clerk of the highest appellate court of the state from which he came, and from two (2) members of the bar of such state, certifying to his qualifications, good standing and moral character of the applicant, and may require the submission of additional evidence by the applicant. Upon satisfactory proof of the applicant's qualifications and upon the applicant's compliance with the requirements of this section, the board shall issue a certificate of admission to the applicant, as prescribed in Section 73-3-2(8). Each such applicant shall pay an application fee prescribed by the Board of Bar Admissions according to Section 73-3-2(7).
MS Code § 73-3-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 3 - Attorneys at Law|Article 1 - Admission and Conduct of Attorneys|§ 73-3-31. Persons excepted from educational requirements

 The educational requirements both as to general education and legal education shall not apply to any person who may have graduated from a law school prior to October 1, 1954.
MS Code § 73-3-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 3 - Attorneys at Law|Article 1 - Admission and Conduct of Attorneys|§ 73-3-35. Oath in each court

 Every attorney and counselor at law, before he or she shall be permitted to practice, shall produce his or her license in each court where he or she intends to practice, and in the presence of such court, shall take the following oath or affirmation to wit:   "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will demean myself, as an attorney and counselor of this court, according to the best of my learning and ability, and with all good fidelity as well to the court as to the client; that I will use no falsehood nor delay any person's cause for lucre or malice, and that I will support the Constitution of the State of Mississippi and the Constitution of the United States. So help me God."   And thereupon the name of such person, with the date of his or her admission, shall be entered in a roll or book to be kept in each court for that purpose.
MS Code § 73-3-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 3 - Attorneys at Law|Article 1 - Admission and Conduct of Attorneys|§ 73-3-37. Duties of attorneys

 It is the duty of attorneys:    To support the Constitution and laws of this state and of the United States;   To maintain the respect due to courts of justice and judicial officers;   To employ for the purpose of maintaining the causes confided to them, such means only as are consistent with truth, and never to seek to mislead by any artifice or false statement of the law;   To maintain inviolate the confidence and, at every peril to themselves, to preserve the secrets of their clients;   To abstain from all offensive personalities, and to advance no fact prejudicial to the honor or reputation of a party or witness, unless required by the justice of the cause with which they are charged;   To encourage neither the commencement nor continuance of an action or proceeding from any motives of passion or personal interest;   Never to reject, for any consideration personal to themselves, the cause of the defenseless or oppressed.
MS Code § 73-3-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 3 - Attorneys at Law|Article 1 - Admission and Conduct of Attorneys|§ 73-3-41. Persons convicted of felonies barred from admission; disbarment of licensed attorneys convicted of felonies

 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 the State of Mississippi in which a licensed attorney shall have been convicted of a felony, other than manslaughter or a violation of the Internal Revenue Code, shall enter an order disbarring the attorney.
MS Code § 73-3-43 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 3 - Attorneys at Law|Article 1 - Admission and Conduct of Attorneys|§ 73-3-43. Clerks, sheriffs and other officers prohibited

 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 reward for any such services rendered during his continuance in such position; and any person offending herein shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, to be fined in a sum not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) and be removed from office; but this shall not prohibit the clerk of any court of record or the sheriff of any county from practicing in any of the courts so far as to enable them to bring to conclusion civil cases in which such clerk or sheriff are employed and which are actually filed and pending at the time when such clerk or sheriff is appointed or nominated in a party primary and subsequently elected to office.
MS Code § 73-3-45 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 3 - Attorneys at Law|Article 1 - Admission and Conduct of Attorneys|§ 73-3-45. Restrictions of certain persons to practice law

 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 of such officer, or in any certiorari to any such officer for the same, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, shall be fined not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or be imprisoned not more than six (6) months, or both.
MS Code § 73-3-47 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 3 - Attorneys at Law|Article 1 - Admission and Conduct of Attorneys|§ 73-3-47. Partner of justice court judge prohibited from acting as attorney before such judge; penalty

 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 be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, shall be fined not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or be imprisoned not more than six (6) months, or both.
MS Code § 73-3-49 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 3 - Attorneys at Law|Article 1 - Admission and Conduct of Attorneys|§ 73-3-49. Partner of district attorney or county attorney not to defend in certain criminal cases

 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, or partner, to appear and defend in any of the courts of that county any person charged with a misdemeanor or felony, and this section shall apply, even though such association may exist only for the transaction of civil business in a particular court.   Any attorney violating this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction shall be fined in the sum of not less than Ten Dollars ($10.00) nor more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), and shall forfeit his license to practice law in this state.
MS Code § 73-3-51 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 3 - Attorneys at Law|Article 1 - Admission and Conduct of Attorneys|§ 73-3-51. Attorney general and district attorneys and their law partners not to accept employment from corporations of certain kind

 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 as attorney or counselor at law any railroad corporation, street railway corporation, telephone or telegraph corporation, express company, or other common carrier, or public service corporation whatsoever, and any attorney violating this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, shall be fined in a sum not less than Ten Dollars ($10.00) nor more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), and shall forfeit his license to practice law in this state.
MS Code § 73-3-55 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 3 - Attorneys at Law|Article 1 - Admission and Conduct of Attorneys|§ 73-3-55. Unlawful to practice law without license; certain abstract companies may certify titles

 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 the provisions of Section 97-23-43. Any person who shall for fee or reward or promise, directly or indirectly, write or dictate any paper or instrument of writing, to be filed in any cause or proceeding pending, or to be instituted in any court in this state, or give any counsel or advice therein, or who shall write or dictate any bill of sale, deed of conveyance, deed of trust, mortgage, contract, or last will and testament, or shall make or certify to any abstract of title to real estate other than his own or in which he may own an interest, shall be held to be engaged in the practice of law. This section shall not, however, prevent title or abstract of title guaranty companies incorporated under the laws of this state from making abstract or certifying titles to real estate where it acts through some person as agent, authorized under the laws of the State of Mississippi to practice law; nor shall this section prevent any abstract company chartered under the laws of the State of Mississippi with a paid-up capital of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00) or more from making or certifying to abstracts of title to real estate through the president, secretary or other principal officer of such company.
MS Code § 73-3-57 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 3 - Attorneys at Law|Article 1 - Admission and Conduct of Attorneys|§ 73-3-57. Unlawful to encourage litigation

 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 hands, or in the hands of any partnership of which he is a member, a demand of any kind, for the purpose of bringing suit or making claim against another, or to employ a person to search for and procure clients to be brought to such attorney.
MS Code § 73-3-59 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 3 - Attorneys at Law|Article 1 - Admission and Conduct of Attorneys|§ 73-3-59. Unlawful to encourage litigation; penalty

 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 attorney at law, compensation for services in seeking out or placing in the hands of an attorney a demand of any kind for suit or a compromise, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
MS Code § 73-3-101 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 3 - Attorneys at Law|Article 3 - Bar Association|§ 73-3-101. Bar association created

 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.
MS Code § 73-3-103 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 3 - Attorneys at Law|Article 3 - Bar Association|§ 73-3-103. All lawyers members

 All resident persons now or hereafter admitted to practice law in the state shall be members of this association.
MS Code § 73-3-105 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 3 - Attorneys at Law|Article 3 - Bar Association|§ 73-3-105. Bar association; officers; bylaws

 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 office for the officers and members of the Board of Commissioners, providing for the times and methods of the election of officers and members of the Board of Commissioners, authorizing sections of the bar, providing for committees through which the activities of the bar would be carried on, prescribing the methods by which the time for the annual meetings of the bar and of the Board of Commissioners shall be set, prescribing the manner in which special meetings of the officers, the board, and the bar may be called and held, authorizing the board to elect an executive committee with a determination of its composition and what powers may be delegated to such executive committee, and covering other proper subjects. Such bylaws shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter.
MS Code § 73-3-107 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 3 - Attorneys at Law|Article 3 - Bar Association|§ 73-3-107. Governing board

 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.
MS Code § 73-3-109 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 3 - Attorneys at Law|Article 3 - Bar Association|§ 73-3-109. Governing board; quorum

 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 larger portion of the membership.
MS Code § 73-3-111 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 3 - Attorneys at Law|Article 3 - Bar Association|§ 73-3-111. Secretary; election; term of office; duties

 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 adopt such means as he thinks best to make the rolls accurate and complete. There shall be made a separate roll for each circuit court district.   The secretary shall keep minutes of all meetings of the Board of Commissioners and such minutes, signed by the chairman and secretary, shall be the evidence of the proceedings had and actions taken by the board. He shall also keep the minutes of each meeting of the bar, which minutes signed by him and by the presiding officer shall be evidence of the proceedings had and actions taken by the bar.