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AR Code § 16-22-208 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 22 - Attorneys At Law|Subchapter 2 - Admission and Practice|§ 16-22-208. Barratry or maintenance — Disciplinary action by circuit and chancery courts

 (a) Any person, not a member of the Bar of Arkansas, who shall commit or who shall conspire to commit any act defined by the law of this state to be barratry or maintenance, or who shall solicit for himself or for another person who is not a member of the Bar of Arkansas in any manner or by any method the handling of claims or litigation involving injuries to persons or damage to property, in such a manner as would constitute the practice of law, shall be deemed to have submitted himself to the personal jurisdiction of any circuit or chancery court having territorial jurisdiction of the county where the act was committed for disciplinary proceedings in the same manner as if he were a member of the Bar of Arkansas.  (b) In addition to any other lawful action the court might take in proceedings under this section, the court shall be authorized to enter an injunction restraining the commission of any acts mentioned in subsection (a) of this section and may enforce the injunction with contempt proceedings as provided by law in other cases.  (c) It is declared to be the intent of this section to be in aid of and subordinate to the right of the Supreme Court of Arkansas to regulate and define the practice of law and prevent and prohibit the unauthorized or unlawful practice thereof by appropriate rules, orders, and penalties.
AR Code § 16-22-209 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 22 - Attorneys At Law|Subchapter 2 - Admission and Practice|§ 16-22-209. Practicing without license — Contempt of court

 Every person who shall attempt to practice law in any court of record without being licensed, sworn, and registered, as required in this subchapter, shall be deemed guilty of a contempt of court and shall be punished as in other cases of contempt.
AR Code § 16-22-210 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 22 - Attorneys At Law|Subchapter 2 - Admission and Practice|§ 16-22-210. Clerk or sheriff not to act as attorney

 No clerk of any court of record in this state or sheriff, while he continues to act as such, shall under any pretense whatever act as an attorney at law in the court of which he is clerk or in the county in which he is sheriff.
AR Code § 16-22-212 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 22 - Attorneys At Law|Subchapter 2 - Admission and Practice|§ 16-22-212. Disbarment in another state — Effects

 (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to practice law or attempt to practice law in any court in this state or to solicit business as or in any manner represent himself or herself to be an attorney at law when such a person so practicing or attempting to practice law or soliciting business as or representing himself or herself to be an attorney at law has previously been disbarred from the practice of law in any other state of the United States of America while a resident of that state.  (b)  (1) No person shall be admitted to practice law in this state who has been disbarred from the practice of law in any other state.  (2) The disbarment of any person from the practice of law in any other state shall operate as a disbarment of the person from the practice of law in this state under any license, permit, or enrollment issued to the person by any court in this state prior to his or her disbarment in the other state.  (3) A certified copy of the order, judgment, or decree of the disbarment in the other state shall be prima facie evidence of the disbarment in the other state when filed in any court in this state.    (c) It shall be unlawful for any judge of any court of record, district judge, mayor, or other judge or magistrate to knowingly permit any person to practice law or attempt to practice law, or to appear in any manner as an attorney at law before him or her or in his or her court in violation of any of the terms and provisions of this section.  (d)  (1) Any person violating the terms of this section shall be guilty of a violation and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than five hundred dollars ($500) and not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000).  (2) Each violation of this section shall constitute a separate offense.
AR Code § 16-22-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 22 - Attorneys At Law|Subchapter 3 - Rights and Liabilities|§ 16-22-301. Legislative intent

 It is hereby found and determined by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas that the Supreme Court, in Henry, Walden, and Davis v. Goodman, 294 Ark. 25 (1987), limited the existing Attorney's Lien Law by allowing only a quantum meruit recovery in a case in which the attorney was dismissed by the client; that the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Attorney Lien Law is contrary to what was intended by the enactment of Acts 59 and 306 of 1941, the Attorney Lien Law; that an attorney should have the right to rely on his contract with his client; and that the Attorney's Lien Law should be reenacted to protect the contractual rights of attorneys. Therefore, it is the intent of §§ 16-22-302 — 16-22-304 to allow an attorney to obtain a lien for services based on his or her agreement with his or her client and to provide for compensation in case of a settlement or compromise without the consent of the attorney.
AR Code § 16-22-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 22 - Attorneys At Law|Subchapter 3 - Rights and Liabilities|§ 16-22-302. Compensation governed by contract

 The compensation of an attorney at law, solicitor, or counselor for his services is governed by agreement, expressed or implied, which is not restrained by law.
AR Code § 16-22-303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 22 - Attorneys At Law|Subchapter 3 - Rights and Liabilities|§ 16-22-303. Compromise or settlement without attorney's consent — Effect

 (a) Any agreement, contract, or arrangement between litigants or any conduct of the one seeking affirmative relief at the instance and procurement of his adversary which deprives the litigant of his asserted right against his adversary shall constitute a compromise or settlement of his cause of action within the meaning of this section.  (b)  (1) In case a compromise or settlement is made by the parties litigant to the action after service of the notice by certified mail and before the filing of suit, or if made after suit is filed upon the action and such compromise or settlement is made without the consent of such attorney at law, solicitor, or counselor, the court of proper jurisdiction shall, upon motion, enter judgment for a reasonable fee or compensation against all of the parties to the compromise or settlement so made without the consent of the attorney at law, solicitor, or counselor, and the amount of the fee or compensation shall not be necessarily limited to the amount, if any, of the compromise or settlement between the parties litigant.  (2) If the compromise or settlement is effected by an agent or agents of such party, the judgment shall be entered against the agent or agents as well as against those parties from whom the attorney at law, solicitor, or counselor is entitled to judgment for the fee or compensation, and, if the compromise or settlement is made with the knowledge or advice of the attorney at law, solicitor, or counselor of those parties from whom the attorney at law, solicitor, or counselor is entitled to judgment for the fee or compensation, the court shall also enter judgment against such attorneys at law, solicitors, or counselors as well.
AR Code § 16-22-305 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 22 - Attorneys At Law|Subchapter 3 - Rights and Liabilities|§ 16-22-305. Unnecessary costs satisfied by attorney

 If any attorney at law or other person admitted to conduct causes in any court in the State of Arkansas appears to have multiplied the proceedings in any cause before such court, so as to increase costs unreasonably and vexatiously, he shall be required, by order of the court, to satisfy any excess of costs so increased.
AR Code § 16-22-306 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 22 - Attorneys At Law|Subchapter 3 - Rights and Liabilities|§ 16-22-306. Negligence of attorney resulting in dismissal — Liability for costs and damages

 If any suit in any court of record in this state is dismissed on account of the negligence of any attorney at law, or for his nonattendance at the court without having a just and reasonable excuse for such absence, it shall be at the costs of the attorney at law. Such attorney at law shall be liable for all damages his client may have sustained by the dismissal or by any other neglect by the attorney at law of his duty, in an action in any court within this state having jurisdiction thereof.
AR Code § 16-22-307 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 22 - Attorneys At Law|Subchapter 3 - Rights and Liabilities|§ 16-22-307. Failure to pay over money — Judgment for money and costs — Penalized by court

 If any attorney at law receiving money for his client refuses or fails to pay the money over on demand, the attorney at law may be proceeded against in a summary way on motion before the circuit court, either in the county in which he may reside or in the county in which he received the money. The court shall render judgment against him for the amount of money received by the attorney at law for the use of his client, with costs, and he shall be further dealt with as the court may deem just under the provisions of this subchapter.
AR Code § 16-22-308 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 22 - Attorneys At Law|Subchapter 3 - Rights and Liabilities|§ 16-22-308. Attorney's fees in certain civil actions

 In any civil action to recover on an open account, statement of account, account stated, promissory note, bill, negotiable instrument, or contract relating to the purchase or sale of goods, wares, or merchandise, or for labor or services, or breach of contract, unless otherwise provided by law or the contract which is the subject matter of the action, the prevailing party may be allowed a reasonable attorney's fee to be assessed by the court and collected as costs.
AR Code § 16-22-309 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 22 - Attorneys At Law|Subchapter 3 - Rights and Liabilities|§ 16-22-309. Attorney's fees in actions lacking justiciable issue

 (a)  (1) In any civil action in which the court having jurisdiction finds that there was a complete absence of a justiciable issue of either law or fact raised by the losing party or his attorney, the court shall award an attorney's fee in an amount not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000), or ten percent (10%) of the amount in controversy, whichever is less, to the prevailing party unless a voluntary dismissal is filed or the pleadings are amended as to any nonjusticiable issue within a reasonable time after the attorney or party filing the dismissal or the amended pleadings knew, or reasonably should have known, that he would not prevail.  (2) This section shall not apply to actions arising out of a written instrument or agreement which entitles the prevailing party to an award of reasonable attorney's fees.    (b) In order to find an action, claim, setoff, counterclaim, or defense to be lacking a justiciable issue of law or fact, the court must find that the action, claim, setoff, counterclaim, or defense was commenced, used, or continued in bad faith solely for purposes of harassing or maliciously injuring another or delaying adjudication without just cause or that the party or the party's attorney knew, or should have known, that the action, claim, setoff, counterclaim, or defense was without any reasonable basis in law or equity and could not be supported by a good faith argument for an extension, modification, or reversal of existing law.  (c) In awarding attorney's fees, the court may pronounce its decision on the fees at the conclusion of the trial or special proceedings without written motion and with or without presentation of additional evidence. The judgment for attorney's fees, if any, shall be included in the final judgment entered in the action.  (d) On appeal, the question as to whether there was a complete absence of a justiciable issue shall be determined de novo on the record of the trial court alone.
AR Code § 16-22-310 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 22 - Attorneys At Law|Subchapter 3 - Rights and Liabilities|§ 16-22-310. Liability for civil damages

 (a) No person licensed to practice law in Arkansas and no partnership or corporation of Arkansas licensed attorneys or any of its employees, partners, members, officers, or shareholders shall be liable to persons not in privity of contract with the person, partnership, or corporation for civil damages resulting from acts, omissions, decisions, or other conduct in connection with professional services performed by the person, partnership, or corporation, except for:  (1) Acts, omissions, decisions, or conduct that constitutes fraud or intentional misrepresentations; or  (2)  (A) Other acts, omissions, decisions, or conduct if the person, partnership, or corporation was aware that a primary intent of the client was for the professional services to benefit or influence the particular person bringing the action.  (B) For the purposes of subdivision (a)(2)(A) of this section, if the person, partnership, or corporation identifies in writing to the client those persons who are intended to rely on the services and sends a copy of the writing or similar statement to those persons identified in the writing or statement, then the person, partnership, or corporation or any of its employees, partners, members, officers, or shareholders may be held liable only to the persons intended to so rely, in addition to those persons in privity of contract with the person, partnership, or corporation.      (b) This section shall apply only to acts, omissions, decisions, or other conduct in connection with professional services occurring or rendered on or after April 6, 1987.  (c) The appointment of an attorney as a successor trustee or attorney-in-fact as provided in § 18-50-101 et seq. shall not expand the liability of the attorney, the entity, or partnership employing the attorney, or the firm in which the attorney is a member or partner beyond the liability provided in this section.
AR Code § 16-22-311 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 22 - Attorneys At Law|Subchapter 3 - Rights and Liabilities|§ 16-22-311. Reports of visits with incarcerated indigent clients

 (a)  (1) An attorney at law representing an indigent client who is incarcerated in any county jail, city jail, juvenile detention facility, or other facility operated by the Division of Youth Services in the State of Arkansas shall make a report of personal visits with the client.  (2) The report shall be on a sign-in document to be provided by the correctional facility or criminal detention facility in which the client is incarcerated.  (3) The sign-in document shall be designed in order to allow the attorney to record:  (A) The date of the visit;  (B) The time the attorney is signing in for the visit;  (C) The name of the inmate visited; and  (D) The time the attorney is signing out after the visit.      (b)  (1) Each county jail, city jail, juvenile detention facility, or other detention facility operated by the division shall furnish a sign-in document for attorneys required to make a report under this section.  (2) The facilities shall maintain the reports for a period of one (1) year following the release, discharge, or transfer of an inmate represented by an attorney who is required to make a report under this section.
AR Code § 16-22-401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 22 - Attorneys At Law|Subchapter 4 - Suspension and Disbarment|§ 16-22-401. Grounds for removal or suspension

 Any attorney who is guilty of any felony or infamous crime, of improperly retaining his client's money, of any malpractice, deceit, or misdemeanor in his professional capacity, is an habitual drunkard, or is guilty of any ungentlemanly conduct in the practice of his profession may be removed or suspended from practice, upon charges exhibited against him, and proceedings thereon had as provided in this subchapter.
AR Code § 16-22-402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 22 - Attorneys At Law|Subchapter 4 - Suspension and Disbarment|§ 16-22-402. Venue

 The charges shall be exhibited in the county in which the offense has been committed, or in which the accused may reside.
AR Code § 16-22-403 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 22 - Attorneys At Law|Subchapter 4 - Suspension and Disbarment|§ 16-22-403. Time for hearing

 The court in which the charges may be exhibited shall fix a time for the hearing of the charges, allowing a reasonable time to notify the accused.
AR Code § 16-22-404 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 22 - Attorneys At Law|Subchapter 4 - Suspension and Disbarment|§ 16-22-404. Service of citation

 (a) The clerk of the court in which the charges may be exhibited shall issue a citation, notifying the accused to appear at the time and place fixed for the hearing and answer the charges exhibited against him. A copy of the charges shall be attached to the citation.  (b)  (1) The citation may be served in any county in this state.  (2) The citation shall be served in the same manner as a summons in suits at law, and the service shall be at least ten (10) days before the return day thereof.
AR Code § 16-22-405 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 22 - Attorneys At Law|Subchapter 4 - Suspension and Disbarment|§ 16-22-405. Failure to appear — Compelling appearance

 If the accused fails to appear according to the command of the citation, his appearance may be compelled by attachment, or the court may proceed ex parte.
AR Code § 16-22-406 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 22 - Attorneys At Law|Subchapter 4 - Suspension and Disbarment|§ 16-22-406. Other charges — Suspension only

 Upon charges other than a conviction for an indictable offense, the court shall have power only to suspend the accused from practice until the facts shall be ascertained in the manner prescribed in this subchapter.
AR Code § 16-22-407 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 22 - Attorneys At Law|Subchapter 4 - Suspension and Disbarment|§ 16-22-407. Limitation of proceedings

 If the charges are for an indictable offense and no indictment is found or, if found, is not prosecuted to trial within six (6) months, the suspension shall be discontinued unless the delay is produced by the absence or the procurement of the accused, in which case the suspension may continue until the final decision.
AR Code § 16-22-408 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 22 - Attorneys At Law|Subchapter 4 - Suspension and Disbarment|§ 16-22-408. Record of conviction or acquittal of offense as evidence

 The record of conviction or acquittal of any indictable offense shall in all cases be conclusive evidence of the facts, and the court shall proceed thereon accordingly.
AR Code § 16-22-409 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 22 - Attorneys At Law|Subchapter 4 - Suspension and Disbarment|§ 16-22-409. Trial when offense not indictable

 When the matter charged is not indictable, the trial of the facts alleged shall be had in the court in which the charges are pending. The trial shall be by jury. If the accused fails to appear or, upon appearing, does not require a jury, the trial shall be by the court sitting without a jury.
AR Code § 16-22-410 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 22 - Attorneys At Law|Subchapter 4 - Suspension and Disbarment|§ 16-22-410. Verification of charges

 All charges exhibited under this subchapter shall be verified by affidavit and shall be prosecuted by the prosecuting attorney, prosecuting in the district in which the charges are pending.
AR Code § 16-22-411 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 22 - Attorneys At Law|Subchapter 4 - Suspension and Disbarment|§ 16-22-411. Judgment

 (a) In all cases of conviction, the court shall pronounce judgment of removal or suspension, according to the facts found.  (b) Every judgment of removal or suspension made in pursuance of this subchapter shall operate, while it continues in force, as a removal or suspension from practice in all the courts of this state.
AR Code § 16-22-412 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 22 - Attorneys At Law|Subchapter 4 - Suspension and Disbarment|§ 16-22-412. Conviction in another state — Effect

 (a) In all cases of conviction for felony or other infamous crime of any attorney at law in any other state or territory of the United States, such conviction, on the production of a copy of the record thereof, shall have the same effect as if such attorney had been convicted in this state.  (b) In all cases of conviction of any of the crimes specified in the preceding section, if the attorney shall have been licensed in this state, after such conviction, his license shall be revoked in the same manner as if the conviction had been had after the granting of such license.
AR Code § 16-22-413 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 22 - Attorneys At Law|Subchapter 4 - Suspension and Disbarment|§ 16-22-413. Review by Supreme Court

 In all cases of a trial of charges, the accused may except to any decision of the court and may prosecute an appeal to the Supreme Court, or writ of error, in all respects as in actions at law.