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Rule 3.1: Meritorious Claims and ContentionsAdopted, Effective Jan. 1, 2008 ADVOCATE
A lawyer shall not bring or defend a proceeding, or assert or controvert an issue therein, unless there is a basis in law and fact for doing so that is not frivolous, which includes a good faith argument for an extension, modification or reversal of existing law. A lawyer for the defendant in a criminal proceeding, or the respondent in a proceeding that could result in incarceration or institutionalization, may nevertheless so defend the proceeding as to require that every element of the case be established. NEW HAMPSHIRE COMMENT TO PROPOSED RULE 3.1 Institutionalization is treated as comparable to incarceration for purposes of Rule 3.1.
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