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Casemaker. There is
no charge for active North Dakota Bar members to use the Casemaker
electronic library. The library includes state and federal case law,
the North Dakota Code of Laws, ethics advisory opinions, court rules,
and North Dakota Lawyer
articles.
Users
have the ability to view and browse a table of contents for all to
statutes, codes, rules, and other materials. Search for a desired
document without knowing the citation number or even the official
document name.
Access Casemaker through SBAND.
North Dakota Supreme Court. The website of
the North Dakota Supreme Court has been named
the Best Judicial Website by the North American Association of Law Libraries,
and has been named the Best Judicial Branch Site by the Council of State
Governments.
Most
Recent North Dakota Opinions
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Proceedure
Committee Minutes
North Dakota
Pattern Jury Instructions can get you started on jury instructions
for your case.
The
North Dakota Century Code on line database.
The Century Code is the codification of all general and permanent law enacted
since statehood. The table of contents to this on-line version of the Century
Code is derived from the listing of titles of the Code.
To copy portions of the Century Code into your word processor: (1) select the text select button (the button with "abc"
or "T" on it); (2) highlight the text you want to copy; and (3) select the copy
button (the button with two pages on it). This will place the selected text on
your clipboard for pasting into your word processing document.
The North Dakota Rules of Professional Conduct were
substantially amended in 2006.
A summary
of the amendments is available.
In addition to recommending that "consent in writing" be
included in a number of the rules, the primary changes include the
following:
Revision of Rule 1.6, to expand the
circumstances under which lawyers are required or permitted to disclose
confidential information to prevent death, substantial bodily harm, or
financial loss to others.
Revision of Rule 1.10 to provide that
conflicts resulting from a lawyer's personal interests not be imputed to
members of the lawyer's firm.
Revision of Rule 1.13, regarding a
lawyer's disclosure of confidential information to prevent likely
substantial injury to an organizational client;
Adoption of Rule 1.18, to describe
lawyers' duties to potential clients;
Revision of Rule 3.3 to specify that,
if a lawyer learns that she has offered false testimony of a client, the
lawyer may not use that false testimony;
Adoption of Rule 4.5 to guide lawyers
who receive inadvertent transmissions of documents;
Revision of Rules 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3
concerning the responsibilities of lawyers who are partners in a law firm
or who have comparable managerial authority within a law firm.
SBAND website
->click on the
"Resources for Lawyers" and then on "Ethics Opinions" , where
- You can find all the North Dakota Rules of Professional Responsibility
-- and ---
- You can search all State Bar Association of North Dakota ethics
opinions by key word as well as by rule number.
->Click on the
pattern jury instructions,
which includes cross references to cases cited, and
(with links!) to the NDCC statutes cited.
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Federal
District Court for North Dakota
The Federal Court's manual for attorneys on the
use of the
electronic courtroom equipment is archived by BOC, here, for your convenience.
Effective January 1, 2006, the use of Electronic Case Filing (ECF)
was required in the district of North Dakota. Attorneys must
file papers electronically. Administrative policies
governing electronic filing are at
www.ndd.uscourts.gov/CMECF/CM_ECF-Policy.pdf.
Attorneys must ensure that sensitive personal identifiers are
redacted or omitted from any document that the user files with the Federal
Court, because the public does have remote electronic access. These prohibited
identifiers include:
Minors’ Names – unless only using only minor’s
initials.
Social Security Numbers – unless only using last four digits.
Dates of Birth – unless year of birth only is used.
Financial Account Numbers – unless only last four digits are
used.
Home Addresses – unless only city and state are used
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