I do solemnly swear:

I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Iowa;

I will maintain the respect due to courts of justice and judicial officers;

I will not counsel or maintain any suit or proceeding which shall appear to me to be unjust, nor any defense except the defense of a person charged with a public offense;

I will employ for the purpose of maintaining the causes confided to me such means only as are consistent with truth, and will never seek to mislead the judges by any artifice or false statement of fact or law;

I will maintain the confidence, and, at any peril to myself, will preserve the secret of my client;

I will abstain from all offensive personality, and advance no fact prejudicial to the honor or reputation of a party or witness, unless required by the justice of the cause with which I am charged;

I will refuse to encourage either the commencement or continuance of an action proceeding from any motive of passion or interest;

I will never reject, from any consideration personal to myself, the cause of the defenseless or oppressed; and

I will faithfully discharge the duties of an attorney and counselor at law to the best of my ability and in accordance with the ethics of my profession, So Help Me God.