(B) When appearing in this United States district court, all counsel and all persons at counsel table should conduct themselves in the following customary and traditional manner:
(2) Stand when the jury enters or retires from the courtroom.
(3) Stand when addressing, or being addressed by, the court.
(4) Address all remarks to the court, not to opposing counsel.
(5) Avoid disparaging remarks or acrimony toward opposing counsel and remain wholly detached from any ill feeling between litigants and witnesses.
(6) Refer to all persons, including witnesses, other counsel and the parties, by their surnames and not by their first or given names.
(7) Counsel should request permission before approaching the bench; and any document counsel wish to have the court examine should be handed to the clerk.
(8) Unless opposing counsel has previously shown exhibits, any exhibit offered in evidence should, at the time of such offer, be handed to opposing counsel.
(9) In making objections, counsel should state only the legal grounds for the objection and should withhold all further comment or argument unless elaboration is requested by the court.
(10) In examining a witness, counsel shall not repeat or echo the answer given by the witness.
(11) Offers of, or requests for, a stipulation should be made privately, not within the hearing of the jury.
(12) In opening statements and in arguments to the jury, counsel shall not express personal knowledge or opinion concerning any matter in issue, shall not read or purport to read from deposition or trial manuscripts, and shall not suggest to the jury, directly or indirectly, that it may or should request transcripts or the reading of any testimony by the reporter.
(13) Counsel shall admonish and discourage all persons at counsel table from making gestures, facial expressions, audible comments, or the like, as manifestations of approval or disapproval during the testimony of witnesses, or at any other time.
(14) Smoking, eating, food and drink are prohibited in the courtroom at any time.
