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Lawyers were convicted for their role in a tax shelter fraud.       .  .  .  .  .       Here's a glimpse into the politics between a one-year state bar president and the longer term appointees and bureaucrats.  As the article notes, the State Bar of California faced some crises this year, which presumably prompted decisive action by the president.       .  .  .  .  .       Nuestras Voces Latina says that Rachel Moran "will be the first Latina dean of a top-ranked U.S. law school."       .  .  .  .  .       When a lawyer allegedly commits malpractice at a firm that's later acquired, should the acquiror firm contribute to any malpractice judgment?  No, says a New York court.  But the losing side vows to appeal.  More here, from Andrew Bluestone.       .  .  .  .  .       Someone who doesn't like Wal-Mart leaked a confidential memo from Akin Gump to Wal-Mart, allegedly warning the company about the dangers of a workplace gender discrimination case.       .  .  .  .  .       The DOJ's criminal probe of BP may stall the civil suits.  (As I posted earlier, you can't announce a criminal probe and not expect some "lawyering up.")       .  .  .  .  .        I got a kick out of how this Chinese law blog describes us.       .  .  .  .  .       In the UK, black and minority ethnic lawyers claim that they are being denied malpractice insurance.       .  .  .  .  .       In this unpublished California case, a convicted defendant sued a public interest group, California Appellate Project, for negligent supervision of an appointed lawyer.  His suit would normally be dismissed for failure to first obtain reversal of his conviction, but because his habeas is still pending the malpractice case will be stayed.  (Couldn't that last many years?)  I wonder how often public interest law groups get sued for malpractice. Anyone know?       .  .  .  .  .       Law Firm Risk Management looks at how you can clear a lateral's conflicts without breaching the lateral's duty to her clients.

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