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Setting up a recusal argument?  GOP senators send Elena Kagan a letter asking if she participated in the Obama administration's planned response to the constitutional challenges to Obamacare.  (From CNS)       . . . . .       Jack Marshall, at Ethics Alarms, looks at "The Ethics of Using a Facebook Mole."       . . . . .       In an ordinary discipline matter out of Georgia, In re Maddux, we can read about a personal injury lawyer who kept making mistakes and blew the statute of limitations -- and then paid out the client's "settlement" from the lawyer's own money.  The cover-up didn't work.  I have heard about that scenario a handful of times, including with forged judgments, settlement agreements, etc.  I suppose the lawyer hopes that once the client receives the cash all the problems will disappear.       . . . . . .       "Legal Training System Failing Law Students."  But this article is about the UK.       . . . . .        From ALM, O'Melveny sues former client (maker of Bratz dolls) for $10.2 million in legal fees.       . . . . .        

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