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: Legal Ethics ForumLegal ethics news (September 5, 2010)
- From Texas Lawyer (ALM): The Texas Department of Insurance wants insurers to notify insureds when a settlement is made. The fear is that lawyers are increasingly stealing the settlements and the insureds never even know the payment had been made.
- Tennessee adopts a pro bono emeritus program, whereby, if I am reading it correctly, lawyers from other jurisdictions can do some pro bono work in Tennessee under the supervision of Tennessee lawyers.
- From Professional Responsibility (Prof. Alberto Bernabe): a suspended lawyer contrives to practice behind the scenes -- but gets busted.
- In Orlando, criminal defense counsel named a witness's lawyer as a potential witness, and the lawyer doesn't want to be disqualified. It's a small, ordinary matter, but the video clip might be useful in PR classes for teaching MR 3.7 and the criminal defense lawyer's duty of zeal/diligence.
- ABA Journal: Coaching witnesses through foot tapping?
Full post as published by Legal Ethics Forum on September 05, 2010 (boomark / email).
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