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Cover legal ethics, bar discipline, business practice, the tension between the bar and the academy, ethical theory, and comparative legal professions.
By Alan Childress, Mike Frisch, and Jeff Lipshaw

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Last Entry: April 01, 2011 at 14:56:26

Legal Ethics in Financial Services: CLE in New York City June 3

Posted on May 19, 2008
The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, SIFMA, offers a 2-hour CLE Legal Ethics Workshop on Tues., June 3, 2008, in New York City. It focuses on ethical considerations for in-house counsel. Program and speakers here. [Alan Childress]

Not Too Late to Study Abroad in Greece and the Greek Isles Via Tulane Law's Summer School

Posted on May 19, 2008
Posted by Alan Childress Although Tulane's summer school program June 22-July 11 on the beautiful and car-free Isle of Spetses is almost full, I believe there are a few spots still open. And there are openings in either of the...

Useful Sites To Avoid Grading

Posted on May 19, 2008
Posted by Alan Childress (Cross-posted in an email from me to my gmail account and back again) I once saw an ad, for real, in the Berkeley student newspaper, touting "Procrastination Workshop. Pre-registration required." The great site electronic ephemera has...

Cautionary Tale of Leaving the "Track Changes" Unaccepted. Or, I Never Metadata I Didn't Like

Posted on May 19, 2008
Posted by Alan Childress From the law-tech website The Connected Lawyer comes an abject lesson in leaving metadata or similar residual thoughts intact when sending a document to a client, opposing counsel, or partner down the hall. (Our posts here,...

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ALI-ABA To Hold "Legal Ethics & Lawyer Websites" CLE By Phone Or Web On June 4

Posted on May 19, 2008
It's a one-hour remote CLE program on lawyer websites and blogging, and their ethical implications. It earns 1 to 1.2 ethics MCLE credits. It will be held live on Wed., June 4, 2008, 1:00 eastern. Topics include domain names, solicitation...

No De Facto Parenthood In Maryland

Posted on May 19, 2008
The Maryland Court of Appeals held today that Maryland law does not recognize the concept of de facto parenthood. One member of a committed, long-term same-sex relationship had adopted a child from India. After six years of raising the child...

Next Stop Graniteville

Posted on May 19, 2008
A lawyer who is admitted in Louisiana and South Carolina had practiced only in Louisiana but opened a South Carolina law office in order to solicit legal business in the wake of a train derailment in Graniteville South Carolina. After...

Reciprocal Sanction Imposed

Posted on May 19, 2008
The Kansas Supreme Court imposed an indefinite suspension as reciprocal discipline for a Missouri disbarment by default. The matter was delayed for two years because the disciplined lawyer had represented that he would move to set aside the Missouri sanction...

Criminal Conviction For Unauthorized Practice

Posted on May 19, 2008
An attorney admitted to practice in Kansas and Illinois was indefinitely suspended by the Kansas Supreme Court as a result of a criminal conviction for five counts of unauthorized practice in Minnesota, where the attorney was not admitted. The court....

Classroom Internet Access and the "5 Whys"

Posted on May 17, 2008
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw I considered giving this post an Onion-like title, something to the effect of "UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL PROPOSES LEAD DOME OVER HYDE PARK; DEAN LEVMORE DERIDES CITY-WIDE WIRELESS HOT SPOT AS 'ANTI-INTELLECTUAL.'" But Legal Profession...

"Lone Avenging Champion" Charged

Posted on May 17, 2008
An assistant state's attorney for Macon County Illinois has been charged with ethical violations based upon allegedly improper closing argument in a capital case. The convictions of two defendants were reversed based on a finding of misconduct by the prosecutor...

Trifecta Alleged

Posted on May 17, 2008
The Illinois ARDC has filed charges against a member of the bar who is alleged to have omitted his dismissal from medical school for poor scholarship in his (successful) application for admission to the University of Chicago Law School. It...

A Failed Gamble

Posted on May 17, 2008
The Kansas Supreme Court indefinitely suspended an attorney with the right to apply for reinstatement after six months for a pattern of failure to file and pay federal income taxes, resulting in a misdemeanor criminal conviction. He asserted mitigation on...

First Case Leads To Sanction

Posted on May 16, 2008
A lawyer who botched his first criminal case was suspended for a year and a day, with the period of suspension stayed in favor of two years probation, by order of the Louisiana Supreme Court. The lawyer had failed to...

Protecting The Public

Posted on May 16, 2008
The Wisconsin Supreme Court suspended an attorney for six months for mishandling a series of cases. The attorney had previously been subject to a suspension for failure to fulfill CLE obligations and to respond to bar investigations. In explaining its...

Judicial Speech

Posted on May 16, 2008
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court seeks comments on proposed revisions of its Code of Judicial Conduct as it pertains to public comments by judges. If adopted, the new rule will (among other things) allow a judge greater freedom to respond...

Suspension For Neglecting Criminal Appeals

Posted on May 16, 2008
The Ohio Supreme Court indefinitely suspended an attorney who had neglected a number of criminal appeals and had failed to refund unearned fees. The lawyer had initially responded to complaints--in one instance claiming health problems and that he had lost...

Representing Relatives

Posted on May 16, 2008
Reciprocal discipline was imposed by the New York Appellate Division for the Second Judicial Department based on a six-month suspension from New Jersey. The attorney fought reciprocal discipline, alleging an infirmity of proof and complaining about the length of time...

On The McDonald Spit

Posted on May 15, 2008
A dispute between two attorneys who co-owned vacation property as tenants-in-common at a place on the McDonald Spit worked its way to a decision from the Alaska Supreme Court. The attorneys did not have a written agreement concerning their respective...

AALS Section on Professional Responsibility: Spring 08 Newsletter

Posted on May 15, 2008
Through the good offices of it general editor, Randy Lee at Widener, and many others in the AALS Section on Professional Responsibility, here is their highly useful, newly printed section newsletter for spr. 2008: Download AALS-News.Spring2008.pdf . It includes case...

Where There's A Will

Posted on May 15, 2008
The Indiana Supreme Court suspended an attorney for "at least three years" for a number of ethical violations in two matters. He had represented an elderly client who wished to name the lawyer as a beneficiary in his will. The...

Dysfunctional Family

Posted on May 15, 2008
The Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board has recommended a suspension of one year, with all but three months suspended and unsupervised probation for nine months where an attorney had filed a defamation suit against his sister (and former client) and thereafter...

Schinder's List Of Violations

Posted on May 14, 2008
I have recently discovered the California Bar Journal as a source of interesting disciplinary matters. Here's their summary of a recent disbarment of a lawyer located in Michigan for an array of serious ethical lapses: In a default proceeding, the...

Boston Herald Apologizes For Wrong Spygate Story on Rams' Taping

Posted on May 14, 2008
So the headlines say. Am I the only one who is reminded of Deep Throat in the parking garage? You let [Belichick] slip away... You've done worse than let [Belichick] slip away, you've got people feeling sorry for him, I...

New Edition Book of ABA's Model Rules Is Announced

Posted on May 14, 2008
In an email sent around today, the American Bar Association announced its publication of the 2008 Edition of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, with the MR Comments included, for $19.95 (or $14.95 for section members, and also discounted for...

Miracle Whip Makes A Great Proxy Demographic

Posted on May 14, 2008
I grew up on Miracle Whip. Miracle Whip on sandwiches. Miracle Whip on bananas, called "a salad." On peanut butter. On peanut butter and banana sandwiches. It tastes (I eventually realized) actually vile, despite being a combination of two normally-fantastic...

A Poor Choice Of Words

Posted on May 14, 2008
From the California Bar Journal comes the following story: The State Bar Court found that Torres violated one of the probation conditions imposed on him in an earlier disciplinary case by failing to file five quarterly probation reports and that...

Law Firm Marketing

Posted on May 14, 2008
A section of the District of Columbia Bar is sponsoring a session on law firm marketing on May 20. The blurb from the bar's web page states: The program is premised on the growing number of law firms that are...

Equitable Subrogation

Posted on May 14, 2008
The Indiana Supreme Court held that the Court of Appeals properly concluded that an excess insurer may not bring an action for legal malpractice against the insured's attorneys: "Emphasizing the paramount importance of a lawyer's duties of client loyalty and...

Can't Be Bothered

Posted on May 14, 2008
A hearing committee in Louisiana has recommended a two-year suspension of an attorney who accepted a bankruptcy matter and abandoned the practice of law. Of particular note is the attorney's attitude toward the bar disciplinary process: While attempting to serve...

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