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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

Wrestling Experience As Aggravating Factor

Posted on August 12, 2010
A Louisiana hearing committee has recommended a 90-day suspension, with all but 30 days suspended, in a matter involving a conviction for domestic abuse battery. The victim of the assault was the attorney's former wife and the mother of his...

Reciprocal Discipline For Loren Friedman

Posted on August 12, 2010
Just when you think that the Loren Friedman saga is over, something else happens. The New York Appellate Division for the Third Judicial Department today imposed reciprocal discipline of the three-year suspension based on the sanction imposed in Illinois...

Judicial Campaign Rule Changes In Ohio

Posted on August 12, 2010
From the web page of the Ohio Supreme Court: Justices Take Action in Response to Federal Court Decision The Supreme Court of Ohio has amended portions of two rules governing disclosure of political party affiliation and solicitations of campaign contributions...

"Somewhat Misleading"

Posted on August 11, 2010
A recent admonition is reported in the Utah Bar Journal: On May 10, 2010, the Chair of the Ethics and Discipline Committee of the Utah Supreme Court entered an Order of Discipline: Admonition against an attorney for violation of Rules...

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A Tough Practice Area

Posted on August 11, 2010
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has suspended an attorney for 30 days, with the possibility of a fully-stayed sanction. The attorney was retained to represent a client in a matter that included a dispute over visitation with the client's minor...

The Cost Of A Button

Posted on August 11, 2010
The North Carolina State Bar has filed charges against an attorney who is alleged to have made inappropriate comments and advances toward a client who he represented in a divorce and property distribution matter. Among the allegations are claims that...

Divorce Appeal Claims Rejected

Posted on August 10, 2010
The Connecticut Appellate Division has rejected the appeal of a divorcing wife and affirmed the judgment of the trial court. The court rejected claims that the trial court had abused its discretion in its disposition of the case and had...

False Statements In Lawyer's Own Divorce Lead To Suspension

Posted on August 10, 2010
A proposed public reprimand was rejected as unduly lenient by a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. The misconduct involved dishonest behavior in the attorney's own divorce. This summary sets forth the facts: The Board found that [the attorney]...

Life's Short

Posted on August 10, 2010
An Illinois attorney and the Administrator have agreed that she be struck from the rolls from the Bar in light of concessions that she had falsified court orders and an affidavit in a series of domestic relations cases. At the...

NOBC Case Of The Month

Posted on August 09, 2010
The National Organization of Bar Counsel has chosen a bar discipline matter from Iowa that we previously reported as its case of the month. Jim Grogan's typically lyrical case summary in part: The mere act of committing a crime does...

Former Law Firm Associate Suspended

Posted on August 09, 2010
The South Carolina Supreme Court has ordered a six-month suspension of an associate who took retainers due to his firm. The court described the misconduct: For a period of four years, respondent was employed as an associate attorney in a...

Wisdom That Should Migrate To D.C.

Posted on August 09, 2010
An Indiana attorney has been suspended for 30 days for ethical violations in representation of a family corporation and one of seven siblings with interests in the corporation. The attorney had purported to represent both the single client and the...

Under The Table

Posted on August 09, 2010
A Massachusetts attorney has been suspended for three months with two months stayed and one year of probation. The summary of the matter from the web page of the Board of Bar Overseers describes the misconduct: In August of 2007,...

Access Denied

Posted on August 09, 2010
A magistrate was placed on interim suspension by order of the South Carolina Supreme Court. The order contains an interesting provision: ...respondent is prohibited from entering the premises of the magistrate court unless escorted by a law enforcement officer after...

Former DA Charged, Suspended By Consent

Posted on August 08, 2010
The North Carolina State Bar and a former county district attorney recently agreed to an order of interim suspension in the wake of misdemeanor charges involving assault and misuse of office. This report provides some details concerning the charges, courtesy...

Judge Suspended For Misconduct Toward Court Employees

Posted on August 07, 2010
The Kansas Supreme Court has suspended a judge pro tem for one year who engaged in sex-related misconduct toward court personnel. The misconduct involved inappropriate remarks and notes ("I want to lick your butt"and "You're hot"), exposing his genitals to...

Deliberately Bad Press Photos and the Unknown Bush-Harvard Fiasco

Posted on August 07, 2010
Posted by Alan Childress More about journalism ethics than legal ones, or just weekend musings of the sort we occasionally do here, but when did it become acceptable for the AP and others to pick a frame of a series...

Follow up on Lisa Webley on Adversarialism Among Divorce Solicitors and Mediators in UK, and Other Paperbacks

Posted on August 06, 2010
Posted by Alan Childress Two weeks ago, I posted that Lisa Webley had published to Kindle and Smashwords, via the "Publish Your Dissertation as a Digital Ebook" project, her book on the professional styles and differences among divorce lawyers in...

Absolutely Privileged

Posted on August 05, 2010
A statement made in response to a bar complaint filed by an opposing party against counsel is absolutely privileged, according to a decision of the New York Appellate Division for the Second Judicial Department affirming the dismissal of a defamation...

After The Flood

Posted on August 05, 2010
The New York Appellate Division for the Second Judicial Department has suspended an attorney for two years for failure to properly maintain his escrow account and lack of candor with disciplinary counsel. The court was not persuaded that the mitigation...

DA Suspended, Placed On Probation, For Practicing While Suspended

Posted on August 04, 2010
A disciplinary summary from the August 2010 online edition of the California Bar Journal:[An attorney] was suspended for one year, stayed, placed on one year of probation with a 30-day actual suspension and was ordered to take the MPRE within...

No Facebook For Judicial Candidates

Posted on August 03, 2010
A candidate for judicial office may not personally host a website or Facebook page seeking donations to the judge's re-election campaign, according to a recent ethics opinion from Florida's Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee. The committee opined that a judge may...

Default Revocation Not Vacated

Posted on August 03, 2010
The Michigan Attorney Discipline Board affirmed a panel order of revocation in a case that involved an attorney's conviction for driving while suspended an forgery of license documents/plates. The attorney defaulted on those charges as well as a separate matter...

Party Leads To Proposed Suspensions

Posted on August 03, 2010
Two friends whose weekend party at a family summer home led to criminal convictions are the subject of an Illinois hearing board's recommendation for a 30 day suspension for one friend and a 60 day suspension for the other. The...

Ohio Changes Unauthorized Practice Rules

Posted on August 02, 2010
The Ohio Supreme Court has announced changes in its enforcement regime for unauthorized practice: Under changes to the Supreme Court of Ohio Rule governing the Unauthorized Practice of Law (UPL), the Ohio Attorney General will be authorized to investigate and...

Title Company Not Liable For Attorney Theft

Posted on August 02, 2010
The New Jersey Supreme Court has held that a title insurance company is not liable for an attorney's theft of funds involved in the real estate transaction. The attorney had already stolen the entrusted funds when the transaction was completed....

Multiple Murderer Disbarred

Posted on August 02, 2010
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has disbarred an attorney suspended on an interim basis in 2000 who had shot and killed five people and wounded another with a .357 caliber magnum revolver in Allegheny and Beaver counties. The former attorney is...

Can Stanford Be #1 in the US News Rankings? The Data

Posted on July 31, 2010
The Research Question: What will it take for Stanford Law School to be ranked #1 in the U.S. News Law School rankings?

Bar Admission Not An "Empty Formality"

Posted on July 31, 2010
The New Mexico Supreme Court imposed a deferred one-year suspension and public reprimand of an attorney who engaged in misconduct involving misrepresentations and unauthorized practice. The misrepresentations involved an estate. The accused was on inactive status in Virginia and had...

Becoming a Law Professor: A Candidate's Guide

Posted on July 30, 2010
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw Several years ago, I published a little essay about making the leap into tenure-track legal academia well after the time in which most long-standing faculty members would have expected one's theoretical and scholarly synapses to have...

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