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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

After Work

Posted on July 22, 2010
A Colorado attorney was suspended for a year and a day for the following misconduct: Respondent left work, consumed alcohol, then fled from the police and ran eight red lights and stop signs while exceeding 100 MPH. He then intentionally...

The blue squiggly line, Part 2

Posted on July 22, 2010
Posted by Alan Childress Recalling Jeff's recent run-in with the endless do-loop of the blue squiggly line of apparent grammar correction from Office 2007.... TEST: What is wrong with this sentence? The Court may one day face the question of...

Judge Suspended For Tire Incident

Posted on July 21, 2010
Former AbovetheLaw Judge of the Day Robert Nalley had been suspended without pay for five working days by the Maryland Court of Appeals. The discipline was imposed pursuant to a consent. The misconduct involved letting the air of the tires...

Arbitration Decision To Reinstate Fired Executive General Counsel Overturned

Posted on July 21, 2010
The Wisconsin Supreme Court (with its typical 4-3 split) has held that an arbitration panel exceeded its authority by ordering the reinstatement of the dismissed general counsel of a corporation: We agree with Menard [the corporation] that the panel exceeded...

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Former Judge Suspended For Misconduct On Bench

Posted on July 21, 2010
The web page of the Ohio Supreme Court reports; [A f]ormer Portage County Municipal Court Judge...has been suspended from the practice of law for one year, with the final six months of that term stayed, for violations of the Code...

Sufficient Malice To Disbar

Posted on July 20, 2010
An attorney who was charged in California with the first degree murder of his girlfriend was convicted by a jury of a lesser charge of second degree murder. He also was convicted of a firearms assault offense. He was sentenced...

Saved By Bar Discipline Complaint

Posted on July 20, 2010
An attorney was publicly censured by the New York Appellate Division for the First Judicial Department in light of findings that the misconduct found was the product of a serious substance abuse problem. The attorney has been sober and employed...

Charges Of Judicial Nepotism Result In Reprimand

Posted on July 20, 2010
An aggressively-litigated judicial discipline matter against a Nashville General Session Court has been resolved by an agreed order. The order was entered by a majority of judges of the Tennessee Court of the Judiciary. Charges that the judge was habitually...

General Counsel Indefinitely Suspended For Criminal Conviction

Posted on July 20, 2010
From the web page of the Ohio Supreme Court: [An attorney] has been indefinitely suspended from the practice of law for multiple violations of state attorney discipline rules arising from his convictions on federal criminal counts of money laundering, conspiracy...

"Deliberate Lies" Warrant Disbarment

Posted on July 20, 2010
The New Hampshire Supreme Court rejected the recommendation of its Professional Conduct Committee for a two year suspension with conditions on reinstatement, concluding that disbarment was the proper sanction for the attorney's ethical violations. The attorney had neglected an estate...

Attorney Stabbed By Opposing Party in Domestic Case

Posted on July 19, 2010
This article from the Minneapolis-St. Paul StarTribune.com reports a brutal stabbing attack of an attorney by the opposing party in a domestic case: Sheikh Nyane, 32, who was charged with assault and attempted murder in the case, admitted to police...

Conviction Upheld

Posted on July 18, 2010
The United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Services has affirmed the conviction at a general court-martial of Lt. Commander Matthew Diaz for offenses related to his providing the names of Guantanamo detainees to an attorney for the Center...

Suspension For Sex With Client

Posted on July 16, 2010
The Iowa Supreme Court has suspended an attorney for 30 days for violation of the prohibition of sex with a client. The fact that the attorney represented the client in a marriage dissolution matter was treated as an aggravating factor....

Not As A Solo

Posted on July 16, 2010
The Delaware Supreme Court has held that an attorney suspended for two years may start the reinstatement process after 18 months but must serve the full two-year period before reinstatement can be granted. The misconduct had occurred after the attorney...

Mercer Announces New Moot Court Competition in Legal Ethics

Posted on July 16, 2010
Announcing the First Annual Mercer Law School Moot Court Competition in Legal Ethics & Professionalism Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law, home of the Mercer Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism, will host the only national moot court...

Lawyer Suspended In Medical Marijuana Clinic Dispute

Posted on July 15, 2010
An attorney who had assisted his client in her forcible takeover of a medical marijuana clinic where the client had been employed was suspended for 90 days by the Oregon Supreme Court. Some background: The accused met Leveque [the client]...

Power Of Attorney

Posted on July 15, 2010
The New York Appellate Division for the Third Judicial Department suspended an attorney for five years for misconduct in connection with the handling of the affairs of his aunt. He had her power of attorney and also was her attorney....

Judging A Judge

Posted on July 15, 2010
From the web page of the Ohio Supreme Court: The Supreme Court of Ohio today suspended the law license of [a] Van Wert Municipal Court Judge...for 12 months, with the final six months of that term stayed on conditions, for...

"The Best Traditions of the Bar" (and Academia)

Posted on July 14, 2010
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw Over at PrawfsBlawg, Eric Johnson (North Dakota, left) asked readers to comment on the Harvard Law Review's practice of not attributing student notes to the authors. Most commenters recited the justification I recall hearing years ago...

Holmes' The Common Law in annotated form; summer reading before law school begins

Posted on July 14, 2010
Posted by Alan Childress A brief follow-up to my post last week on The Common Law, in which I trashed current online and digital versions of the book for being poorly scanned and never proofread, incomplete and unusable. So I...

Tennis Anyone?

Posted on July 14, 2010
The Florida Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee opines that a judge may serrve as honorary chairman of a bench-bar tennis tournament: The inquiring judge has been asked to lend the judge?s name as an ?Honorary Chairman? for a Bench-Bar tennis tournament...

Ah, Wilderness!

Posted on July 14, 2010
The web page of the Disciplinary Board of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court reports a recent suspension as a result of a criminal conviction. This post from LehighValleyLive.com describes the charges, which involved defrauding a church and a charity: Today's indictment...

Censure For Driving 117 MPH While Intoxicated

Posted on July 14, 2010
The New York Appellate Division for the Second Judicial Department concluded that a public censure was the appropriate sanction for misconduct described in the court's opinion: ...the respondent entered a plea of guilty...to the crimes of operating a motor vehicle...

Unwanted, Uninvited, And Unwelcome

Posted on July 13, 2010
A hearing on sanctions is scheduled for July 20 before the Pennsylvania Judicial Conduct Board in a matter involving findings that an Erie County Magisterial District Judge had made "repeated and persistent telephone calls to five women which calls were...

Undeserving

Posted on July 12, 2010
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a federal court action seeking an injunction to prevent North Dakota disciplinary counsel from prosecuting a bar complaint against the plaintiff. The suit was filed by...

"DumpMySpouse.com"

Posted on July 12, 2010
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw I drove up I-75 from the Detroit area to Charlevoix yesterday, and was listening to the baseball game somewhere near Flint (WTRX, 1330-AM, part of the Detroit Tigers Baseball Network*) and heard an ad that I...

When Law Partner Spouses Divorce

Posted on July 12, 2010
When a married couple enter into a law partnership, the divorce and resulting termination of the partnership is likely to wind up as a published opinion. The lawyers married in 1987 and commenced the partnership in 1988. The partnership lasted...

If You Liked the Idea of Post-Tenure Review, You'll Love 360� Reviews for Federal Judges: A Proposal

Posted on July 12, 2010
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw David Kessler, presently a post-graduate research fellow at the Harvard Law School, let us know about his article on "professional development" for Article III judges he recently placed in the Rutgers Law Review: "The More You....

A Problematic Condition For Reinstatement

Posted on July 11, 2010
A justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rejected and remanded a recommendation for reinstatement of an attorney indefinitely suspended in 2003. The Board of Bar Overseers had proposed reinstatement with certain conditions. Justice Gants concluded that the proposed condition...

Witness Tampering Conviction

Posted on July 10, 2010
An attorney who was convicted of federal offenses involving tampering with a witness was suspended for five years by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The attorney was retained to represent a defendant charged with bank robbery. The client wanted to cooperate...

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