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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

Consent Suspension Approved

Posted on August 27, 2009
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals has approved a consent disposition and imposed a 60-day suspension of an attorney who had "inaccurately represented his status at the law form where he was employed, made a false representation on behalf...

No Show, No Mitigation

Posted on August 26, 2009
A Louisiana hearing committee has recommended the permanent disbarment of an attorney convicted of conspiracy to bribe a public official. The payment of $135,000 was made to an agent of the State of Louisiana in connection with the approval of...

Truly Inspiring

Posted on August 26, 2009
The Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board has recommended a three-year suspension retroactive to the attorney's 1997 interim suspension for a laundry list of ethical violations. The board found that the attorney's recovery from chemical addiction was "truly inspiring" and noted that...

Call for Papers for Jan. 2010 AALS Conference

Posted on August 26, 2009
Call for Papers [to select a speaker] for the Program of the Section of Professional Responsibility at the 2010 AALS Annual Meeting New Orleans, Friday, Jan. 8, 2010, 10:30-12:15 TOPIC: The 2008 FATF Lawyer Guidance Submission Deadline: September 1, 2009:...

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Advanced Legal Studies Programs at Suffolk Law - September 2009

Posted on August 26, 2009
Suffolk University Law School's nonpareil Advanced Legal Studies program is offering the following three opportunities at the school (120 Tremont Street, Boston, MA, conveniently located across the street from the Park Street T station) in September. You can call the...

Bar Charges For Domestic Abuse

Posted on August 26, 2009
The Illinois Administrator has filed disciplinary charges against an attorney alleging neglect of an estate matter and serarate instances of domestic battery against his wife and daughter. the incident involving the wife took place at El Taco Grande, where he...

Subpoena For Patient Records Upheld

Posted on August 25, 2009
The New York Appellate Division for the First Judicial Department held that the State Board for Professional Medical Conduct had sufficient evidence to issue a subpoena for a doctor's records of nine HIV patients. The court further concluded that steps...

Nonparticipation Equals Fitness

Posted on August 25, 2009
The Indiana Supreme Court recently imposed a suspension of 120 days without automatic reinstatement in a case that reminds me of cases I handled as a bar prosecutor. The attorney accepted two family law matters shortly before undergoing heart surgery...

In The Spotlight

Posted on August 25, 2009
From the web page of the Ohio Supreme Court:In a decision announced today, the Supreme Court of Ohio imposed a two-year license suspension against [a] Dayton attorney...based on an incident in which [he] engaged in an armed standoff with Dayton...

Double Or Nothing

Posted on August 24, 2009
A summary from the web page of the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers: On March 4, 2009, the respondent...was disbarred by the Supreme Court of California. The respondent had been admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1983 and the California...

Attorneys Of Aboite

Posted on August 24, 2009
Three Indiana lawyers from the Aboite township in Allen County, Indiana formed "Attorneys of Aboite, LLC" notwithstanding the fact that they had separate practices and were not a firm. The name was used in notices, documents, communications, telephone listings, ads,...

A Wide Array Of Fee-Related Misconduct

Posted on August 24, 2009
The Indiana Supreme Court imposed a suspension of at least two years without automatic reinstatement in a matter "involving repeated violations of rules prohibiting improper fee arrangements, including the improper use of nonrefundable retainers, improper billing practices, failure to return...

Law Practice Technology

Posted on August 24, 2009
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw We don't endorse commercial products here (usually), and I'm sure I got this is a really a teaser so that the company, AbacusLaw, can sell law firm management software (they'd give the book away, I suspect,...

Suspension For Incompetent Representation

Posted on August 24, 2009
An attorney who had failed to provide competent representation in a civil rights lawsuit was suspended for 60 days by the Nebraska Supreme Court. The section 1983 suit named the Nebraska Department of Corrections and 14 individual defendants. The attorney...

Ohio Outsourcing Opinion

Posted on August 24, 2009
From the web page of the Ohio Supreme Court: Two recent advisory opinions from the Supreme Court of Ohio?s Board of Commissioners on Grievances & Discipline offer guidance on outsourcing legal or support services and whether a newly appointed domestic...

Ditching the Seating Chart

Posted on August 23, 2009
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw First class blues are the order of the day across the law prof blawgosphere; we start tomorrow. I'm teaching the same class for the fourth semester in a row, and last spring I wrote the teachers'...

More from Paul Lippe on the Future of Law Schools

Posted on August 22, 2009
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw Paul Lippe, who has been an agent provocateur (or thought leader, as they say) on the subject of legal education, has a follow up to his original Am Law Daily commentary to which our Bill Henderson...

Double Entendre Headlines

Posted on August 22, 2009
I'm blogging up a storm here, and the fact that the first hurricane since we moved to Boston is on the way, I can blog about a storm. There are rip tide warnings out for the Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard,...

Ambition and Rankings: "We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us"

Posted on August 21, 2009
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw I was reading the Wall Street Journal's Weekend Journal this morning, and the De Gustibus columnist, Eric Felten, waxes on about the USNWR ranking of universities and liberal arts colleges. I was struck by this observation...

Agreed Statement Insufficient To Impose Judicial Discipline

Posted on August 21, 2009
The Mississippi Supreme Court remanded to its Commission on Judicial Performance a proposed public reprimand and 30 day suspension of a justice court judge. The charges involved "allegations that he improperly touched a justice court deputy clerk and used racially...

Jury Trial Right Not Waived

Posted on August 21, 2009
A case summary from the web page of the Tennessee Court of Appeals: The dispositive issue on appeal pertains to a party?s fundamental and constitutional right to a jury trial guaranteed by Tenn. Const. art. I, � 6, and whether...

How Not to Retire and Teach - Litigation Approach

Posted on August 21, 2009
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw Over at Conglomerate, good friend Usha Rodrigues has a post mulling over a lawsuit reported on by Debra Cassens Weiss of the ABA Journal - a Troy, Michigan lawyer by the name of Donald Dobkin filed...

Lawyer Voyeur Suspended

Posted on August 20, 2009
From the web page of the Ohio Supreme Court: The Supreme Court of Ohio today imposed an indefinite license suspension against [a]Cuyahoga Falls attorney...for engaging in illegal voyeuristic conduct that resulted in his conviction on multiple criminal counts including felony...

Serious Sanction Proposed For Prosecutorial Misconduct

Posted on August 20, 2009
A District of Columbia hearing committee has filed its report in a high-profile bar discipline case against a former prosecutor. The National Law Journal reports: A former federal prosecutor in Washington was dishonest, interfered with the administration of justice and...

No Reason To Squeal

Posted on August 20, 2009
The Washington Supreme Court affirmed findings of misconduct and imposed a six-month suspension of an attorney for a conflict of interest in representing both a mother and son (a high school friend) in a family dispute and (for the mother)...

Abandoned

Posted on August 19, 2009
A Louisiana hearing committee has recommended a six-month suspension with three months deferred and one year of probation in a matter where the attorney had essentially abandoned a client in a personal injury matter. The attorney stipulated to the facts...

Job Opening: ABA Legal Reform Specialist (Kosovo)

Posted on August 19, 2009
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw From Annie Lively at the ABA, we have this posting of a job for the adventurous and idealistic: American Bar Association, Rule of Law Initiative-Kosovo, Legal Education Reform Specialist (6-12 months, Fall 2009) (Pristina/Mitrovica, Kosovo) The...

No Liability For Graduation Kegger That Turned Violent

Posted on August 18, 2009
Not a Legal Profession case, but of possible interest is a decision yesterday from the Washington Court of Appeals Division 1. The court's holding: Should civil liability be imposed upon those who plan and furnish beer for a high school...

Former Client's Intentional Wrongdoing Bars Malpractice Action

Posted on August 18, 2009
A case decided today by the North Carolina Court of Appeals affirms the grant of summary judgment to the defendant-lawyer in a legal malpractice case. the plaintiff in the malpractice case had made false claims that he had a valid...

Attention Ohio Lawyers

Posted on August 18, 2009
From the web page of the Ohio Supreme Court: The Supreme Court of Ohio Office of Attorney Services issued a warning today about an Internet scam affecting Ohio lawyers. Multiple individual attorneys and law firms have contacted the Supreme Court...

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