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Prosecutor Charged With Ethics Violations
Posted on February 26, 2009The Michigan Attorney Grievance Administrator has filed a formal complaint alleging thatthe chief prosecutor for the Wayne County major drug unit offered knowningly false testimony in a criminal matter. It is further alleged that the prosecutor knowingly made false closing...
Threats Justify Expulsion
Posted on February 26, 2009Those of us who are responsible for enforcement of rules governing student discipline may find a recent decision of the Oregon Court of Appeals of interest. The student conduct at issue is described in the court's opinion:The relevant facts are...
Lemon Lawyers Censured
Posted on February 26, 2009The New York Appellate Division for the Third Judicial Department imposed reciprocal censures of two law firm partners based on sanctions imposed in Maryland. The law firm had its primary office in Pennsylvania. The lawyers:...operated a high volume practice in...
What's In A (Trade) Name?
Posted on February 26, 2009The New Jersey Supreme Court remanded to its Committee on Attorney Advertising an issue whether a trade name was vague and misleading. The petition for review of the committee's determination was filed by Alpha Center for Divorce Mediation, P.C. The....
Indefinite Suspension
Posted on February 26, 2009From the web page of the Ohio supreme Court:The law license of attorney Fred J. Burkholder, who formerly practiced in Lucas County and currently resides in Massachusetts, has been indefinitely suspended by the Supreme Court of Ohio. Burkholder?s license has...
License Saved To Pay off Malpractice Judgment
Posted on February 26, 2009The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ordered a stayed two-year suspension, probation for four years, and monthly restitution payments of $5,000 in a matter where the attorney had represented a retired police officer in a dispute over pension benefits. The attorney took...
The Case-By Case Analysis
Posted on February 26, 2009As if in response to the last post, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court imposed an 18 month suspension of an attorney who had neglected multiple matters and misappropriated advanced fees that he did not earn. The court adopted the Disciplinary Board's...
Disbarment Too Harsh For Misappropriation?
Posted on February 26, 2009The District of Columbia Court of Appeals adopted a strict rule virtually mandating disbarment in all case of intentional or reckless misappropriation in its 1990 en banc decision in In re Addams, 579 A.2d 190. The volunteer disciplinary system and...
More On New Jersey, Free Speech and Rats
Posted on February 25, 2009The New Jersey Appellate Division declared unconstitutional a media and public relations policy as applied to a detective employed by the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor. The detective had been disciplined for his contact with a television reporter in...
Civil Penalties And Injunction For Unlicensed Practice Of Law
Posted on February 25, 2009From the web page of the Ohio Supreme Court: The Supreme Court of Ohio today imposed civil penalties totaling $50,000 and issued an injunction prohibiting Senior Estate Planning Services of America, Inc. (SEPSA) of Blue Ash and company owner Robert...
Judge Censured
Posted on February 25, 2009The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct has censured a judge of the Monroe County Family Court who had, according to the commission's news release:...ordered her secretary to perform babysitting duties on several occasions for her two young children...
Research Fellow Position -- Center for the Study of the Legal Profession
Posted on February 24, 2009[Posted by Bill Henderson] Based on this announcement, the study of the legal profession as a substantive area of research appears to be gaining traction: The Center for the Study of the Legal Profession at Georgetown University Law Center (CSLP)...
Confidentiality And Prospective Clients
Posted on February 24, 2009The District of Columbia Bar Legal Ethics Committee opines on confidentiality obligations to a prospective client where the communication comes from a lawyer exploring possible referral of the matter rather than direct communication with the prospective client:When a prospective client...
OK To Hire The Retired
Posted on February 24, 2009A recent opinion from the Florida Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee on the ethical implications of employing retired lawyers as judicial staff attorneys:Although the Code of Judicial Conduct does not directly apply to judicial assistants, staff attorneys, and other court officials,...
Further Study For Louisiana Advertising Rules
Posted on February 24, 2009From the web page of the Louisiana Supreme Court:Chief Justice Catherine D. Kimball announced today that the Court?s recently-adopted amendments to the Rules of Professional Conduct pertaining to lawyer advertising will become effective on October 1, 2009, rather than April...
Larry Solum's Magnificent Entry-Level Hiring Data Base
Posted on February 24, 2009Larry Solum (Illinois) has posted his annual request for information on entry-level hiring. He's gone mega-sophisticated with a Survey Monkey form. Very cool. [Jeff Lipshaw]
Coming to Terms with a Dorky Name
Posted on February 24, 2009Posted by Jeff Linden Tree It's not easy having a dorky name. I mean, there's no way that Lipshaw fits on the back of a sports jersey. I feel better today, however, even though it came at the expense of...
Brothers Removed From Judicial Offices
Posted on February 23, 2009A news release from the New York Commission on Judicial Conduct reports the removal from judicial office of two brothers, one sitting in Westchester County, the other in Bronx County. The Westchester judge attempted to derfaud his campaign manager by...
Prom Night
Posted on February 23, 2009The Indiana Supreme Court affirmed the conviction of a defendant who was charged with the murder of his father, step-mother and two step-sisters so that he could attend his senior prom. The father was a minister who had remarried after...
No Records, No Conversion
Posted on February 23, 2009A Louisiana hearing committie proposes a public reprimand and probation for twelve months in a matter where a medical services provider who did regular business with a lawyer had complained that it had not been paid out of settlement proceeds...
More Traffic Ticket Misconduct
Posted on February 23, 2009A Louisiana hearing committee has recommended the disbarment (but not of the permanent variety) in a case where an assistant city attorney in New Orleans had been convicted of felony misfeasance in office. The conviction involved his decision to dismiss...
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Oh, yes. This can be taken in as so many things, especially since you had testif...
How to evict a roommate?
First, in most jurisdictions "self-help" is not a remedy available to any party ...
I have worked for this employer for only three weeks. The employer makes up his own rules as to what he chooses to report for the purpose of property taxes. He tells me to "let them come after us". He defines Entertain
He arrogantly insists, "let them come after us." Well, if you are invo...
This has happened 3 or 4 times a month now- they have turned the electric off 2 days consecutively, the water off about 9 or 10 times now, and our heat has broken 5 times (once it would not shut off, and we were forced t
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