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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

Noklahoma

Posted on November 10, 2010
The Oklahoma Supreme Court has denied the reinstatement petition of an attorney disbarred in 1997. The court noted a series of considerations that precluded reinstatement. He had held himself out as an attorney after disbarment, filed a required affidavit twelve...

An Error In Your Favor

Posted on November 09, 2010
A Virginia attorney has accepted a public reprimand without terms as a result of misconduct in a divorce case in which he represented his sister. The sister was found to owe over $11,000 in child support arrearages. The attorney filed...

In The Woods

Posted on November 09, 2010
The Illinois Administrator has filed a two-count complaint against an attorney. Count One alleges a course of conduct that led to a criminal conviction: Respondent engaged in a sexual act with another individual while in public at Somme Woods Forest....

Unfit To Practice

Posted on November 08, 2010
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court imposed a five-year suspension (as recommended by its Disciplinary Board) for an array of ethical violations in the representation of an elderly client. The attorney had a friend who rented office space from him prepare a...

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Room Share Creates Appearence Of Impropriety

Posted on November 08, 2010
The South Carolina Supreme Court accepted a consent discipline and removed a municipal court judge from office. The court recited the facts: In February 2008, respondent attended the South Carolina Summary Court Judges Association Staff/Judges Seminar in Myrtle Beach, South...

The Smiling Turtle

Posted on November 08, 2010
The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct has ordered the removal of a judge of the Saratoga County Family Court. The commission concluded that the judge had repeatedly locked up litigants while denying the right to counsel and to...

Sewer Attorney Suspended

Posted on November 08, 2010
The web page of the Ohio Supreme Court reports today the interim suspension of an attorney as a result of a felony conviction. Cleveland.com reported that the attorney had served as counsel to the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District and...

The Wrong Place

Posted on November 04, 2010
The New York Appellate Division for the Third Judicial Department has imposed a one year suspension of an attorney for an incident that took place in the court clerk's office in October 2005. The attorney had asked for a copy...

Another Way To Get Disbarred

Posted on November 04, 2010
The Minnesota Supreme Court has disbarred an attorney for running a prostitution ring. According to this report from WCCO, he had been charged with criminal offenses arising out of his involvement. The attorney had served as an Assistant Hennipin County...

Bar Exam Taker Fails To Upload Answers, Disqualified From Exam

Posted on November 03, 2010
Bar examination takers, heed this warning. The Utah Supreme Court has upheld the State Bar's decision disqualifying an applicant from the Bar exam "for failure to upload his typed essay exam answers within the required time frame." The court rejected...

Crime Against Nature

Posted on November 03, 2010
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has disbarred an attorney convicted of a criminal offense in Rhode Island. The summary of the case from the web page of the Board of Bar Overseers described the criminal matter: On October 28, 1997,...

Dinner At A Reduced Rate OK

Posted on November 03, 2010
The Maine Judicial Ethics Committee has issued an advisory opinion that a judge may attend a dinner held to honor past presidents of the Maine Trial Lawyers Association. The judge may attend at a reduced fee (a determination reached after...

Go Fly A Kite

Posted on November 03, 2010
An attorney who had defaulted on ethics charges that alleged 51 counts of misconduct in twelve client matters had his license revoked by the Wisconsin Supreme Court: With respect to the level of discipline, we wholeheartedly agree with the referee's....

The Prosecutor And The Property

Posted on November 03, 2010
The Indychannel.com has a report that the Delaware County, Indiana prosecutor is the subject of ethics charges of selling the property of offenders without due process of law: Four plaintiffs have filed a civil suit against [the prosecutor], the city...

A Bad Result, An Inexact Science

Posted on November 02, 2010
The South Carolina Supreme Court affirmed the grant of summary judgment against plaintiff Harris Teeter, Inc. in a legal malpractice claim. The attorneys had handled an arbitration over a lease. The court concluded that the plaintiff did not establish a...

That's What Friends Are (Not) For

Posted on November 02, 2010
The Illinois Review Board has recommended a nine-month suspension of an attorney who assisted his best friend and former law partner in his post-disbarment unauthorized practice of law. The attorney engaged in further misconduct by falsely denying his role on...

Public Defender Conflict Does Not Warrant Reversal

Posted on November 01, 2010
The Montana Supreme Court has affirmed a criminal conviction despite the fact that co-defendants were represented by different offices of the state public defender. The Missoulian reports: The Montana Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the conviction of Anthony St...

One Client Too Many

Posted on November 01, 2010
The Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers accepted a stipulated public censure of an attorney for a conflict of interest by representing a divorcing husband and wife. The following summary describes the conduct: In September of 2009, the respondent filed with...

Just Say "No Contest"

Posted on November 01, 2010
A California attorney faces a recommendation that he be disbarred as a result of a criminal conviction and his failure to report the conviction to the State Bar. The attorney has been disciplined on three prior occasions. The attorney was...

Between A Rock And A Hard Place

Posted on November 01, 2010
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has imposed an eighteen-month suspension of an attorney who had entered into a lease that allowed him to quarry stone from the lessor's land for a fee. A dispute thereafter arose. The attorney filed (and several...

Half-Baked Settlement Lands Judge In Hot Water

Posted on October 29, 2010
The New York Commission on Judicial Conduct (as it regulary does) has sanctioned a non-attorney judge for his involvement in a matter that took place on premises that he owned. The property was rented to Nana's Bakery and Cafe (the...

The More Appropriate Sanction

Posted on October 29, 2010
The Iowa Supreme Court has rejected a three-year suspension proposed by its Attorney Disciplinary Board and Grievance Commission and revoked the license of an attorney admitted in 1990. The disciplinary complaint alleged nine counts of ethics violations...

Georgetown Law Seeks Externship Director

Posted on October 29, 2010
A job posting just announced at Georgetown: Georgetown University Law Center is seeking to hire a Externship Director. We are looking for a person with both administrative and teaching skills who can build and grow an excellent program. The Externship...

No Reason To Suspend

Posted on October 28, 2010
The New York Appellate Division for the First Judicial Department affirmed findings of misconduct involving neglect of immigration matters but reduced the referee's proposed six-month suspension to a public censure. The court found mitigating factors that warranted a non-suspensory sanction:...

Judge May Not Advocate For Grandson Of Friend

Posted on October 28, 2010
The (very active) Florida Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee has opined on the following issue: ISSUE Can a judge write a letter to another judge to advocate a drug program or testify before that other judge to explain the drug program...

Get Real

Posted on October 28, 2010
The Minnesota Supreme Court has accepted a joint recommendation for discipline and imposed a suspension for a minimum of one year. The attorney was the chief executive officer of two title companies. He admitted that his companies had failed to...

Do It Yourself

Posted on October 28, 2010
The web page of the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers has a summary of a reprimand of an attorney who practiced while under an administrative suspension for his failure to pay Bar dues. The summary notes that the conduct was...

Left At The Scene

Posted on October 27, 2010
A Colorado attorney who left the scene after his car struck a bicycle-riding public defender has been suspended for three years based on his conditional admission of misconduct. Law News Colorado reported: ...a lawyer from Evergreen, on Thursday pled guilty...

Fee Arbitration Decision Enforced Against Former Client

Posted on October 27, 2010
A law firm filed suit against a former client for unpaid fees. The client responded with counterclaims of malpractice. The matter was stayed while the Bar's fee arbitration process went forward. The client lost fee arbitration and the law firm...

No Spirit, No Excellence

Posted on October 27, 2010
An opinion from the Florida Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee: ISSUE Whether a judge may accept the ?Spirit of Excellence? Government Leader of the Year Award from an organization whose purpose is to provide business training and networking opportunities for women,...

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