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: Legal Ethics ForumLegal Ethics Items (October 12, 2010)
- Given the holiday, the legal ethics news from the US isn't plentiful.
- Bench & Bar of Minnesota looks at cy pres recoveries. I understand the importance of cy pres when treated in an appropriate way, but have seen some cases where the cy pres is treated as spare cash to toss around.
- Florida disciplines 18 lawyers.
- At Prawsblawg, Lyrissa Lidsky discusses 1L curriculum reform.
- The UK's new legal ombudsman may be, according to Stephen Warne's Australian Professional Liability Blog, ?Fair, open, effective, shrewd and independent'. (Do I get extra credit for using British-style punctuation?)
- In Indianapolis, there are efforts to improve the "diversity pipeline" into the legal profession. In the past ten years or so, the shift in rhetoric to the "diversity pipeline" has focused more attention on the various ways that talented young people stop thinking about our profession as their future. [edited]
- Scotland: law splits Law Society up the middle.
- "UK legal profession inherently masculine".
- In Canada, prosecutors' investigations into potential jurors, with the help of police, is being questioned.
Full post as published by Legal Ethics Forum on October 12, 2010 (boomark / email).
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