By Katheryn Tucker | January 23, 2018
The judge “created the risk that his judicial office would be an influential factor” in the handling of his family matter, Disciplinary Counsel Maureen Bauman's complaint said. In so doing, he “impugned the integrity of the judiciary.”
By Andrew Denney | January 22, 2018
Months after weathering criticism over dropping investigations into two high-profile targets with lawyers who contributed to his election campaign, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. announced that he will no longer take donations from attorneys with business before his office.
New Jersey Law Journal | Commentary
By Law Journal Editorial Board | January 22, 2018
We have all taken courses on professional responsibility in law school and now must take an ethics component of mandatory continuing legal education. And we do because Professor Hazard pressed to have the subject as part of the core curriculum.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | January 18, 2018
The former Washington County judge who founded the county's drug court has been disbarred from the practice of law for stealing cocaine out of the court's evidence locker.
By Samuel C. Stretton | January 18, 2018
I saw that the new district attorney in Philadelphia has listed abolishing cash bail as one of his goals. I have also seen other reports. How will this affect lawyers?
By Scott Graham | January 17, 2018
Apple wants a fresh shot at invalidating Voip-Pal's internet calling patent based on letters the company's former CEO sent to administrative judges and other officials at the Patent and Trademark Office. But a lawyer for Bellevue, Washington-based Voip-Pal said the correspondence didn't violate any rules.
By Rose Walker | January 16, 2018
Lord Hain accused the law firm of a 'fatally flawed whitewash of a report' on South Africa corruption claims.
By Cheryl Miller | January 16, 2018
"I have decided not to contest certain allegations and agree to resign," Judge Elizabeth W. Johnson said in a letter. "This is so voters can make a reasoned and informed choice about who should be their next judge without distractions about me."
By Andrew Denney | January 12, 2018
A controversial Brooklyn judge who presided over a consumer debt part where he was accused in media reports of playing favorites with defendants has been relieved of his post in the debt court but still presides over a foreclosure part in state Supreme Court.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Peter F. Vaira | January 12, 2018
I submit to you, as I do every year, what I would like to see occur in the courts, the government investigative agencies, and the law profession in the coming year.
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