By Adolfo Pesquera | April 19, 2024
"Subjecting Paxton to disciplinary proceedings does not violate separation of powers; immunizing him does," Justice Erin Nowell wrote for the majority.
By Cheryl Miller | April 19, 2024
The proceedings against former State Bar of California Executive Director Joe Dunn recalled when the organization was both a regulatory agency responsible for disciplining lawyers and an advocacy entity for the profession.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | April 18, 2024
A Surrogate's Court judge is not required to remove a Public Administrator who has served for many years if an associate in the Public Administrator's law firm marries the child of a New York State judge.
By Adolfo Pesquera | April 18, 2024
The appeals court cited numerous critical errors in the Commission for Lawyer Discipline's exhibits in a case against attorney Sidney Powell, a key figure in former President Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election results.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | April 17, 2024
(1) A town justice may not grant permission to the town court clerks to use the town court's courtroom to film for-profit training videos. (2) Whether some other person or entity may grant such permission raises legal and administrative questions we cannot answer.
Connecticut Law Tribune | Commentary
By Connecticut Law Tribune Editorial Board | April 17, 2024
That a lawyer can keep more than $225,000 in unclaimed money in his or her IOLTA account indefinitely is insane. But the current rules in Connecticut allow it.
By Cheryl Miller | April 17, 2024
University of California at Berkeley School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky called Dunn a man of "impeccable" integrity, even as former state bar trustees suggested the former bar executive was less than truthful about his 2014 trip to Mongolia.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | April 16, 2024
Where a not-for-profit entity engages in some activities clearly permissible for judges as well as some potentially controversial lobbying, advocacy and litigation activities, a judge may not participate in a voter registration drive organized by that entity.
By Cheryl Miller | April 16, 2024
Former California State Bar Executive Director Joe Dunn testified that agency leaders besides himself used bar funds to pay for trips to international destinations such as Macedonia, El Salvador and Peru.
By Eden Landow | April 16, 2024
The court issued one attorney discipline opinion Tuesday.
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