By Marianna Wharry | March 6, 2024
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New York Law Journal | Letter to the Editor
By Alani Golanski | March 6, 2024
For instance, law schools could more pointedly offer interdisciplinary rule-of-law—and pedagogy as broadly as they have included law—and subjects within their curricula, a Law Journal columnist writes.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | March 5, 2024
Provided the judge concludes he/she can be fair and impartial, the judge need not disqualify from a case merely because (a) the complainant is a long-time professional acquaintance of the judge and (b) the defendant has attempted to contact the judge ex parte, accused the judge of corruption and bigotry, threatened the judge's career, and implicitly threatened the judge's family. However, the judge should disclose on the record the substance of any threats of violence by the defendant that were received ex parte.
By Eden Landow | March 5, 2024
The high court issued two attorney discipline opinions Tuesday.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | March 4, 2024
May a judge serve as the secretary-treasurer of a not-for-profit organization which owns and operates a cemetery for the descendants of Jewish immigrants? The position oversees investments, maintains a checking account, sends out meeting notices with the annual dues notice, and deposits all funds received. The organization does no fund-raising.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | March 3, 2024
(1) Where the judge's former law student intern has been hired by a local law firm as a summer associate, and that firm is now appearing before the judge on a case the former intern worked on during the internship, but has notified all parties that the former intern will be insulated from the case, the judge may preside in the case after making full disclosure of the relationship to all parties on the record. (2) The judge is not prohibited from speaking to the former intern on non-work matters during the pendency of the case.
By Adolfo Pesquera | March 1, 2024
According to the District 12 Grievance Committee report, Ramirez denied to the Office of the Chief Disciplinary Counsel he was aware of the facts of the case.
By Kate Brumback and Alanna Durkin Richer | The Associated Press | March 1, 2024
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump and other defendants say the DA paid the special prosecutor large sums for his work and then improperly benefited when he paid for vacations for the two of them.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Amanda O'Brien | March 1, 2024
"The future is unpredictable and lawyers must strive to lessen the impact of unexpected interruption to their relationships with clients by proactively protecting the clients' interested in the event of the attorney's death, disability, or other unanticipated absence," the board's explanatory report reads.
By Alexander Lugo | March 1, 2024
Victor Manuel Rocha, a former U.S. diplomat and adviser in Foley & Lardner's Miami office, indicated he's pleading guilty to two counts of conspiring to act as an agent of a foreign government after his arrest in December.
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