Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline

  • Law.com

    Legal Malpractice Claim Filed Against Attorney's Estate After His Death

    By Marianna Wharry | March 6, 2024

    This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM's source for immediate alerting on just-filed cases in state and federal courts. Law.com Radar now offers state court coverage nationwide. Sign up today and be among the first to know about new suits in your region, practice area or client sector.

  • New York Law Journal | Letter to the Editor

    Recent Law Journal Column Offers Timely Analysis of Law School Curricula

    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.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 23-74

    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.

  • Daily Report Online | News

    Supreme Court of Georgia Disbars 1 Lawyer, Accepts 1 Petition for Interim Suspension

    By Eden Landow | March 5, 2024

    The high court issued two attorney discipline opinions Tuesday.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 23-73

    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.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 23-72

    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.

  • Texas Lawyer

    9 Lawyers Disciplined, Including a District Attorney

    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.

  • Daily Report Online | News

    UPDATED: McAfee Says He Will Rule Within 2 Weeks on Bid to Remove Fulton DA From Trump 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

    Disciplinary Board Proposes Mandatory Succession Planning for Pa. Lawyers

    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.

  • Daily Business Review | News

    Ex-Foley & Lardner Adviser Alleged of Being Cuban Spy Signals Guilty Plea in Court

    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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