The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Riley Brennan | January 12, 2024
U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania held that the issue of counsel paying for their client's living expenses didn't warrant disqualifying the attorney, concluding a potential ethical violation didn't require disqualification.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | January 11, 2024
A town justice may accept an invitation from the town board to attend a town board meeting and address questions "for public information" concerning the court's procedures and limitations with respect to the collection of fees and court security, to help explain and clarify the court's role in these matters. The judge may not comment on any pending or impending cases and should be careful not to cast doubt on their integrity, impartiality, and independence in adjudicating matters that could result in revenue for the town.
By Michael A. Mora | January 11, 2024
"All these improper appeals to emotion and inflamed passions are a bad faith trial tactic, designed to prejudice the trier of fact in the case in the act of despicable gamesmanship," Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Betsy Alvarez-Zane wrote in a 75-page referee report.
By Lisa Willis | January 11, 2024
A governor's spokesman called the federal appeals court decision "an egregious encroachment on state sovereignty."
By Allison Dunn | January 11, 2024
"Conway ignored their ethical and contractual obligation to Smith, which is a basis of Smith's legal malpractice claim. It was improper for the trial court to resolve this issue in favor of Conway on summary judgment by finding that there was an implied contract for the Chapter 7 representation," Virginia Court of Appeals Judge Doris Henderson Causey wrote in a dissenting opinion.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | January 10, 2024
Where a judge's spouse is the Corporation Counsel and thus the head of the agency and/or attorney of record for the office: (1) In general, the judge must disqualify from any case involving the Corporation Counsel's office. However, this disqualification may be subject to remittal after full disclosure on the record, provided the judge's spouse remains permanently absent from the courtroom.
By Amanda Bronstad | January 10, 2024
U.S. District Judge Josephine Staton, who on Jan. 2 found Girardi competent to stand trial, rejected arguments from Girardi's lawyers to push the trial into next year.
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By Lisa Willis | January 10, 2024
"When you keep it in and just deal with it yourself, it's never going go well," said a suspended Florida attorney now in drug rehab.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | January 9, 2024
Where a judge was represented by private counsel in a hybrid Article 78 proceeding that has since concluded, must the judge continue to disclose or disqualify in matters involving the judge's private attorneys and/or other members of their law firm?
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | January 8, 2024
(1) For two years after the representation is completely terminated and all fees are paid, a judge is disqualified, subject to remittal, from all matters in which an attorney who personally represented the judge appears before the judge, and the judge must disclose the former representation when other attorneys from the same law firm appear before the judge.
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