By Ben Hancock | April 26, 2017
While social media profiles can present a trove of data points for jury selection, the ethics and legality of researching jurors online depends heavily on jurisdiction.
By Leigh Jones | April 25, 2017
With a blog that tracks lawyer misconduct cases nationwide and posts the results of their adjudication, Mike Frisch has a perspective of the legal profession that few share.
By Sue Reisinger | April 25, 2017
A panel sponsored by the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security explored those lines in a webcast Tuesday. "Whistleblowers, Leaks and the Media: The Legal Rules" included lawyers and journalists who have been caught up in national security issues.
By Ross Todd | April 21, 2017
Attorneys must refrain from using apparently privileged documents, regardless of when or how they were received, the Fourth District says.
By Cheryl Miller | April 19, 2017
California judges and their spouses should not hold a financial interest in marijuana enterprises, even though medical and recreational cannabis use is legal in California, a state Supreme Court ethics committee said in a formal opinion Wednesday.
By Lizzy McLellan | April 18, 2017
For many midsize firms, success means more complexity.
By Ross Todd | April 18, 2017
Legal fee awards resulting from acts of bad faith in litigation must be causally linked to the underlying misconduct, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
By Max Mitchell | April 14, 2017
The Philadelphia-area attorney hit with nearly $1 million in sanctions that were later reversed has alleged that the attorneys who pursued those sanctions only did so to inflate attorney fees in the underlying medical malpractice case.
By Cheryl Miller | April 11, 2017
Alameda County Superior Court Judge Tara Flanagan was admonished by the state's judicial discipline agency Tuesday for failing to report the actual source of $25,000 in loans to her successful 2012 campaign.
By Brian Baxter | April 9, 2017
He was not quite Whitey Bulger, but federal prosecutors in Boston announced Friday the arrest in Florida of Scott Wolas, a disbarred lawyer accused of perpetrating a $1.5 million real estate investment fraud in Massachusetts. Wolas, booted from Hunton & Williams in 1995, has been on the run for two decades.
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