Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline

  • New York Law Journal

    Airbnb Files Ethics Complaint Over Hotel-Backed Lobbying in NY

    By Josefa Velasquez | July 17, 2017

    Airbnb filed a formal complaint Monday with New York state's ethics panel against a hotel industry-backed group for allegedly failing to register as a lobbyist, to disclose how it is funded and to report lobbying expenses or file the necessary lobbying reports.

  • The American Lawyer

    Linklaters Associate Is Latest Big Firm Lawyer Tied to Insider Trading Charges

    By Roy Strom | July 12, 2017

    Fei Yan, 31, was arrested on Wednesday on insider trading charges in a case that alleges he profited from knowledge garnered by his wife, a Linklaters associate working on M&A deals.

  • The American Lawyer

    Trump Lawyer Marc Kasowitz Denies ProPublica Report on Alcohol Abuse

    By Katelyn Polantz | July 12, 2017

    Besides the political drama amid probes into the Trump campaign's Russia ties, the report may have special resonance in a legal industry struggling with substance abuse issues.

  • New York Law Journal

    'Nobody Saw' Admonishment That Should Have Demoted Acting Justice

    By B. Colby Hamilton | July 5, 2017

    An acting state Supreme Court justice was allowed to remain in his position for 10 months after being admonished by the state's Commission on Judicial Conduct, despite administrative rules barring disciplined acting justices from doing so.

  • New York Law Journal

    Client Intake: Know Your Client—Or Else

    By Anthony E. Davis | July 3, 2017

    In his Professional Responsibility column, Anthony E. Davis discusses two cases while exploring an issue critical to lawyers' and law firms' professional and business interests: What information about a new client does a lawyer need to obtain in order to make sensible decisions about whether or not to proceed?

  • New York Law Journal

    Justice Resigns Amid Probe Into Off-Bench Behavior

    By Rebecca Baker | June 26, 2017

    A 70-year-old town justice accused of behaving belligerently toward an ex-girlfriend, including threatening to prosecute her, will step down from the bench at the end of the month.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 17-48

    By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | June 23, 2017

    The inquiring part-time attorney judge must report to the Commission on Judicial Conduct that another judge, while presiding over a case, threatened to file a disciplinary complaint against the inquirer unless the inquirer's client settled the case for a particular sum.

  • New York Law Journal

    Mishandled Reports, Funds Prompts Judge to Resign

    By Rebecca Baker | June 22, 2017

    A former upstate Town Court justice accused of mishandling court funds and records has agreed never to seek or accept judicial office, the Commission on Judicial Conduct said Thursday.

  • New York Law Journal

    Village Justice Convicted of Felony Agrees to Resign

    By Rebecca Baker | June 21, 2017

    A former village justice in Rockland County who was appointed to the bench last year despite his 1978 felony conviction has agreed to resign, the Commission on Judicial Conduct announced Wednesday.

  • New York Law Journal

    Is Counsel 'Obligated' to Seek a Judge's Recusal?

    By Joel Cohen | June 12, 2017

    In his Ethics and Criminal Practice column, Joel Cohen writes: Some defense attorneys (usually on the fringe and more so years ago) have been willing to "bait" judges. They engage the (prosecution-friendly?) judge and cause him to react, creating a palpable bias against counsel and client—a deliberate ploy to create sympathy, or justify recusal. Or these attorneys try their case, in part, by confronting the judge, particularly when the jury is seated, in a manner designed to induce error. But what about when recusal is warranted—can a failure to move constitute "ineffective assistance"? Consider the disturbing facts of a recent Third Circuit case.

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