In a rare Perry Mason moment, one Texas jury was stunned to hear that the entire contents of Alex Jones’s cell phone were inadvertently produced in a defamation suit against Jones and his conspiracy theory website, InfoWars. And it appears that as a result of that erroneous production, Jones was caught in a web of lies that cost him the case. So what becomes of Jones’s lawyer and legal team that produced the cell phone contents? What ethics rules are implicated under the Texas Rules of Professional Conduct? Under the Model Rules? This article explores these questions and how practitioners can avoid confronting the same issues in their own practices.

The 2012 Sandy Hook shooting rocked the nation. After murdering his mother at his home, 20-year old Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, before taking his own life. It is considered one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history. Within months of the shooting, Alex Jones, host of radio and web-based news programming, including “The Alex Jones Show,” claimed the shooting was “staged.”

This content has been archived. It is available through our partners, LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law.

To view this content, please continue to their sites.

Not a Lexis Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Not a Bloomberg Law Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Why am I seeing this?

LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law are third party online distributors of the broad collection of current and archived versions of ALM's legal news publications. LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law customers are able to access and use ALM's content, including content from the National Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Legaltech News, The New York Law Journal, and Corporate Counsel, as well as other sources of legal information.

For questions call 1-877-256-2472 or contact us at [email protected]