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The Legal Intelligencer

Ethics Forum: Questions and Answers on Professional Responsibility

What is one of the more recent issues that are raising concerns with the Office of Disciplinary Counsel in terms of attorneys?
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

Hollering Justice (and Judges)

Does society need retribution in the form of a judge pointing her finger at the defendant using the same kind of invective that one might see—and, indeed, expect—from an individual victim?
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Justice Sonia Sotomayor Charms Crowd of Law Students, Lawyers, Judges

The Supreme Court justice spoke at the University of Houston Law Center, commenting on legal education, the quality of lawyers who argue before the Supreme Court and the intersection of politics and the law.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Ethics Complaint Charges NJ Municipal Judge With Touting Position During DWI Arrest

A municipal court judge in New Jersey is charged with trying to use the power of his office to talk his way out of a drunken driving charge.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Ethics Forum: Questions and Answers on Professional Responsibility

I am a newly elected judicial officer. What is the most important aspect of consideration in being a judge?
16 minute read

National Law Journal

Neil Gorsuch Dines With US Senators, and It's the Talk of This Town

"It was a private dinner, but I think about it as a return to civility in Washington, something we could use more of," Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, who hosted the dinner, reportedly said in response to questions about the gathering.
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

NJ Judge Used Status in Bid to Cut Child Support, Ethics Complaint Charges

The judge “created the risk that his judicial office would be an influential factor” in the handling of his family matter, Disciplinary Counsel Maureen Bauman's complaint said. In so doing, he “impugned the integrity of the judiciary.”
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Vance to Eschew Donations From Lawyers With Business Before DA's Office

Months after weathering criticism over dropping investigations into two high-profile targets with lawyers who contributed to his election campaign, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. announced that he will no longer take donations from attorneys with business before his office.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Honoring Professor Geoffrey Hazard

We have all taken courses on professional responsibility in law school and now must take an ethics component of mandatory continuing legal education. And we do because Professor Hazard pressed to have the subject as part of the core curriculum.
2 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Ex-Judge Disbarred for Stealing Cocaine Out of Evidence

The former Washington County judge who founded the county's drug court has been disbarred from the practice of law for stealing cocaine out of the court's evidence locker.
3 minute read

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