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Canadian Judicial Council Urges Caution in New Social Media Guidelines for Judges

The new guidelines issued by the federal body that oversees the Canadian judiciary offers detailed advice to the nation's judges about safe and appropriate use of social media.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Disbarred Ex-Blank Rome Attorney Accused of Forging Judicial Signatures

Jared Klein moved from Blank Rome to Nochumson PC earlier this year. Nochumson's managing shareholder said that he fired the attorney and reported him to disciplinary authorities after learning of the allegations.
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

Too Slow? Judge Investigated After Cases Drag On for Years

The judge's "conduct ... amounts to willful misconduct in office; a willful and persistent failure to perform the duties of office," according to the Judicial Qualifications Commission of Georgia charging document.
4 minute read

The Recorder

The Ethics of Freelance Lawyering, Part 1: Duty to Inform the Client and Fees Charged to the Client/Upcharging

"California case law establishes that the amount a law firm pays to a freelance attorney is irrelevant to whether a fee is unconscionable," write Erin Giglia and Laurie Rowen, founders of Montage Legal Group.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 23-243

(1) A judge who receives reliable information indicating a substantial likelihood that his/her co-judge has used a seemingly unaffiliated attorney to represent clients on certain cases that originated in their court, and arranged for those cases to be assigned to himself/herself, must report the co-judge to the Commission on Judicial Conduct. (2) If the judge further concludes, based on the information already known to him/her, that this seemingly unaffiliated attorney is an associate of the co-judge or is otherwise undertaking eviction work on behalf of the co-judge, the inquiring judge cannot accept eviction papers filed by that attorney. (3) The judge should consider whether he/she has received information indicating a substantial likelihood that the seemingly unaffiliated attorney has committed a substantial violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct; if so, the judge must take appropriate action.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 23-242

(1) A judge has no ethical duty to investigate allegations from the court attorney's former romantic partner about the court attorney's conduct before working for the judge. (2) Where the court attorney has admitted certain allegations which, in the judge's view, constitute substantial professional misconduct, the judge must take appropriate action. (3) With respect to other allegations of a more personal and private nature, the judge need not take any action unless the judge concludes he/she has received information indicating a substantial likelihood that the attorney has committed a substantial violation of Rules of Professional Conduct. (4) On these facts, the judge has no ethical obligation to report the court attorney to the grievance committee or terminate the court attorney's employment.
10 minute read

Daily Report Online

When to Say Goodbye to a Client

The decision to end a representation can be a difficult one. But many lawyers who have had to defend against legal malpractice claims often note a time in the underlying client representation when they knew something was "off"
6 minute read

Law.com

Ex-Assistant State Attorney Suspended for One Year for Dishonesty on Judicial Application, Job Interviews

"If respondent's colleagues had believed him, and had hired him based on his statements during the interview, it would have damaged the criminal justice system," the hearing board's report said.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 23-241

Where a Lieutenant in the sheriff's office serves on the town board: (1) a town justice is ordinarily disqualified, subject to remittal, in matters involving the Lieutenant and any deputy sheriffs under that Lieutenant's supervision; but (2) the judge need not disqualify if he/she is satisfied that a town board resolution or other legal requirement prohibits the Lieutenant from voting or participating in deliberations on any town court matters.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Albany Judge Orders New Trial for Manslaughter Case Where Defense Counsel Met Secretly With Law Clerk

Albany Supreme Court Justice Roger McDonough ruled that defendant Gregory Thayer, who is serving a 25-year prison sentence for killing his best friend, would receive a new trial based on ineffective assistance of counsel
4 minute read

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