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The Legal Intelligencer

Rule 1.7 Prohibits Concurrent Conflicts of Interest

Can a lawyer represent someone in litigation when the other side is represented by a relative or a spouse?
15 minute read

Daily Report Online

Why Atticus Finch Is an Unreliable Lawyer

A retired plaintiffs attorney offers a literary and legal analysis of the character of Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird," finding that he not only failed his client, Tom Robinson, he doomed him. Today, Robinson would have one basis for an appeal: ineffective assistance of counsel.
14 minute read

New York Law Journal

Legal Fees: What Happens When Principles of Law or Ethics Conflict?

In his Professional Responsibility column, Anthony E. Davis reviews the Court of Appeals decision on whether to enforce the plain language of a contract between two lawyers for sharing legal fees when the lawyers had not complied with the requirements of the Rules of Professional Conduct, and a New York City Bar ethics opinion on reconciling the duty to report a lawyer's fraudulent billing and the duty to preserve confidentiality.
18 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Pa. Justices Consider Arguments in Push to Recuse Full County Bench

The underlying case involves a claim that all the judges on the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas bench should have recused themselves in a case that financially benefited one of the judges.
9 minute read

Daily Report Online

What the Supreme Court Changed in the Professional Conduct Rules

Changes to the professional conduct rules address mistakenly-sent documents, conflicts of interest and managing assistants.
10 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 16-133

By | March 08, 2017
A judge may preside in matters involving an attorney who hosted a single fund-raiser for the judge's law clerk's election campaign, but must insulate the law clerk and disclose the insulation during the campaign. This obligation ends on Election Day.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Ethics Charges for Judge Who Used Attack Ads in Election

Judge Dana Santino defended campaign materials that tarred her 2016 opponent for his work as a criminal defense lawyer.
7 minute read

Texas Lawyer

After Racist Rant, Houston Lawyer Agrees to Pay $1,800 to Minority Bar Association

Gary Riebschlager referred to a South Asian defendant as "POS Paki" in an email and called for his deportation, invoking the name of Donald Trump.
9 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

NJ Judge Hit With Ethics Complaint for Alleged Staff Misuse, Hidden Recording

A New Jersey judge is facing ethics charges for allegedly making a new law clerk work off-the-clock for no pay, secretly taping conversations and having her secretary perform personal tasks.
10 minute read

The American Lawyer

USPTO Suspends Former Niro Junior IP Attorney for 18 Months

Former Niro lawyer David Mahalek represented Intellect Wireless, which was found to have misled the PTO to obtain its patents related to displaying caller ID on wireless phones.
9 minute read

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