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New Jersey Law Journal

NJ Attorney, Father Face Charges of Stealing Client Funds

Attorney Michael Kwasnik and his father have been indicted over a $13 million Ponzi scheme.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Year's Suspension for Attorney Who Used Client's $500 to Pay Bills

Mishandling $500 in a landlord-tenant dispute led to a one-year suspension for attorney Michael E. Wynn.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

There Aren't Many Advantages To Going on Retired Status

I am an older practicing lawyer and I see I can place my law license on a retirement status. What are the advantages or disadvantages of doing so?
18 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Ethics Rule Has Lit Funders Treading Carefully in Class Actions

Some industry players are steering clear of class actions because of a ban on attorneys sharing fees with nonlawyers. Others are willing to invest but structure their deals to avoid the rule.
23 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

It's True—All This Craziness Is Good

By | February 15, 2017
Like him or hate him (the Republic seems to be evenly split on that issue), you have to admit that President Trump's blunderbuss approach to the presidency has created a huge interest among the governed in what's happening in the government. We've gone from "No Drama Obama" to "Donald the Disruptor."
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

Defining the 'Practice of Law' After 'Matter of Brandes'

Chris McDonough discusses Joel Brandes' recent attempts to be reinstated to the New York bar and whether his performing paralegal services for attorneys from his home in Florida during his disbarment constituted the practice of law.
20 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 16-134

By | February 14, 2017
A full-time court attorney-referee may not work part-time as a real estate agent.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 16-122

By | February 14, 2017
Provided he/she can be fair and impartial, a judge may preside in cases involving an attorney who represented his/her third-degree relative on other matters. Disclosure is not required.
7 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

$5M Case Illustrates Woes of Fee-Sharing Agreement Gone Bad

A fee-sharing dispute in a $5 million personal injury case could serve as a template and cautionary tale about what can go wrong when lawyers fail to attend to the details when entering into fee-splitting agreements.
9 minute read

The American Lawyer

Yo, Where's Don McGahn?

The White House counsel seems missing in action amid the ever-mounting conflicts of interest involving this presidency.
12 minute read

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