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Four South Florida Lawyers Disciplined by Supreme Court

The Florida Supreme Court disciplines four Broward County attorneys.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

The Office of Disciplinary Counsel is Enforcing New Recordkeeping Requirements.

Are the recordkeeping requirements set forth in the Rules of Professional Conduct and the Rules of Disciplinary Enforcement being enforced?
19 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 16-130

By | January 30, 2017
Where a judge's spouse, as director of government relations, helps select a law firm to handle lobbying and works directly with the law firm's lobbyists, the judge is disqualified, subject to remittal, from matters involving that law firm. The obligation lasts for the duration of the attorney-client relationship between the spouse's employer and the law firm, but terminates when the relationship ends.
11 minute read

The Recorder

Judge Sanctions Lawyer Accused of Tossing Coffee at Opposing Counsel During Deposition

Valeria Calafiore Healy must pay her opponent $250 for belongings that were damaged in the great coffee kerfuffle of 2016.
6 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Disgraced Ex-Waco Judge Has Been Punished Enough, US Judicial Committee Rules

Even though it previously ruled than an investigation into sexual harassment allegations against former U.S. District Judge Walter Smith was warranted, a Judicial Conference Committee has decided that no further punishment of the disgraced Waco jurist is neccesary because he retired from the bench. Smith was originally punished by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit's Judicial Council in 2015 after they concluded he made unwanted sexual advances against a female court employee in 1998. The Fifth Circuit ordered Smith to undergo sensitivity training and suspended his new case assignments for a year.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Long Island Lawyer Disbarred in Wake of Bank Fraud Conviction

Huntington attorney Wally Duval pleaded guilty in 2014 for her part in a mortgage fraud scheme in which home loans were being obtained by misrepresenting buyers' income and falsely claiming title to properties not owned by the seller.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 16-136

By | January 26, 2017
A judge, about to retire fully from the Unified Court System, may agree to be the guest of honor at a not-for-profit entity's fund-raising dinner that will take place after his/her retirement, provided the judge's participation is not announced or publicized until after his/her retirement is effective.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 16-124

By | January 26, 2017
A judge may mentor a high school student through a not-for-profit mentorship program, subject to generally applicable limitations on judicial speech and conduct.
9 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Secret Advice to Judge, Forgery Get NJ Attorney Censured

An attorney who offered legal advice to a family court judge before whom he had active cases—an arrangement that led to the judge's suspension in 2014—has been disciplined by the New Jersey Supreme Court for his conduct, which included forging another lawyer's signature to conceal the arrangement.
9 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Consumer Protection Dept. Steps Back Into Attorney Regulation

My concern is, with many folks regulating the same thing, lawyers may be whipsawed between differing and competing interpretations of laws, rules and opinions. If I bring my ad to the Grievance Committee and obtain an advisory opinion that it is OK, does Consumer Protection still have power to say that it is not?
8 minute read

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