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The Legal Intelligencer

Policy Statement Offers Further Guidance on Contributions to Judges

I am running for judicial office next year. A lawyer has just recently given me $2,500 for my Common Pleas Court race. Will I have to recuse myself if I am elected and the lawyer appears before me?
20 minute read

Daily Report Online

Ga. High Court Reprimands House Speaker Ralston for Bar Rule Violations

A unanimous Georgia Supreme Court has accepted a special master's recommendation that state House Speaker David Ralston receive a public reprimand to resolve a bar grievance filed by two former clients, a married couple, over his handling of their case.
6 minute read

The American Lawyer

Big Law's Naughty Dad? Tiffany at Harvard Law? This Is Not Fake News

Folks, I can't make this stuff up.
19 minute read

New York Law Journal

Penalties Affirmed Against Lawyer Over Opinion Letters

A federal appeals court has upheld an order requiring an attorney to pay more than $200,000 for issuing false opinion letters supporting impermissible public offerings of penny stocks.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Lawyer's Booted Porsche Suit Draws Over $56K in Sanctions; Bar Complaint Nixed

Attorney James Potts II said he was fighting a predatory and illegal practice after his Porsche was booted in a parking complex.
14 minute read

Daily Business Review

After Shooting, Lawyer's Fake Twitter Account Presses 'Pizzagate' Conspiracy

A bizarre internet conspiracy theory exploded into the real world on Sunday when a North Carolina man packed up his weapons, drove to a pizza parlor in Washington, D.C., and set out to “self-investigate” claims that Hillary Clinton and other top Democrats were hiding child sex slaves in secret tunnels there.
11 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 16-47

By | December 06, 2016
A non-judge who is a judicial candidate in his/her window period may not serve on a local bar association's screening panel evaluating applicants for appointment to state or federal judicial office.
12 minute read

The American Lawyer

After Shooting, Lawyer's Fake Twitter Account Presses 'Pizzagate' Conspiracy

Do lawyers have a special responsibility not to perpetuate fake news?
10 minute read

Daily Report Online

Suit Accusing Lawyer of Phony Loan Scheme Dismissed Without Prejudice

A trio of lawyers seeking more than $245,000 from a fellow attorney have dropped the lawsuit they filed earlier this year accusing YES Law Group partner Yehuda Smolar and his firm of using a phony line of credit and "loan fee" with a co-defendant to avoid paying the eight-year-old debt.
7 minute read

Daily Business Review

Broward Judge to Appear Before Florida High Court for Public Reprimand

Broward Circuit Judge John Contini faces public reprimand Feb. 7.
5 minute read

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