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The Legal Intelligencer

High Court Split Lets Ballot Question Wording Stand

A deadlocked Pennsylvania Supreme Court has allowed the proposed wording of a ballot question that could raise the mandatory judicial retirement age to stand in its current form.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

In re Pollack, PICS Case No. 16-1058 (Pa. Aug. 10, 2016) per curiam (60 pages).

By | September 02, 2016
A 26-year veteran of the law profession with a small private practice slipped into sloppy bookkeeping and timekeeping under time periods of severe stress. A combination of being the sole trial lawyer and financial manager, with serious familial injuries and ongoing medical needs, lack of assistance in the practice, plus his own worsening health issues led to lapses in concentration that allowed overpayment of fees and disbursements in his accounting. Ultimately a bounced check on an IOLTA account triggered an audit that uncovered periods of discovery and rectification of errors on his own volition. Noting that the misconduct was serious, but in view of the mitigating circumstances the ODC recommending discipline of four years suspension, stayed, with four years of probation conditioned on rectified accounting practices.
6 minute read

The Recorder

Finger-Pointing Follows Demise of Calif. State Bar Bill

Bar leaders will ask the Supreme Court for an order allowing dues collection.
11 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

It's Not a Good Idea to Get Too Close to Criminal Defendants

Can I counsel a client how not to be caught in criminal activity?
12 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Threatening Criminal Charges to Gain Advantage Comes With Limitations

Charles Dickens wrote that "if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers." This quote is particularly apt when a lawyer is confronted with the possibility that an opposing party has committed a criminal or fraudulent act, and is confronted with the question of whether the lawyer may use the threat of criminal prosecution to gain an advantage for a client in a civil matter.
12 minute read

Legaltech News

Note to Lawyers from ILTA: You're Ethically Obligated to Understand Technology

The time is now for lawyers to learn technology based on the ABA Model Rules said a panel at ILTACON.
10 minute read

New York Law Journal

Advice From Law Firm's In-House Counsel Found Shielded by Privilege

Jennifer H. Rearden and Sharon I. Grysman explore the decision in 'Stock v. Schnader Harrison', that communications among "attorneys who have sought the advice of their law firm's in-house general counsel on their ethical obligations in representing a firm client" during the representation of that client are "not subject to disclosure"—even where "the consultation at issue...might have extended to whether [the firm]...was potentially liable...for malpractice."
18 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Tips for Meeting Your Mobile Device Ethical Obligations

With the controversy over various security aspects of phones and tablets, what are practicing lawyers' ethical obligations, and are we doing enough to protect our client(s)' confidences?
9 minute read

The Recorder

Bar Leaders Fear 'Disruption' After Lawmakers Don't Pass Dues Bill

The state Legislature gaveled down its 2016 session late Wednesday without enacting a state bar bill, leaving the largest lawyer-regulating agency in the country with no immediate authority to collect dues in 2017. "My hope is that the Supreme Court will act promptly and allow us to avoid significant disruption to our public protection mission," executive director Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker told bar employees Thursday.
5 minute read

The American Lawyer

Do Lawyers Enable Money-Laundering?

The ABA continues to fight to shield lawyers from having to report suspicious money transfers.
25 minute read

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