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The Legal Intelligencer

Ethics Forum: Questions and Answers on Professional Responsibility

Being corporate counsel or assistant corporate counsel to a multi-state business sometimes creates ethical issues for the general counsel.
20 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Lawyer's Pledge of Expected Fee Is an Account Receivable, Court Says

An attorney's pledge of anticipated counsel fees to pay off a debt can be considered an account receivable under the Uniform Commercial Code, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday.
9 minute read

Daily Report Online

High Court Declines to Rethink Rulings in Waffle House Appeals

The Supreme Court of Georgia rejects motions for reconsideration, sticking with its decisions to reinstate criminal charges against two metro Atlanta lawyers and their client and letting the lawyers' disqualification stand in the Waffle House sex tape saga.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Appeals Court Affirms Dismissal of Starr Gern Malpractice Suit

Starr, Gern, Davison & Rubin is not liable for malpractice in a case where an ex-client claimed it failed to provide material information obtained in discovery and misrepresented the underlying claim as meritless, says a New Jersey appeals court.
6 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Texas Businessman Sues Houston Lawyer, Firms, Alleging They Mishandled Lawsuit

Stephen Morrow filed a negligence suit against Houston lawyer Kevin Hood and two firms, alleging they mishandled a negligence suit Morrow filed against another Houston firm.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

After an Earthquake, More Tremors

Recently I wrote of a Judiciary Law §487 case in the Northern District of New York that violently altered the basic understanding of the elements…
8 minute read

Daily Report Online

More Than a Dozen Lawyers Now on Board in Waffle House Sex Tape Saga

Eight attorneys representing metro Atlanta lawyers David Cohen, John Butters and client Mye Brindle are facing off against Fulton County's district attorney and two Marietta lawyers representing Waffle House chairman Joe Rogers Jr. in a tangle of criminal and civil litigation centering on a five-year-old covert sex tape.
4 minute read

International Edition

Judgment in Landmark Locke Lord Case Reveals Details of Partner's 'Dubious' Investment Scheme, Airport Arrest

The judgment shows that ex-Locke Lord partner Jonathan Denton was arrested at Birmingham Airport in 2015 after questions arose over a two-and-a-half-year investment scheme.
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Challenge to Sills Cummis' Retainer Arb Clause Turned Back

In a case that seeks to raise questions about the limits of arbitration clauses in law firm retainer agreements, a New Jersey judge has declined…
8 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Archer & Greiner Granted Choice-of-Law Appeal in Legal Malpractice Suit

The Supreme Court of New Jersey has granted Archer & Greiner leave to appeal a ruling subjecting it to New Jersey's six-year statute of limitations…
20 minute read

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