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By Samuel C. Stretton | November 16, 2017
Being corporate counsel or assistant corporate counsel to a multi-state business sometimes creates ethical issues for the general counsel.
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By Committee on Judicial Ethics | November 16, 2017
A judge may not directly or indirectly solicit property owners, car rental agencies, or food merchants on behalf of the Red Cross. However, the judge may use his/her skills as a logistics expert to plan and to manage supplies or donations as they are received and may also purchase items for disaster relief with a donated debit card, provided the judge does not solicit such a card. These principles apply without geographic limitation.
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By Cogan Schneier | November 15, 2017
The ABA rated Trump's Eighth Circuit nominee, Steven Grasz, as unqualified last month.
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By Cogan Schneier | November 15, 2017
Justice Don Willett, dubbed the Texas "Tweeter Laureate," could not escape that title Wednesday in a Senate hearing on his nomination to a powerful…
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By Greg Land | November 14, 2017
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed has replaced Interim Municipal Public Defender Rosalie Joy with Kenneth Days III, who has served as the office's managing attorney since 2008. Civil rights groups and attorneys have decried what they said was an effort to oust Joy by some Municipal Court judges angered by her efforts to keep indigent defendants out of jail.
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By Jenna Greene | November 13, 2017
In the Trump administration, disclosure is for suckers. Just ask the nominee for the Middle District of Alabama, who neglected to mention that his wife is a senior White House lawyer.
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By Katheryn Tucker | November 9, 2017
They might not be the kind of judges most people think of as heading traffic court. The 20 who took three days of classes on the law governing field sobriety tests and other types of evidence were not state court traffic judges. They are probate judges.
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By Samuel C. Stretton | November 9, 2017
A previous article by this writer suggested that it would not be unethical to file a complaint even though the lawyer knew the statute of limitations had passed because in Pennsylvania, the statute of limitations must be raised as an affirmative defense.
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By John Council | November 8, 2017
An El Paso state district judge has been reprimanded for mishandling contempt proceedings against lawyers and threatening them with arrest — including…
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By John Council | November 7, 2017
The State Commission on Judicial Conduct has suspended Corpus Christi state district court judge Guy Williams from the bench without pay after he was…
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