By Allison Dunn | November 22, 2022
"We recognize how respondent's mental impairment affected his client representation, and we afford it due mitigating weight," Justice Elizabeth D. Walker wrote on behalf of the court. "We also commend his actions to address it, and we acknowledge his continued efforts toward mental health recovery. But his impairment does not insulate him from meaningful sanctions."
By Lindsey Tanner | The Associated Press | November 18, 2022
Abortion crackdowns enacted or enforced since Roe v. Wade was overturned in June illustrate the dichotomy. In at least eight states that allow exemptions for life-threatening conditions, physical health is the focus. The mother's mental health is not included.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Michelle Gonzalez, Samantha Anthony, Kristine Grady Derewicz and Brian O. Sumner | November 17, 2022
This Children's Grief Awareness Day, attorneys should seek to understand the impacts of grieving youth in the juvenile justice system.
By Ross Todd | November 17, 2022
"We can all help overcome this stigma by acknowledging that this distress to one's mental health is a common human condition, requiring simply compassion, patience, and heartfelt support," said Thomas Leff, a trial lawyer based in Wilmington, Delaware, during a web discussion sponsored by ABOTA.
By Allison Dunn | November 16, 2022
"While I respect the dissenters' view as well, they get caught up in the prior misconduct. They can't get beyond it. ... When the rubber meets the road, we're going to have to make some tough decision whether we really believe in rehabilitation," said Kevin Bank, who represented Zachary Stevens in challenging his denial to the bar association.
By Brad Kutner | November 15, 2022
D.C. Superior Court Judges Juliet McKenna and Peter Krauthamer expressed concern following Kavita Kalsy's application to join the city's Criminal Justice Act Panel.
By Amanda Bronstad | November 9, 2022
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, on Wednesday, rejected a proposed leadership team in the multidistrict litigation alleging social media sites like Facebook and TikTok caused addiction, then questioned 24 plaintiffs lawyers one by one.
By Allison Dunn | October 19, 2022
"Carr's unprecedented misconduct involved more than 100 stipulated incidents that occurred over a period of approximately two years and encompassed repeated acts of dishonesty; the blatant and systematic disregard of due process, the law, court orders, and local rules; the disrespectful treatment of court staff and litigants; and the abuse of capias warrants and the court's contempt power. That misconduct warrants an indefinite suspension of law," the majority opinion said.
Daily Report Online | Letter to the Editor
By Robin Frazer Clark | October 19, 2022
So we began simply with op-ed pieces like Naveen Ramachandrappa's, getting the word out that there was help through the State Bar's Lawyers Assistance Program (LAP). And we saved lives. Within a week of starting the program, we had at least two Georgia lawyers who let us know that they had been contemplating suicide but simply by reading about our efforts, decided to get help.
By Charles Toutant | October 14, 2022
"It's a paradigmatic case about how the internet and social media can be abused," Jevremovic's attorney, Neville Johnson of Johnson & Johnson in Beverly Hills, California, said of the suit.
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