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A wealth of articles, columns and case digests examining all the various aspects of attorney ethics and discipline, from quick hit news stories to deep analysis to "how to" or cautionary columns and stories.
By Marianna Wharry | February 20, 2024
"In recommending disbarment, the Commission asserted that the scope and magnitude of Doud's ethical failures were 'unequaled in the Commission's collective experience,' and this case proved the most egregious and extensive trust violation and misappropriation/commingling case to ever come before it," the order said.
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By Committee on Judicial Ethics | February 19, 2024
On the facts presented, the inquiring administrative judge has full discretion to determine whether there is a substantial likelihood that a part-time judge has committed a substantial violation of the Rules Governing Judicial Conduct and, if so, what action is appropriate under the circumstances.
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By Committee on Judicial Ethics | February 18, 2024
(1) A judge may not serve as the director of environment and legislation for a not-for-profit organization which seeks to promote scuba-diving. (2) Although the judge may engage in certain public advocacy activities where the judge has a clear and direct personal interest at stake, the judge may not spearhead the organization's efforts to protest a planned discharge of substances into a local waterway.
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By Mhare O. Mouradian, Husch Blackwell | February 16, 2024
With AI, the ability to drive massively greater levels of productivity is within reach, but there are risks if the technology is not used properly.
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By Committee on Judicial Ethics | February 15, 2024
May a part-time village justice permit a part-time village court clerk to also serve as a part-time assistant village clerk, performing ministerial functions in the village's finance department?
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By Kate Brumback and Alanna Durkin Richer | The Associated Press | February 15, 2024
The testimony came in a hearing that could determine whether the Fulton County DA should be removed from the case accusing former President Donald Trump and others of conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.
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By Cheryl Miller | February 15, 2024
A State Bar Court judge had concluded that former Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge John Laettner's misconduct is unlikely to reoccur.
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By Thomas Spigolon | February 15, 2024
Nathan Wade said he took a significant cut in his income when he began working on contract with the DA's office as a special prosecutor.
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By Thomas Spigolon | February 14, 2024
A defense attorney said Atlanta lawyer Terrence Bradley can testify that Wade and Willis began dating two years earlier than they previously stated and before Willis hired him for the Trump case.
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By Michael A. Mora | February 14, 2024
"The Court notes that the motion would be denied but for the rule that the Court may not comment upon its merits," the state court judge held. "This case illustrates how that rule leads to wasteful abuse."
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