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By Jason Grant | New York Law Journal | October 19, 2017
Justice Anthony Ferrara, who is slated to retire at year's end, will only be doing “chambers work” for the remainder of his judicial career, and he has been demoted to a city criminal court judge position.
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By Samuel C. Stretton | October 19, 2017
Payment to witnesses who are not experts is very limited and governed to a large extent by the Rules of Professional Conduct. Under Pennsylvania Rules of Professional Conduct, Rule 3.4(b), a lawyer cannot pay or offer payment to a witness contingent upon the content of the witness' testimony or the outcome of the case.
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By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | Texas Lawyer | October 18, 2017
U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade of Dallas said he's seen witness tampering allegation frequently in criminal cases, but never before in civil suits.
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By Cogan Schneier | National Law Journal | October 17, 2017
Katsas, a judicial nominee for the D.C. Circuit, told senators some of the issues he worked on in the past nine months, including the travel ban and the Mueller investigation.
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By Josefa Velasquez | New York Law Journal | October 17, 2017
The state Court of Appeals said in an opinion that the removal of J. Marshall Ayres, a Conklin Town Court justice, is warranted because it was “improper and a violation of the petitioner's ethical duty for him to use his judicial position to interfere in the disposition of his daughter's traffic ticket.”
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By Samuel C. Stretton | October 12, 2017
To evaluate the issue, one has to get away from the news articles and stories. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, a few years ago, added Rule of Professional Conduct 5.7 that talks about when a law firm is involved in a non-law related business.
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By P.J. Dannunzio | The Legal Intelligencer | October 11, 2017
A Beaver County magisterial district judge who was suspended for allegedly making unwanted advances toward a clerk and verbally lashing out at others has been brought up on additional ethics charges for allegedly retaliating against the witnesses set to appear at his upcoming disciplinary trial.
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By Charles Toutant | New Jersey Law Journal | October 11, 2017
A state mass tort judge has been asked to recuse herself from asbestos injury suits after she failed to disclose a family member's involvement…
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By Herbert B. Dixon Jr | October 10, 2017
Fair, impartial and independent courts are necessary to maintain the American way of life.
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By Charles Toutant | New Jersey Law Journal | October 9, 2017
Linden has agreed to pay $575,000 to settle a federal civil rights suit stemming from a municipal court case in which the town's judge served…
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