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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 Committee on Judicial Ethics | April 21, 2024
A judge may be honored at a non-fund-raising event held by a not-for-profit organization, even where the entity will recognize the judge for prior assistance in fund-raising before the judge assumed judicial office.
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By Colleen Murphy | April 19, 2024
New Jersey solo practitioner Leah E. Capece retained Litigation Support Services to assist her with a legal matter involving a former partner.
4 minute read
By Adolfo Pesquera | April 19, 2024
"Subjecting Paxton to disciplinary proceedings does not violate separation of powers; immunizing him does," Justice Erin Nowell wrote for the majority.
3 minute read
By Cheryl Miller | April 19, 2024
The proceedings against former State Bar of California Executive Director Joe Dunn recalled when the organization was both a regulatory agency responsible for disciplining lawyers and an advocacy entity for the profession.
5 minute read
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | April 18, 2024
A Surrogate's Court judge is not required to remove a Public Administrator who has served for many years if an associate in the Public Administrator's law firm marries the child of a New York State judge.
5 minute read
By Adolfo Pesquera | April 18, 2024
The appeals court cited numerous critical errors in the Commission for Lawyer Discipline's exhibits in a case against attorney Sidney Powell, a key figure in former President Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election results.
4 minute read
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | April 17, 2024
(1) A town justice may not grant permission to the town court clerks to use the town court's courtroom to film for-profit training videos. (2) Whether some other person or entity may grant such permission raises legal and administrative questions we cannot answer.
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By Connecticut Law Tribune Editorial Board | April 17, 2024
That a lawyer can keep more than $225,000 in unclaimed money in his or her IOLTA account indefinitely is insane. But the current rules in Connecticut allow it.
3 minute read
By Cheryl Miller | April 17, 2024
University of California at Berkeley School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky called Dunn a man of "impeccable" integrity, even as former state bar trustees suggested the former bar executive was less than truthful about his 2014 trip to Mongolia.
4 minute read
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | April 16, 2024
Where a not-for-profit entity engages in some activities clearly permissible for judges as well as some potentially controversial lobbying, advocacy and litigation activities, a judge may not participate in a voter registration drive organized by that entity.
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