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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 | March 14, 2024
A judge may not host an event at their home for a federal legislator to discuss national issues with interested community leaders, colleagues, friends, and neighbors.
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By Allison Dunn | March 14, 2024
"I worry that our decision to go beyond the board's recommended sanction, while necessary to protect the public, gives the impression that we are using this disciplinary proceeding to mete out the punishment Goodman should have received through the criminal process," Justice Michael P. Donnelly wrote in a separate, concurring opinion.
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By Michael A. Mora | March 14, 2024
"This is exactly the type of scenario rule 3-6.1(f) is intended to guard against," the Florida Supreme Court ruled in the opinion.
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By Charles Toutant | March 14, 2024
The New Jersey Association for Justice is likely to challenge Opinion 745 to the Supreme Court, the group's president said.
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By Committee on Judicial Ethics | March 13, 2024
(1) Where the town court clerk is involved in litigation against their relatives in another court, a town justice need not disclose or disqualify in matters involving the court clerk's attorney and the relatives' attorney, but must insulate the court clerk from such matters. (2) The insulation must continue until the representation completely ends, including payment of outstanding legal fees.
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By Cheryl Miller | March 13, 2024
SB 940's author, state Sen. Tom Umberg, D-Santa Ana, said a voluntary certification program will encourage ADR firms to prove their practices comply with legal ethics rules.
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By Riley Brennan | March 13, 2024
"Defendants' victory in the case and failure to receive sanctions (on procedural grounds) does not expiate their abdication of duty as officers of the court. Counsel must ask themselves whether it was worth it," U.S. District Judge Chad F. Kenney said of the attorneys' behavior.
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By Committee on Judicial Ethics | March 12, 2024
A judge may accept a trade union's offer of a social dinner and overnight accommodations at the union's annual convention for the judge and their spouse, where the union and its members have not come, and are not likely to come, before the judge.
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By Committee on Judicial Ethics | March 11, 2024
A judicial association may not consent to have its name listed as a client on a consultant's website.
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By Amanda Bronstad | March 11, 2024
The disqualification motion comes as U.S. District Judge Dan Polster, who is overseeing the opioid multidistrict litigation, has lined up four bellwether trials against OptumRx and another pharmacy benefit manager, Express Scripts.
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