Legal Profession Blog tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-517456 2013-06-19T23:22:12Z A Member of the Law Professor Blogs Network TypePad LegalProfessionBloghttp://feedburner.google.com One-Third Of Awarded Fees Covered By Contingent Fee Agreement tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0192ab51eafa970d 2013-06-19T16:22:12-07:00 2013-06-19T23:28:09Z The Utah Supreme Court has ruled in favor of an attorney in a fee dispute with a client. The attorney represented the client pursuant to a 1/3 contingency fee argeement for "all monies paid" in the case. The representation spanned... Legal Profession Self-Medicating Judge Reinstated With Censure tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0192ab4ec1af970d 2013-06-19T08:51:24-07:00 2013-06-19T15:54:02Z The Oklahoma Supreme Court has lifted a disability suspension and imposed a public censure of an attorney who entered a guilty plea to two drug-related misdemeanors and felony possession of methamphetamine. He was suspended in June 2012 after his arrest.... Legal Profession Loan Modification Not Unauthorized Practice tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0191038620a2970c 2013-06-19T08:08:43-07:00 2013-06-19T15:09:01Z The South Carolina Supreme Court has held that modifying a loan without the participation of an attorney does not constitute the unauthorized practice of law. The case involved petitioners who had obtained loan modifications and failed to make timely payments... Legal Profession The Bicycle Thief tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0192ab4e6238970d 2013-06-19T07:55:54-07:00 2013-06-19T15:00:53Z A New York town court justice has resigned in the face of allegations that he publicly and physically confronted a fifteen-year-old boy who was riding his bicycle in [his] neighborhood, yelled profanities, took possession of and damaged the bicycle, and... Legal Profession Letter To An Inmate tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01901d8fce91970b 2013-06-19T07:33:51-07:00 2013-06-19T14:33:51Z An attorney who was convicted of trafficking with a jail inmate was suspended for at least six months without automatic reinstatement by the Indiana Supreme Court. The attorney delivered a letter from the client's girlfriend in which she offered to... Legal Profession At Baristas Cafe tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0192ab43dc47970d 2013-06-18T06:33:29-07:00 2013-06-18T21:51:56Z The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has annulled the license of an attorney who pleaded no contest to criminal charges of false swearing and "malicious application to declare a person mentally ill or inebriate." The problems started in Baristas... Legal Profession Not Without Sympathy But Without Recourse tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0192ab4359c6970d 2013-06-18T05:20:08-07:00 2013-06-18T12:20:08Z While it was "not without sympathy" for an injured woman who had looked to the legal profession for protection of her rights, the North Carolina Court of Appeals nonetheless dismissed her legal malpractice case on statute of limitations grounds. The... Legal Profession That's What Makes A Horse Race tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0192ab3bcbd0970d 2013-06-17T09:45:01-07:00 2013-06-17T16:48:08Z A Louisiana hearing committee has recommended the permanent disbarment of an attorney convicted of a single felony count of mail, wire, identity document and healthcare fraud. The attorney was the incumbent President of the Louisiana Horseman's Benevolent Association 1993, Inc.... Legal Profession Ponytail Pull No Ethics Violation tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01910372d81a970c 2013-06-17T08:11:45-07:00 2013-06-18T09:51:13Z The Delaware Supreme Court has ordered that a bar discipline matter be closed, concluding that the attorney's conviction for Offensive Touching "bears no relationship to Respondent's fitness to practice law." The conviction involved a domestic incident in public during which... Legal Profession Disbarment Is Not Enough tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01901d7bfaa0970b 2013-06-17T06:03:08-07:00 2013-06-17T13:04:50Z The Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board has concluded that a hearing committee's proposed sanction of disbarment should be raised to permanent disbarment: In accepting fees from her clients and failing to provide services, Respondent has intentionally converted funds from numerous sources... Legal Profession Eighteen Months Is Not Enough tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0192ab39f717970d 2013-06-17T05:17:46-07:00 2013-06-17T12:18:35Z The Georgia Supreme Court has rejected a second petition for voluntary discipline in a matter involving three disciplinary cases. After rejecting a proposed suspension of six months, the court here turned thumbs down to eighteen months. Although there were a... Legal Profession 30 Days for 50 Bucks tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0192ab39c220970d 2013-06-17T04:46:43-07:00 2013-06-17T11:46:43Z An attorney who was paid $50 to write a collection letter for the client failed to write the letter. After the client complained, the attorney promised deputy bar counsel that he would attend to the matter, Thereafter, he still failed... Legal Profession Censure Follows Suspension tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01901d7af17b970b 2013-06-17T03:30:17-07:00 2013-06-17T10:30:17Z An attorney who failed to file an affidavit required as a result of her suspension from practice was censured by the New Jersey Supreme Court. The Disciplinary Review Board indicated that it would have imposed a lesser sanction but for... Legal Profession Excessive Fees Draw Suspension tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0191035687d0970c 2013-06-14T07:20:01-07:00 2013-06-14T14:20:01Z The Iowa Supreme Court has imposed suspensions of eighteen months of two attorneys for charging excessive fees during the last two decades of a thirty-year representation of a ward. The ward was a Vietnam veteran who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia,... Legal Profession Call for Papers: AALS Section on PR, for Jan. 2014 AALS Meeting in NYC tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef019103566d92970c 2013-06-14T07:06:52-07:00 2013-06-14T14:06:52Z Call for Papers: AALS Section on Professional Responsibility Subject: "The Lost Lawyer and the Lawyer Statesman Ideal: A Generation Later – The Shifting Sands of the Profession’s Identity," 2014 AALS Annual Meeting, New York, NY The AALS Section invites papers... Legal Profession Last Gasp To Stop F. Lee Bailey Admission Rejected tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0192ab1e624c970d 2013-06-14T06:27:03-07:00 2013-06-14T13:27:03Z The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has rejected the motion of the Board of Bar Examiners for reconsideration of its recent order directing the admission of F. Lee Bailey. The board had apparently sought to persuade the court to defer to... Legal Profession Practice Tip: Appear For Oral Argument In Your Own Disciplinary Matter tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef019103558616970c 2013-06-14T05:19:12-07:00 2013-06-14T12:19:12Z The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has ordered a reprimand of an attorney for lapses in the representation of clients in connection with two appeals. The court found a number of mitigating and aggravating factors. It helped that the... Legal Profession Higher Ground tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01901d5919a1970b 2013-06-13T12:50:29-07:00 2013-06-13T19:52:50Z The New Mexico Supreme Court has approved stipulated discipline and imposed a public censure of a magistrate judge. The judge had sought to intervene on behalf of his stepson, who was in custody. He engaged in an ex parte contact... Legal Profession More Than An Error In Judgment tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0191034ceb2c970c 2013-06-13T07:44:51-07:00 2013-06-13T14:44:51Z An Illinois Hearing Board has recommended a two-year suspension of an attorney who, as president and treasurer of a condominium association, used entrusted funds. The board rejected the attorney's defenses and explanation: We previously rejected the notion that Respondent was... Legal Profession The View tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0191034c7384970c 2013-06-13T06:38:29-07:00 2013-06-13T13:38:29Z The Tennessee circuit court judge chaged with ethics violations arising out of a visit to the home of a party in a parenting dispute has filed an answer denying any misconduct. The answer asserts that the visit was done with... Legal Profession