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Posted by Jeff Lipshaw I am in Detroit for a family matter. I spoke to my wife from the car at about 7 a.m. She asked me if I would pick up and bring home some of her favorite pecan...

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Over at our sister blog TaxProf (well, a very big sister), Paul Caron reports this fairly unusual situation in which two established professors of tax law (Ethan Yale of Virginia and David Weisbach of Chicago) are being challenged by the...

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The Louisiana Supreme Court has disbarred an attorney for ethical violations in dealings with his former sister-in-law. His brother worked for Halliburton and had named his wife as the beneficiary of his life insurance. The brother gave his brother/lawyer power...

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Here's a rather remarkable disciplinary matter in which the Pennsylvania Supreme Court vacated an order of suspension based on the following findings. The attorney was suspended for non-compliance with CLE obligations. Thereafter, charges of unauthorized practice were brought. The communications...

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"Deciding an issue of first impression," the Maryland Court of Special Appeals has held that the parents in a termination of parental rights case are entitled to effective assistance of counsel. In the matter, the Office of the Public Defender...

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In a sharply worded 41-page opinion, an Arizona hearing officer rejected all disciplinary charges in a case brought over a decade after the (complex) events took place. The attorney was a member a law firm in which a partner had...

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The Tennessee Supreme Court agreed that a hearing panel had acted within its authority and affirmed an order of disbarment. The attorney initially had defaulted on consolidated charges arising from four client complaints. At a subsequent hearing on sanction, he...

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From the web page of the Ohio Supreme Court: The law license of [a] Willoughby attorney...has been suspended for 18 months, with the final six months of that term stayed on conditions, for mishandling a decedent’s estate and committing other...

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The Illinois Administrator has filed a complaint alleging misconduct by an attorney appointed by a county public defender to (i) represent a juvenile charged with criminal sexual assault and (ii) represent the parents in a matter involving protective custody of...

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Posted by Jeff Lipshaw Mark Edwards (William Mitchell, left), a guest blogger at Concurring Opinions, has an interesting post on the recent fire sale disposition of the Silverdome, the former home of the Detroit Lions, primarily on the subject of...

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Posted by Jeff Lipshaw Thanks to the efforts of Mike Frisch and Bill Henderson, we've once again made the ABA Journal Top 100 Blawg List. Over at Legal Ethics Forum, my friend and colleague, Andy Perlman, has implicitly acknowledged us...

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More from the California Bar Journal: [An attorney] was suspended for two years, stayed, placed on two years of probation and was ordered to take the MPRE within one year. The order took effect May 9, 2009. While one of...

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From the web page of the California Bar Journal: After nine years of work by its Rules Revision Commission, the State Bar Board of Governors has approved 35 revisions of the California Rules of Professional Conduct on issues ranging from...

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Justice Workman has filed her dissent: Neither the sheer length of the majority's opinion, nor the large number of cases cited (but erroneously applied), nor even its expansive conclusory statements, can obfuscate its lack of sound legal reasoning and its...

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The Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board has dismissed as unproven charges against a criminal defense attorney. The attorney represented the incarcerated former leader of the Louisiana Hell's Angels. The client owed fees to the lawyer. A person delivered to the lawyer...

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The Michigan Attorney Discipline Board has affirmed findings of misconduct but increased the sanction from a 120 day suspension to 180 days. The attorney had pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault and battery in exchange for dismissal of charges of...

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A non-lawyer village court justice was censured by the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct for a series of unrelated incidents. In one, he observed a driver allegedly fail to yield for a pedestrian, pursued in his own vehicle...

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An Arizona hearing officer rejected a laundry list of ethics charges but found that the accused lawyer (who had a single instance of minor discipline in 30 years of practice) had failed to competently handle an appeal. The underlying case...

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The Tennessee Supreme Court has affirmed a hearing panel order imposing a one-year suspension in a matter involving four separate complaints. The court rejected a variety of claims, including that the sanction was excessive in light of the attorney's claim...

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The Louisiana Supreme Court has imposed a suspension of a year and a day retroactive to an earlier-imposed interim suspension. While employed with the Attroney general's office, the attorney was involved in a minor car accident in the office parking...

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