Legal Profession Blog tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-517456 2012-01-26T16:27:39Z A Member of the Law Professor Blogs Network TypePad LegalProfessionBloghttp://feedburner.google.com Tales From The Gulag tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0167611e6779970b 2012-01-26T11:27:39-05:00 2012-01-26T16:27:39Z The Iowa Supreme Court has links to a number of documents relating to proposals to revise Iowa's attorney advertising rules. The most recent documents consist of 47 pages of comments on the proposed rules. My friend Norman Bastemeyer, the former... Legal Profession Theories Of Relativity tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0167611dfb7c970b 2012-01-26T10:42:23-05:00 2012-01-26T15:42:23Z The Florida Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee has recently opined: ISSUE Whether a county judge whose child works in the state attorney’s office in the same county is automatically disqualified in all criminal cases? ANSWER: No, but the parties should be... Legal Profession No Misrepresentation For Unkept Promises To Cooperate tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0168e61f6707970c 2012-01-26T10:34:52-05:00 2012-01-26T15:34:52Z An attorney who had previously been reprimanded, censured and suspended for three months has been suspended for one year and until further court order by the New Jersey Supreme Court. The attorney engaged in serious neglect and related violations in... Legal Profession Misconduct Motivated By Desire To Visit Mother tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0167611dd6c2970b 2012-01-26T10:27:14-05:00 2012-01-26T15:27:14Z The New Jersey Disciplinary Review Board has imposed a reprimand of an attorney who had forged the name of an attorney on the addendum to a real estate contract. The disciplined attorney represented the buyers; the forged name was that... Legal Profession Latex Allergy Must Be Accommodated By Preschool tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0167611d91b5970b 2012-01-26T10:10:39-05:00 2012-01-26T15:10:39Z In a 5-2 decision, the Maryland Court of Appeals reversed the Court of Special Appeals and found that a parent who suffered from an allergy to latex was discriminated against by her child's preschool for its failure to accommodate her... Legal Profession Indefinite Suspension For Second Disciplinary Offense tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0168e61ead7d970c 2012-01-26T09:25:28-05:00 2012-01-26T14:25:28Z From the web page of the Ohio Supreme Court: The Supreme Court of Ohio today imposed an indefinite suspension against the law license of [a] Cincinnati attorney...for multiple violations of the Rules of Professional Conduct. In a 7-0 per curiam... Legal Profession I Love D.C. tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0168e61e4727970c 2012-01-26T08:46:28-05:00 2012-01-26T13:56:26Z Readers of this blog may recall my advocacy in favor of agreed, i.e., stipulated dispositions in the District of Columbia bar disciplinary system. Today the D.C. Court of Appeals approved four such proposed dispositions. It's a great day to be... Legal Profession Sit Down You're Rocking The Boat tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0168e612a157970c 2012-01-25T14:00:54-05:00 2012-01-25T19:03:11Z An attorney has been publicly censured by the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility for a direct criminal contempt in the Jefferson County General Sessions Court. He "interrupted court proceedings, became argumentative with the presiding judge, and failed to take his... Legal Profession Non-Refundable Fee Must Be In Writing In Tennessee tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0168e6129a1a970c 2012-01-25T13:55:16-05:00 2012-01-26T23:11:40Z The Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility has issued a public censure who represented a client charged with criminal offenses. The attorney charged a non-refundable fee of $9,000 but did not put the agreement in writing. When the client discharged the... Legal Profession One Client Too Many, One Insight Too Few tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0168e6105b5b970c 2012-01-25T11:14:46-05:00 2012-01-25T16:20:30Z The Minnesota Supreme Court has imposed a public reprimand and probation of two years in a case involving an attorney's simultaneous representation of "a plaintiff and a third-party defendant in the same lawsuit; and...after withdrawing from representation of the third-party... Legal Profession Pay The Lawyers Before The Hospital tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0163000dc3bc970d 2012-01-24T14:58:34-05:00 2012-01-24T19:58:48Z The Delaware Supreme Court has held that an attorney is entitled to take a contingent fee prior to the execution of a lien for medical expenses. The law firm represented a client in a personal injury action. The hospital bill... Legal Profession Money Laundering Conviction Leads To Suspension tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0163000dab5e970d 2012-01-24T14:46:55-05:00 2012-01-24T19:49:49Z An attorney convicted in a money laundering scheme was suspended for four years by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The attorney had served as the outside counsel for a bank. He was convicted as a result of an FBI undercover sting... Legal Profession Customary But Improper Legal Fee Charges tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0168e601465a970c 2012-01-24T11:15:26-05:00 2012-01-24T16:18:57Z In a decision reversing the Circuit Court and Court of Special Appeals, the Maryland Court of Appeals reached a decision with respect to legal fees charged in foreclosure sales: We hold that , in the absence of specific authority in... Legal Profession Conflict But Not A Part Of The Fraud tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0168e5f65c44970c 2012-01-23T13:12:35-05:00 2012-01-23T18:12:35Z The Illinois Review Board has recommended a three-month suspension of an attorney who represented a buyer and seller in a real estate transaction. Unbeknownest to the attorney, the deal itself was a fraud. The board's summary: The Hearing Board found... Legal Profession No Support Whatsoever tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef016760f520df970b 2012-01-23T12:55:58-05:00 2012-01-23T17:55:58Z The Michigan Attorney Discipline Board has agreed with a Tri-Valley Hearing Panel that charges of false statements to a tribunal were not proven by a preponderance of the evidence. The Board affirmed the panel's order of dismissal. The board rejected... Legal Profession Animal Control In South Carolina tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef016760f46a79970b 2012-01-23T11:37:09-05:00 2012-01-23T16:37:09Z A magistrate may not appoint as constable the spouse of the chief animal control officer because the appointment would require his recusal in animal control cases, according to an opinion of the South Carolina Advisory Committee on Standards of Judicial... Legal Profession Accounting Not Practice Of Law tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0162ffff42bf970d 2012-01-23T10:47:22-05:00 2012-01-23T15:47:22Z The South Carolina Advisory Committee on Standrards of Judicial Conduct opines that a judicial clerk may place a bar number on documents submitted to the IRS: The question: A newly-licensed attorney, who serves a law clerk for a circuit judge,... Legal Profession Victim Forgives; Court Reinstates tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0168e5ed39e2970c 2012-01-23T07:56:52-05:00 2012-01-22T17:14:13Z The Louisiana Supreme Court has reinstated an attorney disbarred as a result of a conviction in a judicial sting operation. The court majority stated that "[m]ost significantly...the victim of petitioner's misconduct has indicated her support of his readmission to the... Legal Profession Alienation Of Affections tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0168e5ecaa82970c 2012-01-22T09:26:15-05:00 2012-01-22T15:31:15Z An amended complaint filed by the Illinois Administrator alleges that an attorney engaged in unethical behavior with respect to the immigration status of his mother-in-law. The complaint states that the attorney married a citizen of the Ukraine in April 1998.... Legal Profession Tina Stark tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef016760df8ea3970b 2012-01-20T18:31:19-05:00 2012-01-20T23:31:19Z Posted by Jeff Lipshaw My very good friend, Tina Stark, in my estimation, the country's leading educator on the subject of transactional lawyering skills, has announced her retirement from full time academia due to an ongoing chronic health issue. Tina... Legal Profession