Not quite, but almost, three years ago, I wrote about a proposal by the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers urging the ABA to revise Model Rule 5.5 to make it easier for clients to retain the lawyer of their choice without being inhibited by state lines. Regrettably, while the ABA has not yet ultimately acted […]
So, from time to time I have really thought about writing something about how much a particular column series in a major legal ethics publication bothers me. If you read the title of this post, and you have access to a subscription to Legal Ethics Law360, then you probably already know which one I am […]
While lots of ethics discussions and regulatory efforts have been focusing on more advanced technology like Generative AI, Pennsylvania has been laser-focused on making it unethical for lawyers to use text messages as a means of soliciting clients in more ways than one. In October 2024, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court adopted revisions to its RPC […]
Among the topics I have been regularly addressing in presentations during 2024, including here at the end of year rush for CLE credits, has been the ethics issues associated with the rise of Generative AI. The core presentation I have done now almost 10 times has been a constant evolutionary process as things have rapidly […]
For certain, I have failed as a blogger by having another month or so of no content. Understand, I aim to do better on that front; I really do. Coming up with meaningful legal ethics issues to discuss here is not easy, but between my bustling practice (for which I am grateful) and other professional […]
Yes, I know. The gap in content around here is inexcusable. Every week or so I should at least post this gif to keep people interested. Today though we offer content. We are spurred to drop all the other projects and write because two things happened today. First, of local interest, the results for the […]
Over the last couple of years, as a result of my involvement with APRL, I’ve had the opportunity to work with a group of smart lawyers to seek to advance reform with respect to the status of Model Rule 5.5 and, more recently, am involved similarly in trying to start the process of reform for […]
Instinctively, if you know your way around the attorney ethics rules, I don’t think the question posed by the title of this post is a particularly hard question. But two incidents I’ve experienced within the last few weeks have caused me to question how well understood it is among the legal community that there are […]
It feels very “fiddling while Rome burns” to write about the legal ethics implications of today’s Supreme Court ruling that has the potential to have ended core concepts of our Constitutional Republic just 3 days before what would have been its 248th birthday, but legal ethics issues are things that I am more than qualified […]
It has somehow been a minute since I’ve written any updates on anything in the world of Generative AI issues. That hasn’t, of course, been because things haven’t been happening. They have. And even today I found myself as part of yet another panel presentation on the ethics issues surrounding the rise of the use […]