I mentioned back near the end of July 2015 that I would be participating on a panel at the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers’ Annual Meeting in Chicago. It is always an honor to get to speak at an APRL meeting, and it was particularly an honor to share the stage with Eliza Rodrigues of […]
About three months ago, I wrote about a New York ethics opinion that blessed a marketing effort that I stressed would likely be unethical in Tennessee. That situation involved a lawyer giving client’s a rebate if they agreed to post a review of the lawyer’s work at an online site. In a fairly decent sign […]
So, you likely have read about or stumbled into something on the web about the remarks offered by the founder of Avvo at the ABA Meeting. If you somehow missed having that hit your radar screen at all, you can read about it (and snippets of the remarks of the other folks who gave similar […]
Were you aware that 4% of the state attorneys general (attorney generals?) in the United States have been indicted already in August 2015? Well, they were. First, Texas’ Attorney General was indicted as we learned when his indictment was unsealed on August 3, 2015. Then, Pennsylvania’s Attorney General was indicted on August 6, 2015. For […]
Over the last few months, I have posted on several occasions about the petition pending before the Tennessee Supreme Court seeking some significant changes to the rules in Tennessee regarding admission of attorneys to practice in a variety of contexts. If you are new to the blog, you can get up to speed on this […]
I had the opportunity last Friday to attend the joint APRL/NOBC program put on during the National Organization of Bar Counsel meeting in Chicago (which also happens at the same time as APRL’s annual meeting, which happens to run at the same time as the ABA Annual Meeting). The joint program focused on APRL’s white […]
First, yes, “Mindless Pedantry” would make a good band name. Other than that though, it is never a good thing. In the practice of law, attention to detail is a valuable quality, but mindless pedantry certainly is not. You are probably not an experienced litigator if you cannot remember a time when, faced with responding […]
It is undeniable that the American judicial system long ago embraced arbitration as a valid form of alternative dispute resolution. As a result, it is also hornbook law at this point that agreements to arbitrate disputes are to be enforced just like any other contract. As a practical matter, there isn’t anything empirically wrong with […]
A major issue that has dogged the legal profession in the past, and looks likely to dog it again in the near future (if you don’t happen to think it already does), is the debate over the restriction imposed under the ethics rules that prevents non-lawyers from having any ownership stake in a law firm. […]
You can read it starting at page 23 of this link. By delving back into a topic that I first wrote about in an article for ABA/BNA that was itself a preview of a portion of a chapter of the book I was fortunate enough to co-author, the column is admittedly pretty self-referential. (And thus […]