Are you sitting down? You should probably sit down so that the shock isn’t too much. I’ll wait. Ok. Now that you are sitting down. It does not appear that the bar regulators in my state are very interested in holding powerful lawyers accountable for their conduct. Readers of the blog know that on Monday […]
There are lots of concerning things going on in the country. One of them is the continuing problem presented by the Attorney General of the United States viewing her role as being President Trump’s lawyer and a partisan willing to do his bidding at all times. I have written a few times about what I […]
Those are the four words that should be used to succinctly define Pam Bondi, the current Attorney General of the United States. I have written about her previously, and I fully recognize that the Florida Bar is never going to take action against her. But rarely does a day pass without something occurring that serves […]
Pursuant to my commitment that every time a new Pope is elected, there will be a new post here on the blog, here’s a post while everyone still has papal fever. And, as a bonus almost justifying the attempt to tie these events together, there will be Pope content. I’ve dedicated entire posts in the […]
I know, I know. Who in the world am I, right? You aren’t going to read anything I write or do anything about the things I am writing about. But you really, really should be doing something about Pam Bondi. Her penchant for going out in public and telling brazen lies isn’t going to stop […]
Although this post could have been prompted by many things, the specific inciting incident for it is this news story out of Detroit involving the appalling treatment of a U.S. Citizen and Michigan lawyer named Amir Makled. The news article makes clear that this man was targeted by our government because it knew he was […]
The Attorney General of the United States is a member of the Florida Bar. She also appears to be someone about whom real, substantial questions can be raised about her honesty given a recent television appearance. Many years ago, Kelly Conway, acting as a Presidential advisor, went on television, spewed a fairly obvious lie and […]
It is, of course, tempting to want to post about one of the largest law firms in the nation going full quisling and bending the knee in response to an unlawful Executive Order targeting it. Instead, I will point you to this very well written piece by a fellow ethics nerd based in Wisconsin: Lawyering […]
This next stretch of time would likely be hard enough for many folks to get through if nothing else troubling was going on in our nation. This is the stretch of time where we will be reminded time and time again of the five-year anniversary of events that changed, for many irrevocably, our lives because […]
Before launching into the substance of this post, I wanted to briefly acknowledge that tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of the existence of this blog. In the 10 years that have gone by since I put my first post into the tubes, I have written 583 more posts likely spanning at least 750,000 and perhaps […]