Rules of Holes. Rule the First. When you are in one, stop digging. Now two things worth saying by way of preface, I guess, before further explanation. First, I’ve dealt with my share of problematic lawyers over the years (so too probably have you), including the type that doesn’t know when to say when, so […]
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So North Carolina has got quite a bit going on these days. Last night UNC won the NCAA Men’s Basketball championship. A few days ago, its general assembly kind of, sort of, repealed the bathroom bill that brought it much negative publicity and cost it some sporting events. And, in March 2017, it adopted a […]
In my early days (If a blog that has only been around for just a smidge over 2 years can be characterized as having early days.), I wrote a post with a reference to “The Streisand Effect” and the need for lawyers and law firms who are thinking about trying to take actions to shut […]
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It doesn’t all even out in the Walsh.
Selecting just the right item to write about is not easy. This is not going to be an instance of accomplishing it. This is going to be an instance of writing something just because I truly find the outcome astounding (or at least I found the outcome astounding when I first read a blurb about […]
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Another Tennessee-centric offering.
Using the term “Tennesentric” would probably be more efficient, but two items involving potential rule revisions relating to ethics and lawyering in Tennessee are worth briefly discussing. One of the two has gone out for public comment and has a deadline, while the other has just been filed with the Court and does not. I’ve […]
On the heels of my criticism of an ethics opinion out of New York as weird-ish, let me turn my attention closer to home to discuss a Court of Appeals opinion this week here in Tennessee that is fortunate for the law firm involved but unfortunate for lawyers in Tennessee in general. In Guo v. Woods […]
I have written a few times about the ABA’s adoption of a new Model Rule 8.4(g). One point that was brought up in the run-up to that rule actually finally being adopted was that some more than 20 jurisdictions already had an anti-discrimination rule in place in the black letter of their rules in one […]
In 2017, a lawyer moving from one law firm to another is a pretty common place occurrence. Anyone who has been through the process knows how personally difficult and stressful the ordeal can be no matter how excited you are about your next destination. The emotional and personal components alone can be trying, but the […]
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Theater of the absurd.
This is something of a stretch from what I normally write about, but sometimes you simply have to write about something and simply ask for forgiveness rather than permission. Recently, an article made the rounds written by Adam Gopnik of The New Yorker who posited that two recent events were the clearest sign yet that we […]
I’ve written a couple of times in the past about the status of the Tennessee Bar Association’s petition seeking to have the Tennessee Supreme Court adopt essentially all of the ABA Ethics 20/20 changes. Yesterday, the Tennessee Supreme Court entered an order doing just that – effective immediately — which now adds Tennessee to the […]