My last post was filled with criticisms related to the roll out of a new ABA Ethics Opinion. Today I’m offering a different tone and message for the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility – a positive message offering kudos for the working draft that has now been circulated to revise the ABA […]
So, as promised (and even though there have been even further developments down in Florida), today I am writing about the latest ABA Ethics Opinion and whether it might provide any solace and protection for a lawyer who is being dragged by a former client online and wanting to defend herself by responding online to […]
I know they warn people about going to wells too often, but though the Roadshow has now wrapped up your intrepid blogger is a bit exhausted. So this is the well where we find ourselves today … a further mention of the ongoing TIKD situation. It is both a selfish and an altruistic offering. The […]
I am still Roadshowing this week, among other things, so I will again offer some content but with a caveat about its brevity. (And, again, if you are sitting in a highly-entertained crowd looking for the embedded Spotify playlist just keep scrolling and you’ll find it.) In the before time, the long, long-ago at this […]
In the middle of Roadshowing (short break until the next stops next week) and also still trying to handle client matters to boot, so this will be a quick post. (If you are here next week looking for the Roadshow playlist, just keep scrolling down as it can be found in the post immediately below […]
If you aren’t in attendance at any of the Ethics Roadshow events, then this post won’t really make much sense. So, apologies. But maybe you should make an effort to attend next year? Just saying…
Last week was a pretty eventful week in the area where politics and the law overlaps, and an initially bizarre turn of events that was made more bizarre by subsequent claims injected some questions of legal ethics into events on the national stage again. What I’m talking about is all stuff you’ve likely already read […]
Any old radio station in your town (most probably one playing “Classic Rock”) can provide you with a Two-For-Tuesday, but where else will you find a Three-For approach to this otherwise underrated day of the week? First, I recently let you know that Tennessee was in play with a proposed version of RPC 8.4(g) to […]
You may recall, a while back, that I kvetched a bit here about my belief that Avvo’s rating system was less than a bona fide system. The primary focus of my argument centered on Avvo’s decision to assign numerical ratings to some lawyers even though those lawyers have never claimed their profiles. I then spent […]
I’m pleased to report that, yesterday, a joint petition was filed by the Tennessee Bar Association and the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility asking the Tennessee Supreme Court to adopt an RPC 8.4(g) patterned after the ABA Model Rule. As I’ve written here in the past, I’ve long been hopeful (not necessarily optimistic but certainly […]