Now, I admit, you may be of the opinion that a blog that has only existed for just a bit longer than 2 years probably has no business trying to recycle past posts as flashbacks or memories or what-have-yous. But, I’ll make you a deal: you start your own blog and you get to do […]
I am nowhere near the most plugged in when it comes to lawyers on the forefront of tracking the ways in which rapid developments in technology are changing the practice of law. I’m a bit more aware than likely most lawyers, in part because I’m constantly looking for things worth writing about here, but also […]
For today, an interesting (at least I think it is interesting) story about a judicial ethics scenario and the ability of media to “shape” a story and how that ability can transform a question of judicial ethics. About three weeks ago, I spoke with a print reporter with The Nashville Scene about questions he had […]
Late last month, I focused a post on a West Virginia lawyer who ended up staring down a 2-year suspension over chronic over-billing. If you missed that post, you can read it here. If you read it, you will recall that one of the items discussed was that the Executive Director of the West Virginia […]
Earlier this week I criticized what I consider to be a pretty bad ethics opinion that was issued by Rhode Island. To balance things out a bit, I want to write about an ethics opinion out of Wisconsin that gives the correct answer to its query – Wisconsin Formal Ethics Opinion EF-17-02. That opinion correctly […]
I have perused a lot of ethics opinions over the years. Whether a kind of scenario presents a conflict is a frequent subject of ethics opinions. I don’t think I’ve read many that address whether a particular conflict of interest is fairly treated as a consentable conflict, however. Having now read Rhode Island Ethics Advisory […]
In October of this year, I’ll have the honor of again getting to serve as a moderator for a panel discussion at Aon’s Law Firm Symposium. This year’s event will take place in D.C. The topic of the panel I get to be a part of will be something of a DQ motion boot camp. […]
Stop me if you’ve heard this one … it’s about a lawyer getting into trouble for overbilling … where there are examples of the lawyer even trying to claim to have billed more than 24 hours in a day. You probably stopped me somewhere in there because you have heard it before. The legal profession […]
[In the interest of full disclosure for those who might be new here, I am presently a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers (APRL).] For those who aren’t new here, you know full well my personal opinion on lawyer advertising and what the ethics rules should and should […]
An opinion worthy of discussion was issued in Ohio back in February 2017 but I didn’t stumble across it until this past week. (A tweet by ALAS got it onto my radar screen.) Advisory Opinion 2017-1 from the Ohio Board of Professional Conduct addresses advertisement of contingent fee arrangements and, in particular, it addresses the […]