Conflicts are a big issue for lawyers, and a significant issue in the world of legal ethics. (If you are a lawyer and do not already have his site bookmarked, you really need to add Bill Freivogel’s website to your list of bookmarks.) Relatively speaking, however, conflicts of interest (other than ones involving inappropriate sexual […]
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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 […]
In preparation for a panel presentation coming up at the end of this month, I have been delving back into the complicated and contradictory world of disqualification rulings from around the country. While the lay of the land is highly inconsistent to a large degree, there are some common themes that can be teased out […]
Tomorrow I will be one of two speakers for a three-hour CLE in Clarksville, Tennessee sponsored by the Montgomery County Bar Association. I’ll be talking about the variety of ethical issues surrounding audit response letters. Although providing them is certainly contemplated and permitted under RPC 2.3, there are other ethical issues, such as conflicts and […]
I had the opportunity recently to make a legal ethics presentation to a group of regular people, i.e., people who were not lawyers. (It takes effort not to call them “nonlawyers.” I admitted that to them at the outset while acknowledging how egocentric the term sounds when lawyers use it to mean anyone else. Even physicians […]