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“Damn near never…”

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 […]

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Can I get a witness (to talk to me)?

Later today (noon central), I will be doing a live webcast, through the Tennessee Bar Association, focused on RPC 4.2 and other ethical issues associated with communications with employees (and former employees) of represented organizations.  My co-presenter is a friend and former colleague (we practiced together as associates at a defense firm in the late […]

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Disputes with clients …

I find it interesting that very few of my posts over the last few months have involved situations where lawyers acted poorly in connection with disputes with their clients.  In fact, it appears that really only one has involved such a situation, this one.  I don’t quite know what to make of that fact given […]

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The Opposite of a Role Model

I am very pleased to be one of the speakers at tomorrow’s 2015 TBA Litigation Section annual seminar in Nashville.  I’ll be spending an hour in the afternoon providing some ethics education (hopefully with some entertainment sprinkled in) using the multitude of mistakes and misdeeds of a particular lawyer who practiced outside of Tennessee until, […]