Although I live in SEC country, I am a Chelsea FC fan rather than a follower of college football. So this is not a sly college football reference in my title. (I am aware that apparently UT lost its first game of the season but have literally no idea whether the Cornhuskers have even played […]
Tag: Disciplinary defense
I’m really, truly not trying to fall into the habit of only managing one post a week. As proof, here’s a post about a Tennessee lawyer who couldn’t/wouldn’t follow the rules. It is a fascinating case study for at least two reasons. One is that discipline for conflicts of interest is, all things considered, relatively […]
Within the last week, there was an interesting Law.com article (subscription required) on a topic that has been something of a pet . . . well not really “peeve” of mine, and not really a pet project of mine, but a topic that I feel like is somewhat uniquely overlooked by the people to whom […]
I failed again as a blogger last week and do not have anything resembling a good excuse. There is a lot going on in the world that is troubling and last week was simply a week where it felt like writing anything that was not about how our country has become okay with putting children […]
You’ve likely already read something this week about the Florida lawyer who was disbarred last month as the culmination of his “cumulative and escalating misconduct,” so I don’t know that I have anything truly unique to offer about the situation. But because I so clearly remember talking about the first event in his series of […]
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Preparing for disbarment.
The panel I was fortunate enough to participate in at the meeting of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers in Vancover earlier this month has received a very good write up appearing in a Bloomberg Law publication. You can go read it here. We talked about a number of things other than the looming GDPR deadline, […]
I seem to be trending toward this model of one new/fresh substantive post early in the week and one of these “FFU” posts at the end of the week, but I’m not sure if this is a rut or my script going forward. A very intelligent and thoughtful lawyer asked me while I was in […]
Late this Summer, the Tennessee Supreme Court issued an opinion, over a dissent, that imposed a public censure against a lawyer for what were, pretty clearly, a series of failures on the part of the lawyer’s staff in the handling of a client’s matter. What makes the case, Garland v. BPR, interesting, and worthy of that […]
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Speaking again of rarer occurrences
Last week I dedicated a post to highlighting some topics of note that I hadn’t written about in a while. This is another such post as the Tennessee Supreme Court has again taken action on its own initiative to increase discipline against an attorney beyond a result that both the accused attorney and the prosecuting […]
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Hey Genis! Don’t do that.
I’ve represented a lot of lawyers over the years in disciplinary proceedings in Tennessee. It is certainly fair to say that the process is slow when you want it to be fast and sometimes vice versa. I noticed a story that the ABA/BNA Lawyers’ Manual on Professional Conduct ran with that made me realize that the […]