A common theme in many disciplinary proceedings brought against lawyers involves dishonesty. This should not really be a surprise given that lawyers are human beings and human beings have a tendency toward being dishonest when they can get away with it. Although there is an ethics rule that, on its face, makes it unethical for […]
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For a change of pace, I write today about a very well constructed ethics opinion out of New York. (To keep this positivity train chugging along for at least one more day, my plan for tomorrow is to discuss a federal court decision out of Florida impacting attorney ethics that is also praiseworthy and that […]
Last week I was confronted with another example of how valuable excellent IT professionals can be for practicing lawyers. As routinely happens, our firm’s spam filter trapped a significant number of emails last Wednesday. Because legitimate email sometimes gets wrongly blocked or filtered, our IT folks also review what gets caught in the filters. Last […]
This month the New York City Bar Association has issued an interesting formal ethics opinion on what is, in some respects, a surprisingly little discussed ethical situation: What it can mean for a lawyer’s ethical obligations to simply be serving in a matter as “local counsel.” When I first saw some of the media coverage […]
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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 […]
The month of April 2015 brought a declaration from a legal consultant that he anticipates seeing a 10,000 lawyer law firm within five years. Trying to determine if there would ever be a law firm so big that from a conflicts perspective its operation was fundamentally unworkable might be an interesting intellectual exercise to undertake, but […]