It is, of course, tempting to want to post about one of the largest law firms in the nation going full quisling and bending the knee in response to an unlawful Executive Order targeting it. Instead, I will point you to this very well written piece by a fellow ethics nerd based in Wisconsin: Lawyering […]
This next stretch of time would likely be hard enough for many folks to get through if nothing else troubling was going on in our nation. This is the stretch of time where we will be reminded time and time again of the five-year anniversary of events that changed, for many irrevocably, our lives because […]
Before launching into the substance of this post, I wanted to briefly acknowledge that tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of the existence of this blog. In the 10 years that have gone by since I put my first post into the tubes, I have written 583 more posts likely spanning at least 750,000 and perhaps […]
The fascist tide in the United States is moving so fast it is difficult to keep up with it. Spending what feels like the appropriate amount of time trying to digest what is happening, and figuring out what can be done about it, can be extremely deleterious to mental health and overall well-being. And yet, […]
The world is already an exceedingly difficult place. Yet, I continue to seem to think it makes sense for me to spend time thinking I can influence how Texas goes about thinking about legal ethics. There should probably be a DSM-V category for this behavior, but oh well I am doing it again. (It’s probably […]
Given the state of the nation, it is very difficult to write anything about legal ethics that isn’t also about politics. So, I’m not even going to bother to try this week to come up with something that isn’t. Among the parade of daily horrors to the rule of law happening in the last 3 […]
Apparently, when you are the Tennessee Supreme Court that might just be something you are powerful enough to do. For a variety of reasons over the years, I have refrained from writing anything here about the Tennessee Lawyers Assistance Program. During the course of my career, there have been times I have been a huge […]
Many years ago now, I wrote a post about a lawyer improperly making a public announcement that they were no longer representing a prominent client. On the cusp of the United States beginning a journey caused by repeating one of its gravest electoral mistakes, I will not repeat that post in its entirety. Instead, I […]
Not quite, but almost, three years ago, I wrote about a proposal by the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers urging the ABA to revise Model Rule 5.5 to make it easier for clients to retain the lawyer of their choice without being inhibited by state lines. Regrettably, while the ABA has not yet ultimately acted […]
So, from time to time I have really thought about writing something about how much a particular column series in a major legal ethics publication bothers me. If you read the title of this post, and you have access to a subscription to Legal Ethics Law360, then you probably already know which one I am […]