The 2016 ABA Annual Meeting continues today and tomorrow but the two actions for which it likely will be most remembered have already transpired. One happened Monday when, after much public discussion and multiple revisions to the proposal along the way, a final set of proposed revisions to ABA Model Rule 8.4 was approved in […]
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A long while ago I wrote about a lawyer’s public interview that should never have happened. Here is a lawyer’s op-ed piece that should never happened, you can read the op-ed if you haven’t already at this link at The Huffington Post. Now, because such a disclaimer seems to be in order and beneficial to some extent, […]
Almost a year ago, I wrote a little bit about what was a first-of-its-kind rule adopted by South Carolina to address the obligations of lawyers in a law firm when a lawyer within their midst was becoming impaired as a result of aging. South Carolina’s adoption of a new RPC 5.1(d) aimed at that specific […]
I’ve written a good bit here about the problems that the Department of Labor’s proposed new Persuader Rule interpretations present and, most recently, wrote a little bit about a Texas federal judge’s ruling issuing a preliminary injunction about the rule going into effect. My discussion of that ruling back at the end of June 2016 […]
So, tomorrow, I am speaking as part of a seminar put on by the Solo and Small Firm section of the Memphis Bar Association focusing on aspects of buying or selling a law practice. I’ll be doing the second hour — “What to Do When (not) Everything Must Go? The Ethics of Buying or Selling a […]
So this intrepid blogger is on vacation and this post and perhaps one other this week will have been pre-written and scheduled for publication. So here’s hoping nothing has transpired in the world to make this seem tone-deaf. Samson Habte, an excellent reporter with the ABA/BNA Lawyers’ Manual on Professional Conduct, was kind enough to […]
I’ve written previously about the maelstrom of issues presented by Avvo’s expansion from its original core business as a lawyer rating service into new things such as Avvo Legal Services — an arrangement where it makes clients, who will have already paid Avvo for the legal services they want, available directly to lawyers to perform […]
Big news … well, the size of the news may be subject to differing opinions, but news. Believe it or not, this year will be the 12th year that I have had the opportunity to do the Ethics Roadshow for lawyers throughout Tennessee. Since this is my 12th go round at doing three hours of […]
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Astonished and admonished.
So, on days like today, it is very difficult to have a forum (even one as small as this one) and not talk about truly important problems plaguing society, but no one comes here for my thoughts on those things so I’ll refrain. Staying in my lane, here is another example of a problem lawyers […]
An important development for labor lawyers that I delved into a bit recently here has now been put on hold. I managed to point out that there would be significant efforts aimed through litigation at stopping the rule from ever going into effect. Yesterday, a Texas federal district court has stayed the Department of Labor’s new […]