This is an update on the California lawyer who successfully compelled arbitration of a client’s salacious claims that he treated her as essentially a “sex slave” that I wrote about here. While I talked about that case as an example of the growing power of arbitration provisions in the arena of attorney-client contracts, I did […]
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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 […]
Just about a month ago, I wrote a bit about an effort by a Florida attorney to get a Washington state court to unmask the identity of someone who posted an anonymous Avvo review claiming to be the Florida attorney’s unhappy former client. This week the news has come out that the Washington Court of […]
A couple of timely updates, both involving California events. I’ve quite recently written about the ethical issues associated with the trend toward de-criminalization if not outright legalization of marijuana here. As yet further proof about the rapid developments in this area, the San Francisco Bar Association put out an ethics opinion earlier this month making clear […]