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A promised update about that CLEUI/CLEWI situation.

A little while back, I posted about a Virginia lawyer who had been suspended after being drunk and disruptive while attending a CLE.  At the time, I speculated about what the ethics infraction might have been – making a false statement in terms of filling out the paperwork on attendance.  I was in the ballpark, […]

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Speaking of prejudicial to the administration of justice …

It is not every day that a contempt case against a Tennessee lawyer gets some national coverage, but it also is not every day that a celebrity former television judge and former candidate for District Attorney has a criminal contempt ruling and sentence of 5 days in jail against him affirmed on appeal. The appellate […]

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Post-discharge communications with jurors

To clarify about that forthcoming revision to the comment to RPC 3.5(c) w/r/t restrictions on communicating with discharged jurors after trial: it impacts only the ability of trial court’s to enter routine orders — such as standing orders or local rule provision — that would place jurors off-limits from lawyers after discharge.  It will not […]