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. Legal ethics

A couple of updates, both involving Florida attorneys

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 […]

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. Legal ethics

Why blog posts aren’t, and shouldn’t try to be, solicitations of clients.

So this little blogpost from a Michigan bankruptcy attorney that went viral would be a perfect example to use to answer a question I get asked quite frequently:  When do I have to worry about something I post online being treated as a solicitation of a client under the ethics rules?  It would be a […]

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. Legal ethics

A lawyer’s public interview that should never have happened…

This is not a political blog, nor even a civil rights law blog.  So, there would be no reason for me to write a word here that has anything to do with the Walter Scott incident.  But this is a blog about legal ethics and lawyering issues, and the former lawyer for the police officer […]