It feels very “fiddling while Rome burns” to write about the legal ethics implications of today’s Supreme Court ruling that has the potential to have ended core concepts of our Constitutional Republic just 3 days before what would have been its 248th birthday, but legal ethics issues are things that I am more than qualified […]
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The future of legal ethics?
What I’d like to write about is a series of stories that have been piling up on pretty important developments on various fronts touching on the efforts to re-regulate the legal profession and debates about whether and how to do that … and all of those things would seem to be very important. But I’m […]
It’s Tuesday night, October 8, 2019. What are you going to do with your evening? Want to read a letter written by someone who seems pretty clearly like someone who should not be permitted to be a lawyer at all but certainly who fails to understand that being White House Counsel is not the same […]
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Disbarrment time in D.C.?
Today’s a pretty big day for the future of democracy in the United States. Not just because it is Law Day, but because Law Day is being commemorated pretty ironically as the man with a very checkered past currently serving as the Attorney General of the United States testifies to Congress about why he didn’t […]
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Rarer than rare
I could try to open this post with references to song lyrics from either Toad the Wet Sprocket or Arctic Monkeys, but, either way, I’d likely lose most of you from the jump. (I could also try to claim knowledge of the Glenn Miller song that uses the exact phrase but while I may look […]
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About last night.
Things are moving so fast, the new administration has made it to one of the worst moments of the Nixon Administration in fewer than 11 days. Now, in addition to being a constitutional crisis, America’s political drama involves an honest-to-goodness legal ethics issue so… To recap, yesterday Sally Yates, a career federal prosecutor who was […]
This week a former in-house counsel whose travails were discussed at last years Ethics Roadshow finds himself back in the news this week as he is testifying at his boss’s trial. At the Roadshow we discussed that the former GC for PetroTiger Ltd. had been disbarred in late November of last year as a result […]