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TN Supreme Court rejects proposed resolution of disciplinary case as too lenient

This week sees a rare instance of media publicity regarding something perceived to itself be a rare event (but for which it is difficult to prove that the perception is also reality) – the rejection of a negotiated conditional guilty plea in a lawyer discipline case that had been approved by a hearing panel, and […]

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A recent experience speaking about legal ethics to regular people

I had the opportunity recently to make a legal ethics presentation to a group of regular people, i.e., people who were not lawyers.  (It takes effort not to call them “nonlawyers.”  I admitted that to them at the outset while acknowledging how egocentric the term sounds when lawyers use it to mean anyone else.  Even physicians […]