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Traps for the Unwary – RPC 2.2: Lawyer as Intermediary

Press releases on public discipline issued by the BPR can be something of an art form and sometimes, but not always, don’t tell the whole story.  So setting aside any tea-leaf reading that might otherwise go into this one involving what sounds like a situation in which a lawyer was perhaps unknowingly used by clients […]

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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 […]