This is an update on the California lawyer who successfully compelled arbitration of a client’s salacious claims that he treated her as essentially a “sex slave” that I wrote about here. While I talked about that case as an example of the growing power of arbitration provisions in the arena of attorney-client contracts, I did […]
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I mentioned back near the end of July 2015 that I would be participating on a panel at the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers’ Annual Meeting in Chicago. It is always an honor to get to speak at an APRL meeting, and it was particularly an honor to share the stage with Eliza Rodrigues of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]