I’ve mentioned in the past the fact that Tennessee has a version of RPC 4.4(b) that directly addresses, and provides what I happen to think is the correct outcome, for what a lawyer is supposed to do about the receipt of someone else’s confidential information either inadvertently or via someone who isn’t authorized to have […]
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Later today I will have the honor of speaking as part of a panel at the TBA Health Law Forum. The other panelists are Sheree Wright, the Senior Associate General Counsel with Vanderbilt University and Bill Hannah a lawyer in Chattanooga with the Chambliss Bahner firm. I’m fortunate enough to have both Sheree and Bill as […]
In July, a new ethics advisory opinion was issued out of South Carolina to address a question related to the obligation to report the misconduct of another lawyer, specifically what sort of timing is required. South Carolina Ethics Advisory Opinion 16-04 addresses an inquiry from a lawyer (Lawyer A) who believes he has knowledge of a […]
A common theme in many disciplinary proceedings brought against lawyers involves dishonesty. This should not really be a surprise given that lawyers are human beings and human beings have a tendency toward being dishonest when they can get away with it. Although there is an ethics rule that, on its face, makes it unethical for […]
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Death and disbarment
Returning to the office from the holiday weekend, I noticed these two sad and weird stories of lawyers doing inexcusable things that seem to have common threads of death and disbarment running through them. Many years ago I wrote a humor column for young lawyers. and you can find some of those columns still floating […]