This post is coming late in the week because this week marked the first two stops on the Ethics Roadshow for 2018. (If you are in or near Memphis and Nashville you can still register to come attend next week’s stops and hear about a potential recipe for ethical lawyering involving the 5 Cs of […]
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Neither a stalker nor a burglar be.
Matters of the heart have caused people lots of problems throughout the course of human history. Matters of the heart, when the heart is located inside the chest of a lawyer, work pretty much the same way. Of course, sometimes stories that, on the surface, seem like matters of the heart might be more fairly […]
I failed again as a blogger last week and do not have anything resembling a good excuse. There is a lot going on in the world that is troubling and last week was simply a week where it felt like writing anything that was not about how our country has become okay with putting children […]
With the flood of comments in opposition, and particularly the fact that the Attorney General of our state felt the need to file not just one but two comments in opposition, the unsuccessful end of the effort to convince the Tennessee Supreme Court to adopt a version of RPC 8.4(g) has felt inevitable for the […]
There is an awful lot to like and agree with in this post from Dan Lear, one of the folks who have been the face of Avvo for quite some time. But there is a piece of it that is just simply wrong, and while it would be hyperbole to say it is dangerously wrong, it […]
So, I don’t know if any of you have ever played HQ Trivia. In any session, they have between 500,000 and almost 2 million players, so statistically speaking, I guess there is a chance you have. While it has nothing to do with legal ethics, in order to understand the context of what follows, let […]
If you had told me back in March 2015 when I started this blog that my 300th blogpost would struggle with trying to decide which angle of a statement to The New York Times made by a personal attorney for the 45th President of the United States about paying $130,000 to a porn star to apparently buy […]
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Idaho why I insist on punny titles.
So, those familiar with this space may remember I have written a bit from time-to-time about Tennessee’s proposed rule revision to adopt a modified version of ABA Model Rule 8.4(g). The future of the proposal is still up in the air and the public comment period continues to run until March 21, 2018. If you […]
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I Dowd that very much.
Last week was a pretty eventful week in the area where politics and the law overlaps, and an initially bizarre turn of events that was made more bizarre by subsequent claims injected some questions of legal ethics into events on the national stage again. What I’m talking about is all stuff you’ve likely already read […]
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Three-For-Tuesday.
Any old radio station in your town (most probably one playing “Classic Rock”) can provide you with a Two-For-Tuesday, but where else will you find a Three-For approach to this otherwise underrated day of the week? First, I recently let you know that Tennessee was in play with a proposed version of RPC 8.4(g) to […]