The Attorney General of the United States is a member of the Florida Bar. She also appears to be someone about whom real, substantial questions can be raised about her honesty given a recent television appearance. Many years ago, Kelly Conway, acting as a Presidential advisor, went on television, spewed a fairly obvious lie and […]
It is, of course, tempting to want to post about one of the largest law firms in the nation going full quisling and bending the knee in response to an unlawful Executive Order targeting it. Instead, I will point you to this very well written piece by a fellow ethics nerd based in Wisconsin: Lawyering […]
I promise at some point I will write something not about a lawyer getting sanctioned by courts, but it won’t be today. Today’s post is prompted by a ruling of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals dropping a (potentially more than $250,000) sanctions hammer on a lawyer and referring that lawyer to the bar for […]
I know from years of representing lawyers that when you are facing sanctions against you it is awful difficult to spend much time thinking about things other than what is going to happen to you. So, although there are a lot more important things going on in the world right now, today’s content is just […]
This post will be short (fingers crossed) and sweet bitter. I’ve written pretty extensively lately about the two lawyers (now 3 lawyers) getting a lot of negative publicity for misusing ChatGPT and, as a result, filing documents with courts containing imaginary legal authorities. I will not repeat my points about the failings of those lawyers. […]
I will not seek pardon for the pun. I will also try not to prolong the nature of this post because the opinion that is the subject matter for today is a very good read, worthy of the limelight. I have written on several occasions about the problematic efforts of two particular members of my […]
So, anyone I might have hooked into caring about this site in May and June 2021 likely stopped checking for July content 1 or 2 weeks ago. Longer-term, repeatedly neglected, readers are likely still hanging in there (and forever earning my esteem). There have been a bunch of times that I thought I was going […]
Frankly, civil behavior by lawyers toward other lawyers certainly is on the list of things the world needs a healthy dose of, but, well, let’s just say maybe it’s not a top-10 item on the list. So, the point of today’s post is not to be the guy who claims that lawyers shouldn’t have to […]
♫ You’re a crook, Captain Hook / / Judge, won’t you throw the book at the pirate… ♫ For me, much as I’m certain it likely is for you, it is now “Day Something” (I’ve lost track) of surviving a pandemic. I hope that you are doing all that you need to do to both […]