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The future of legal ethics?

What I’d like to write about is a series of stories that have been piling up on pretty important developments on various fronts touching on the efforts to re-regulate the legal profession and debates about whether and how to do that … and all of those things would seem to be very important. But I’m […]

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Lateral moves can be hard. One type in particular is harder than the rest.

In 2017, a lawyer moving from one law firm to another is a pretty common place occurrence.  Anyone who has been through the process knows how personally difficult and stressful the ordeal can be no matter how excited you are about your next destination.  The emotional and personal components alone can be trying, but the […]

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A lawyer’s public interview that should never have happened…

This is not a political blog, nor even a civil rights law blog.  So, there would be no reason for me to write a word here that has anything to do with the Walter Scott incident.  But this is a blog about legal ethics and lawyering issues, and the former lawyer for the police officer […]