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In the comments to this year's list of top legal ethics stories, a reader asked for a list of the decade's top stories.  That gives me a perfect opportunity to run a Condorcet poll.  First we need to generate the topics.  Below the fold is a list I've generated.  But I need your suggestions of what else might be included in the final poll.  Please suggest anything that strikes you as noteworthy in the field over the past decade.  At some point soon, I will set up the poll and run it.  Thanks.

OLC memos and lawyering within the Bush administration relating to torture.

Lawyers for the detainees fight on, despite criticism (e.g., Major Mori and the "Cully Stimson affair")

The biglaw ?bubble burst? of 2008-2010.

The dotcom bubble burst of 2000-01.

The bimodal first year salary bubble.

Rise of empirical studies of legal profession

Lawyer use of social websites

Federal prosecutions ?over the line? (e.g., the KPMG-Stein case; the prosecution of Senator Ted Stevens, etc.)

Jenkins & Gilchrist tax opinion scandal & subsequent collapse

Recusals and non-recusals at the US Supreme Court (e.g., the "duck hunting" non-recusal)

Caperton v. Massey

 Developments in ineffective assistance of counsel doctrine

Ethics 2000 Amendments

Sarbanes-Oxley and the SEC's revised regulation of lawyers

The increasingly globalized legal profession

Detainees fight for access to US courts

Lynne Stewart conviction

ABA Model Code of Judicial Conduct revised

The Restatement (Third), Law Governing Lawyers

General counsel criminally charged in backdating and market collapse scandals

Dickie Scruggs

Bill Lerach

Silicosis tort cases held "fraudulent"

Clementi report in UK reforms the legal profession there

Publicly owned Australian law firm

Outsourcing of legal work

Lawyer charged in HP pretexting scandal

New York overhauls ethics rules; adopts Model Rules

California nears adoption of Model Rules

The firing of AUSA?s scandal

Civil Gideon movement

Charles Hood scandal

MR 1.10 amendment 

Michael Nifong and the prosecution of the Duke lacrosse players

Holder/Thompson/McNulty memos and the DOJ's policies regarding privilege

Metadata

Pakistani lawyers fight for rule of law

Qualcomm v. Broadcom

Dreier law firm scandal 

Kwame Kilpatrick scandal

Controversy surrounding ?Super Lawyers?

Increasing size of the largest 200 firms.  

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