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Legal ethics round up (September 1, 2010)

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  • From Legal Malpractice Law Review: more on Black v. California Appellate Project, an unpublished California decision from earlier this summer applying basic malpractice principles -- but against a public interest firm.
  • From the Sun News (Myrtle Beach): a former government official suing for wrongful discharge now claims that the city and individual defendants cannot be represented by the same lawyers, because of the potential conflicts of interest.
  • In re Tafford Distributing Center, Inc.: the bankruptcy judge declined to recuse himrself, asserting that case law has consistently rejected the claim that the judge should recuse when his fiance works at the firm representing the plaintiff and Chapter 7 Trustee.
  • Wendy Patrick Mazzarella has this features article about legal ethics and social networking sites.  (Wendy was on COPRAC with me.)
  • Bloomberg: Legal publisher Wolters Kluwer predicts explosive growth of its sales to the Chinese legal market.
  • At Andrew Sullivan's blog at the Atlantic, Conor Friedersdorf runs an interesting collection of quotes from lawyers in various fields describing their jobs.
  • The Historic City news, of St. Augustine, offers this summary of 21 recent discipline cases from Florida.
  • Texas's overhaul of legal ethics rules was discussed at a Lubbock town meeting.  News article here.
  • A Manatee County judge (Florida) lowered the boom on a law firm practicing foreclosure law.  (As we've discussed here before, the judges aren't always pleased by the lawyering that gets done in foreclosure cases.)
  • From ALM: using Facebook to generate publicity and leads in a case against a university?

Full post as published by Legal Ethics Forum on September 01, 2010 (boomark / email).

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