Ethics

NJ courts say legal clinics at public schools must comply with open records laws

Story at Chronicle of Higher Education. (h/t: Overlawyered)  Opinion here.  As you'd expect, the privilege will be protected, but a general exemption from the law will not be recognized.  This is just one of the many ways that the profession increasingly falls under regulatory statutes of general applicability.  The clinics had argued, unsuccessfully, that the laws will churn up time and resources and that the legislature couldn't have intended that, and that the unique nature of the educational mission means that it should be treated differently. 

Full post as published by Legal Ethics Forum on October 29, 2010 (boomark / email).