Ethics

• From the WSJ Blog Corruption Currents:  ?Whistle Blower Program:  A Question of Legal Ethics?
• ?Why do lawyers hate law professors?? asks Bridget Crawford, guest-blogging at The Faculty Lounge
• The First Amendment Law Prof Blog weighs in on the proposed Kentucky Bar Association rule addressing lawyers? Facebook postings
• Former Michigan Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Weaver has been sent a letter of public censure by five members of the current Michigan Supreme Court for recording the court's internal deliberations and then releasing transcripts (H/T SBM Blog , links to Detroit Free Press and Detroit News, plus the letter, and Justice Weaver's response)

More on the foreclosure lawyers?

• Over at the Huffington Post, Judge H. Lee Sarokin asks, ?Does the defense of foreclosures by lawyers border on the unethical??

And for attorneys? fees issues in the news?

• Australian solicitor overbilled millions of dollars by double-billing clients
• Settlement of Novartis sex discrimination case lands lawyers $40M but the female plaintiffs each receive only $16k
• An attorney?s false billing of nearly $500,000 results in the voluntary surrender of his license (essentially disbarment), reports the Legal Profession Blog
• Walmart announces in a press release a new pro bono legal services program