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Legal ethics roundup (July 26, 2010)

Posted on July 26, 2010
In BOHAN v. DENNIS C. JACKSON CO., L.P.A., the Court of Appeals of Ohio applied the traditional privity test to affirm the dismissal of a beneficiary's legal malpractice claim. "Bohan, a beneficiary of a revocable trust established by his father,...

California Supremes: county can hire contingency lawyers in lead paint public nuisance suit

Posted on July 26, 2010
Story here; opinion here in Santa Clara County v. Superior Court (Atlantic Richfield). The case is a public nuisance action related to lead paint. A group of cities and counties banded together and used their employee-lawyers and contingency fee lawyers...

Legal ethics roundup (July 25, 2010)

Posted on July 25, 2010
A Missouri public defender's office has refused to take in new cases. (h/t: ABA Journal) A new Texas appellate decision, Inliner Americas v. Macomb Funding Group, enforces the old rule that legal malpractice claims are not assignable. Here's the letter...

ABA's proposed changes to legal education

Posted on July 25, 2010
Thorough, useful roundup at Tax Prof Blog. The omission of the word "tenured" is causing some clinical faculty to object.

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"Are Law Firms Really Ready for Project Management?"

Posted on July 23, 2010
Bill Henderson looks at the issue at the IU Center for the Global Profession blog.

J. Herbie DiFonzo, "A Vision for Collaborative Practice: The Final Report of the Hofstra Collaborative Law Conference"

Posted on July 23, 2010
Article here from J. Herbie DiFonzo. Abstract: In November 2009, Hofstra University School of Law?s Center for Children, Families and the Law hosted a Conference on the Uniform Collaborative Law Act, in conjunction with the Uniform Law Commission, the Association...

legal ethics items (July 23, 2010)

Posted on July 23, 2010
In Zayas-Bazan v. Marcelin, Florida's Third District Court of Appeal held that a party that waited two and a half years to move to disqualify opposing counsel had waived its rights. . . . . . Via Accountancy Age: In...

Legal ethics, ex parte hearings, and the duty of candor to the court (Mel Gibson's saga)

Posted on July 22, 2010
I recently caught some grief for reporting about a Hollywood news item. But this item is legit. Movie star Mel Gibson has been all over the news for abusive language and perhaps physical abuse as well toward his domestic partner....

legal ethics odds & ends (July 22, 2010)

Posted on July 22, 2010
A possible merger between Kilpatrick and Townsend fell through because of conflicts, said Paul Vapnek to the ALM. (Vapnek has been a pioneer in legal ethics in California and among patent lawyers.) . . . . . From ALM, a...

A prosecutor writes about Abu Ghraib

Posted on July 21, 2010
Story at Main Justice.

Wave 1 of "After the JD"

Posted on July 21, 2010
Empirical Legal Studies blog announces the release of Wave 1 of the After the JD study. That and other data sets have completely changed how well we understand the profession.

legal ethics news (July 21, 2010)

Posted on July 21, 2010
According to AmLaw Daily, a potentially ground-breaking discrimination suit by a female equity partner has been thrown out because the law doesn't apply to owners -- just to employees. . . . . . Over at the blog for the...

San Jose lawyer, Jamie Harley, convicted of client-related money laundering

Posted on July 21, 2010
Story here. After funds had been frozen, her client wrote checks to her and she remitted funds back to the client. From her point of view, there was no bad intent, but the jury agreed with the prosecution.

and a couple more (July 21, 2010)

Posted on July 21, 2010
A fashion model's malpractice claim against Boies Schiller has been reinstated. She alleges that the firm had an undisclosed and unconsented conflict between representing her and representing some classes. (h/t: New York Attorney Malpractice Blog) . ...

ILEC IV Panel on the Jurisprudence of Legal Ethics

Posted on July 21, 2010
At the recent ILECIV conference one of the final plenary sessions was on the jurisprudence of legal ethics. The panelists - Tim Dare, Kate Kruse, Daniel Markovits, Steve Pepper, Bill Simon, Brad Wendel and I - were given a set...

Yale starts ethics clinic

Posted on July 20, 2010
Story here. Good for them, and good for Larry Fox, whose amicus brief in the Holland v. Florida case, written with the help of Yale students, helped spark the idea for the clinic. They will be giving real ethics advice...

ABA faces fiscal, political challenges

Posted on July 20, 2010
Interesting article here about the challenges facing the ABA. Membership is down and the budget is being cut. But there's also mention of the need for the bar to forge better relations with Congress. It's a story we've been covering...

legal ethics odds and ends (July 20, 2010)

Posted on July 20, 2010
Judge Feldman, who has presided over the litigation involving the Obama administration's moratorium on drilling, has denied the recusal motion. . . . . . Equity funds have helped launch a new UK law firm. Oh brave new world that...

The Ethics of Administering the BP Compensation Fund

Posted on July 19, 2010
At the Mass Tort Litigation Blog, Professor Byron Stier raises some interesting ethics-related concerns about Kenneth Feinberg's administration of the $20 billion BP compensation fund, given that Mr. Feinberg's own compensation from BP is confidential...

Michael Hiltzik, at the LA Times, on the DOJ's debacle in Broadcom

Posted on July 19, 2010
It's not pretty. One can't help but think of all these DOJ debacles as symptomatic of structural issues. (h/t: White Collar Crime Prof Blog)

Legal ethics news (July 19, 2010)

Posted on July 19, 2010
In a bankruptcy auction, a lawyer bought a claim against himself and then dropped the case. . . . . . Lonnie Brown, Jr. has been selected as the new holder of the A. Gus Cleveland Distinguished Chair of Legal...

legal ethics links (July 18, 2010)

Posted on July 18, 2010
With a hat tip to Legal Profession Blog, here's news of the affirmance of the conviction of Lt. Cdr. Matthew Diaz for leaking the identity of Guantanamo detainees to the press. His case, like the earlier case of Cindy Ossias...

Legal ethics news (July 19, 2010)

Posted on July 18, 2010
In a bankruptcy auction, a lawyer bought a claim against himself and then dropped the case. . . . . . As I mentioned previously: the allegations of a politicized and racially-biased DOJ aren't going away and now the Washington...

Live-blogging the International Legal Ethics Conference IV

Posted on July 17, 2010
[whoops. i posted before seeing that Rob has already called us out.] It's been a great conference. If there's any "problem," it's that there are too many interesting panels at overlapping times. Brad, Rob, Renee, Alice, Steve and I are...

ILEC4: Pearce and Wald on relational self-interest and legal practice

Posted on July 17, 2010
Several LEFers are here at Stanford for the Fourth International Legal Ethics Conference, and I hope they'll post some impressions of, and reactions to, the conversations that have been occurring here. (To ratchet up the peer pressure, I'll call them...

a few items (July 17, 2010)

Posted on July 17, 2010
Legal Profession Blog reports that Mercer' Walter George School of Law has launched a legal ethics moot court competition. As you may know, on the mock trial side, McGeorge has an ethics competition. . . . . . . Huge...

Live-blogging the International Legal Ethics Conference IV [post by John Steele]

Posted on July 17, 2010
[whoops. i posted before seeing that Rob has already called us out. and, btw, i once again posted under our moderator account, but this is posted by John Steele, not John Dzienkowski.] It's been a great conference. If there's any...

Florida dispute over alleged client stealing escalates to bar investigation

Posted on July 16, 2010
Messy dispute led to $2 million in civil liability and to a state bar investigation.

"Should lawyers sign [medicare reimbursement] indemnification agreements?"

Posted on July 16, 2010
The Garretsen Firm looks at the issue, but I'm not familiar with it. Can any of our readers explain it?

Evers and Harris, "The Duties of In-House Counsel: The Bold, the Bright and the Blurred?"

Posted on July 16, 2010
The article, written from an Australian perspective, highlights the way that non-US jurisdictions talk about a lawyer's independence more than we do in the US. (Not that we don't; it's just a matter of degree.) Abstract: Recent cases involving in-house...

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