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Cover legal ethics, bar discipline, business practice, the tension between the bar and the academy, ethical theory, and comparative legal professions.
By Alan Childress, Mike Frisch, and Jeff Lipshaw

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Last Entry: April 01, 2011 at 14:56:26

Employing A Suspended Lawyer

Posted on May 29, 2008
The Louisiana Supreme Court has adopted a new provision of its unauthorized practice rule that governs attorneys who employ suspended attorneys under circumstances where the employing lawyer "knows or reasonably should know" of the status of the sanctioned lawyer...

A Conflict Of Interest

Posted on May 29, 2008
The Maryland Court of Appeals disbarred a lawyer who had continued to practice after his decertification for failure to pay the annual Maryland client security fund assessment. Also, the attorney had been arrested as a passenger in a car from...

Just Say No, Even To A Partner

Posted on May 29, 2008
As noted in a recent report in the ABA Journal, the profession is trending toward admission to practice on a conditional basis where there is evidence of past substance abuse, financial issues or other reasons to admit the applicant subject...

Clement To Join Georgetown Law Faculty

Posted on May 29, 2008
Solicitor General Paul Clement will assume a position as visiting professor and senior fellow of the Supreme Court Institute at Georgetown University Law Center. Georgetown Law released an announcement of General Clement's appointment today. (Mike Frisch)

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My Two Cents

Posted on May 29, 2008
Let me add my welcome to Bill Henderson as he joins us at Legal Profession Blog. Bill and I have something in common other than an interest in legal ethics-- an undergraduate degree from Case Western Reserve University. We all...

My Welcome, Too

Posted on May 29, 2008
Thanks for joining our blog, Bill, and I also look forward to hearing your two presentations on the legal profession (with Marc Galanter and Andrew Morriss) this week at Law & Society Montreal. Here is the SSRN link to his...

Bill Henderson Joins Legal Profession Blog

Posted on May 29, 2008
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw Mike, Alan and I are thrilled to announce that Bill Henderson is joining us as a co-editor. Not only is Bill one of legal academia's pre-eminent empiricists (in which capacity he is better known to the...

Lawyers With Convictions

Posted on May 29, 2008
The Ohio Supreme Court imposed indefinite suspensions today in two matters involving serious criminal violations unrelated to the practice of law. In one case, an attorney with a prior record of discipline for "unprofessional, undignified, and discourteous conduct in separate...

"Why I Hate Lawyers"

Posted on May 29, 2008
A Hearing Officer recommended that a petition for reinstatement to the Arizona Bar be denied. There are interesting aspects to both the underlying 1999 disbarment and this reinstatement proceeding. The disbarment arose from the attorney's representation of a client charged...

New Free Podcast Series "Transitioning from One-L to Summer Legal Work"

Posted on May 28, 2008
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw Law students, it's time to clean up, put on the suits, and go to work. And Suffolk University Law School's acclaimed legal research and writing program now has just the iPod content you need for those...

No Fonzie But No Discipline

Posted on May 28, 2008
Like a kid with a new toy, I have been taking a look at the recent bar discipline cases in Arizona. I am struck in my cursory and preliminary review to see that it appears the vast majority of cases...

Beer Ruse Leads To Sanction

Posted on May 28, 2008
In an effort to find interesting or informative bar discipline matters, we often stumble on bar web pages that provide easy access to disciplinary reports. The web page of Arizona bar matters has a case decided in January in which...

Confidentiality Provisions Inapplicable

Posted on May 28, 2008
In a case involving the revocation of a nursing license, the Oregon Court of Appeals held that confidentiality provisions relating to such proceedings do not deprive the accused of an opportunity to review the files of the investigation or to...

Judicial Economy

Posted on May 28, 2008
The D.C. Board on Professional Responsibility has recommended disbarment as reciprocal discipline of a lawyer disbarred in Maryland state and federal courts. The attorney had been convicted of misprison of felony arising from his role as in-house counsel to an...

No Lesser Sanction

Posted on May 27, 2008
A lawyer who was disbarred in Colorado last December for dishonest conduct was disbarred as reciprocal discipline by the Oklahoma Supreme Court. The lawyer's plea for lesser discipline in Oklahoma fell on deaf ears: Rymer appears to advocate that he....

Keep Up With Congress In Real-Time Via Twitter, and Track Bills

Posted on May 27, 2008
Posted by Alan Childress Policy wonks and law watchers will appreciate the fact that all sorts of action on the floors of the House and the Senate will be blogged and tallied real-time via Twitter. (So is Downing Street, for...

New Blog on Career Development In Law Features Bar Exam Tips + Ideas For Summer Job Prep

Posted on May 27, 2008
Posted by Alan Childress The one-month anniversary has arrived for the LPB blog devoted to hiring and law jobs: the Career & Professional Development Blog. Its main editors are CDO professionals Susan Gainen at Minnesota and Mina Jones Jefferson at...

Say It With Conviction, Plus Ethics Updates From Maine

Posted on May 27, 2008
Posted by Alan Childress It is standard advice in legal writing and advocacy to avoid wishy-washies like "I think" or "I believe." * That's also good advice when prepping one's speaking skills to be used in the job search and...

Twenty First Century Misconduct

Posted on May 27, 2008
An attorney was suspended for two years with supervision for one year on reinstatement by the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. The attorney violated ethics rules "by repeatedly accessing the e-mail accounts of other attorneys, without their knowledge or...

A Waste Of Time And Effort

Posted on May 27, 2008
An attorney convicted of one count of misdemeanor insurance fraud was suspended in New York for six months "[f]ollowing a disciplinary hearing and agreement between Respondent and Disciplinary Counsel..." Unfortunately, he also was admitted in the District of Columbia...

Can Law Study in China Help a U.S. or Other Foreign Lawyer Get a Job in China or Practice There?

Posted on May 26, 2008
That is the question Donald Clarke (GW Law) of Chinese Law Prof Blog has asked various sources. He has compiled the answers and considerations in a new PDF document he links and introduces in this post. LL.M. programs and other...

Conflicts of Interest Within FBI By Pegging Mole Pay To Arrests?

Posted on May 26, 2008
Though the Minneapolis news story is not about legal ethics as such, the same perverse-incentive reasons we have conflict-of-interest rules in law may explain my horror in reading this blog report (can this be true?!) that the FBI is recruiting...

Trading for Maple Bats

Posted on May 26, 2008
Quizlaw and others are right to proclaim this the best headline of the weekend: Minor Leaguer Traded For 10 Bats. I am hoping that any new addition we may soon make at Legal Profession Blog is not just a subtle...

Meet the Blogger!

Posted on May 26, 2008
Most of the time I write these posts beneath the rock out from under which I crawl to go about my daily duties. I'm in Ann Arbor for personal reasons, and every University of Michigan public space is locked down...

Civility and Truth

Posted on May 26, 2008
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw The recent debate between Brian Leiter and Rick Hills about the honorary degree granted to Phyllis Schlafly at Washington University raised some interesting issues about the relationship between truth and civility. Given that when we take...

Dangerous, Not Unconventional

Posted on May 24, 2008
The Kansas Supreme Court imposed a one-year suspension, stayed in favor of three years of probation, in a matter brought to the attention of the Disciplinary Administrator when proceeds from a PIP were not forwarded to an insurer as required....

Regan on Changing Organizational Culture and Ethics So They Work Together

Posted on May 24, 2008
Posted by Alan Childress Milton Regan, Jr. (Georgetown), below left, has posted to SSRN Law & Soc'y: The Legal Profession his article, "Moral Intuitions and Organizational Culture," also in 51 St. Louis U. L.J. 941 (2007). His abstract begins: Many...

Law.com Inadvertently Explains to Recent College Graduates Why Culinary School Beats Law School As Next Phase In Life

Posted on May 24, 2008
Hit the Beach With Technology: Summertime gadgets help you escape -- or stay in touch -- with the firm. Its text starts: "Summer means vacation, but vacation means different things to different people." No, it really shouldn't. Reminds me of...

Breaking News

Posted on May 23, 2008
The Indiana Supreme Court imposed a two-year ban on the pro hac vice admission of well-known Michigan attorney Geoffrey Fieger as a result of his failure to fully disclose ongoing disciplinary proceedings in an application for pro hac admission in...

Elefant Analogizes Some Law Billing Practices To Airlines Charging For Your Second Bag

Posted on May 23, 2008
Posted by Alan Childress Carolyn Elefant at MyShingle is asking whether certain billing practices make lawyers look, to their clients, like airlines are looking now when they announce new charges for certain practices like checking your second piece of luggage...

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