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Idaho Bar Using Musical Parodies and a Humorist to Teach Legal Ethics CLE in Sun Valley October 9
Posted by Alan Childress Using the "Ethics Rock!" program developed by Jack Marshall and his ProEthics seminars, the Idaho bar offers two ethics credits as part of its larger conference in Sun Valley October 8-10, 2008...

Turkewitz Hoax Redux: The Joke That Won't Die
On Friday, I posted about the rather elaborate (and well orchestrated) April Fools' Day prank pulled by blawger Eric Turkewitz. I ended my post by saying that, as time went on, "it should be fun to find out who was in on the joke, and who was suckered...

John Marshall Hosts Conference Today on Ethics of Tax Law Practice
The John Marshall Law School Center for Tax Law and Employee Benefits hosts the Second Annual Institute on the Ethics of Tax Law Practice, co-sponsored by the ABA Tax Section. Here are the speakers and their topics: Myriad Judgment Calls:...

JACK SHAFER: The failings of the New York Times ethics cops. The papers 54-page ethics guideline
JACK SHAFER: The failings of the New York Times ethics cops. “The paper’s 54-page ethics guidelines?a Rube Goldberg-ian chastity belt that appears to have been hewn by a platoon of lawyers?and the Times’ application of them neglects the most corrupting influences facing its writers and editors: the pressure to conform to the consensus [...

I'll Take Turkewitz on Ethics Over Jack Marshall Any Day of the Week
Over at his sparsely populated and impossible to navigate blog Ethics Alarm, American University Washington College of Law adjunct ethics professor Jack Marshall accuses wildly popular New York Personal Injury Law Attorney Law blogger Eric Turkewitz of violating Ethics Rule 8...

Sample Legal Ethics Expert Retainer Letter
A legal ethics listserv recently had some back and forth about retainer letters for legal ethics experts and what should be in them. During last year's National Conference on Professional Responsibility, there was a great panel on legal ethics experts...

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