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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 in California, raises the issue of when lawyer-whistleblowers are justified and, when they are, who should be the audience for the whistleblowing.  (Diaz leaked to the press and Ossias leaked to the political opponents of the Commissioner of Insurance.)        . . . . .       From Wiley Rein, here's news (and analysis) that "The United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, applying New Jersey law, has held that an insured attorney breached the notice provision of his lawyers liability policy by giving notice two years after the claimant first sent a letter alleging the insured committed legal malpractice. Russoniello v. Twin City Fire Ins. Co., 2010 WL 2024084, (D.N.J. May 20, 2010)."       . . . . .        Julian Webb and John Flood have thoughts about the just-concluded ILEC IV conference, which was terrific, imho.       . . . . .        The firm of Sive, Paget & Riesel has posted this article about a new malpractice suit out of Louisiana highlights the importance of defining the scope of the representation and disclaiming tasks that the law firm understands it is not being asked to do -- in this case, environmental due diligence work.

 

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