Legal Profession Blog

Covers a variety of general interest legal topics and is especially focused on ethics, professional responsibility and the practice of law.

Author: S. Alan Childress, a law professor at Tulane University Law School, Michael S. Frisch, ethics counsel at Georgetown Law Center, Jeffrey M. Lipshaw, an associate professor of law at Suffolk Law School, and William D. Henderson, an associate professor at Indiana University Law School of Law edit the Legal Profession Blog.

Blawg Related Categories: Law Practice Management • Law Professors • Legal Ethics • Georgetown University • Indiana University-Bloomington • Suffolk University • Tulane University • Law Professor

Recent Posts from Legal Profession Blog

Fairness Not An Unconstitutional Burden
The Alaska Supreme Court has held that a suit against a law firm based on allegations of improper activities in pursuing debt-collection litigation on behalf of a client should not have been dismissed: Robin Pepper…
Too Late To Sue The Lawyer
The Arkansas Supreme Court affirmed a circuit court order dismissing a legal malpractice suit on statute of limitations grounds. The client retained the lawyer to advise her concerning a prenuptial agreement, which she executed on…
Balance Of Interests Favors Access To Documents
The Iowa Supreme Court has affirmed a district court decision to grant a motion to intervene and access to discovery in a case in which Canadian plaintiffs sought documents and data produced by Microsoft in…
Thy Partner's Keeper
The New York Appellate Division for the First Judicial Department rejected the Departmental Disciplinary Committee's call for a six-month suspension and imposed a public censure in a matter in which a law partner discovered and…
Agreed Suspension Rejected In Favor Of Censure
An Arizona hearing officer has rejected as "too severe" proposed stipulated discipline of a suspension for six months and one day and recommended public censure and probation in a disciplinary matter involving two charges. One…
SuperLawyer Law School Rankings - Balloon Boy Redux
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw Or something like that. To pile on top of what Alan has to say, what I mean to say is the seeking of publicity for the sake of publicity. And I…
Rankings Ridiculousness Reaches a New High/Low
Posted by Alan Childress Rating law schools by the number of "SuperLawyers" as alum is not a ranking of any kind. It is flat wrong for anyone to treat this seriously. It is a publicity…
Florida Adopts New Computer-Access Advertising Rule
The Florida Supreme Court, in response to a petition from the Florida Bar, has withdrawn its earlier opinion on proposed amendments to rules regulating computer-accessed attorney advertising and adopted a version of the Bar's proposed…
Reconsideration Denied In Bar Admission Matter Involving Unpaid Student Loans
An applicant for admission to the New York Bar sought an order vacating the denial or reargument. The Appellate Division for the Third Judicial Department denied the relief, concluding that the procedures regulating the admissions…
Is Law a Serious Discipline? And Who Are You Calling an Ignoramus?
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw I'm sitting in the University of Michigan Law Library (by courtesy!) reading a delightful and irreverent essay on Anglo-American common law as a discipline by Peter Goodrich at Cardozo. Here's the…