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 • Blawg 100
Recent Posts from Legal Profession Blog
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Greed, Fear, and Morality: Walking and Chewing Gum?
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw I'm off to Springfield, Massachusetts at the end of the week to participate in the Entrepreneurship in a Global Economy symposium at Western New England College's Law and Business Center for…
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I Now Pronounce You...
A recent judicial ethics opinion from Massachusetts holds that a judge may serve as a justice of the peace for the sole purpose of conducted a marriage ceremony: Performing marriages does not implicate any policy…
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Prospective Sanction
An attorney who was convicted of a number of criminal offenses in New Jersey relating to the conversion of a $75,000 settlement was suspended for three years by the New York Appellate Division for the…
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The Final Straw to Gov. Sarah Palin re Trooper Taser
Posted by Alan Childress The official AK Branchflower report is just out and linked here. Lost in all the legal verbiage and important findings will be this isolated event I note below. It is one…
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Financial Crisis, Governance, and Stock Performance
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw I was working away this morning and trying not to look at the Dow when a thought struck me. Back when I was fighting the governance wars from the inside, arguing…
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No Misconduct In Liens To Secure Fees
A very interesting hearing officer report just filed in Arizona directs that ethics charges be dismissed in a case where the attorney had been charged with violating ethics rules and state statutes "by taking liens…
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Looking For Mr. Hyde
An Illinois hearing board has recommended that an attorney convicted on three occasions of driving under the influence be suspended for one year and until further court order. The Administrator had the attorney submit to…
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The Drift Toward Pure Numbers Admissions
[by Bill Henderson, cross-posted to ELS Blog] Law schools are part of a production function for entry level lawyers. Therefore, if law schools alter their admissions practices, the character and complexion of the law school…
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Not Yet
The New York Appellate Division for the Third Judicial Department denied the application for bar admission of a 41 year old attorney, admitted in Colorado, who has had a longstanding problem with alcohol and chemical…
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Conviction Overturned
A criminal conviction against an attorney and his law firm was reversed on grounds of insufficient evidence by the New York Appellate Division for the Second Judicial Department. The convictions involved charges of a scheme…