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.
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Recent Posts from Legal Profession Blog
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A Fun Read
Jayanth Krishnan at Indiana (Bloomington) is expanding his ouevre of comparative legal profession studies with his latest on SSRN, The Joint Law Venture: A Pilot Study (here). As with his other work, this one's an…
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Judge Suspended For Practicing Law
The Arkansas Supreme Court declined to adopt a proposed removal of a circuit court judge by its Judicial Discipline and Disabilities Commission and suspended the judge through the end of his term of office in…
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Operation Wrinkled Robe
The Louisiana Supreme Court has ordered the removal of an elected judge of a circuit court of appeal for willful misconduct in office. The judge had inherited a accident case involving a reserve deputy sheriff…
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Bumpy Road To Recovery
A Louisiana hearing committee has recommended the readmission of a disbarred lawyer. The lawyer was conditionally admitted to practice in 2003 as a result of DUI charges. The conditions required compliance with a recovery contract…
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Pardon Precludes Sex Offender Registration
The Delaware Supreme Court has held that the Governor's unconditional pardon of a convicted sex offender operates to prevent the State from requiring the pardoned individual from registering as an offender. The court held, in…
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Disorganized Client, Admonished Attorney
Not sure whether or not we previously posted this admonition from Vermont, but it does serve as a cautionary tale for taking on a matter outside of the attorneys area of competence. The facts: Respondent…
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New From South Carolina
The South Carolina Supreme Court has denied relief to Governor Mark Sanford and the Speaker of the South Carolina House of Representatives in an appeal over the confidentiality of an ethics probe. The court describes…
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Louis Menand on the Marketplace of Ideas
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw I've just pre-ordered a copy of Louis Menand's new book The Marketplace of Ideas, part of the "Issues of our Time" series edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., based on the…
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No Automatic Disbarment For Immigration Fraud
The New York Appellate Division for the First Judicial Department rejected the contention that a lawyer's conviction in federal court for conspiracy to commit immigration fraud should result in automatic disbarment. The court suspended the…
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30 Days Lasts Nine Years
The Indiana Supreme Court ordered the reinstatement of an attorney who had been suspended for 30 days with a requirement that he petition for reinstatement on June 9, 2000. The court found that the petitioner…