Legal Ethics Forum
This blawg discusses recent court decisions and news stories related to legal ethics issues—lawyer advertising, attorney-client privilege, multijurisdictional practice—and follows news stories of allegations and trials related to lawyer or judicial misconduct.
Author: Law professor contributors: John S. Dzienkowski, University of Texas; Brad Wendel, Cornell University; John Steele, a lecturer at the University of California-Berkeley and Santa Clara University; Andrew Perlman, Suffolk University; David McGowan, University of San Diego; Laura Appleman, Willamette College of Law; Anita Bernstein, New York Law School; Don Burnett, University of Idaho Law School; Steve Berenson, Thomas Jefferson School of Law; Monroe H. Freedman, Hofstra University Law School; and David Hricik of Mercer University, who also edits Statutory Construction Blog and contributes to Legalethics.com.
Blawg Related Categories: Law Practice Management • Legal Ethics • Trials & Litigation • Cornell Law School • Hofstra University • Mercer University, Walter F. George School of Law • New York Law School • Santa Clara University • Suffolk University • Thomas Jefferson School of Law • University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall • University of Idaho • University of San Diego • University of Texas • Willamette University • Law Professor • Blawg 100
Recent Posts from Legal Ethics Forum
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Cleary sanctions upheld
Folks who believe that the ethics regime needs to be more willing to focus punishments on entire firms, not just individual lawyers, should be cheered by yesterday's ruling by the Second Circuit upholding sanctions for…
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UCI to offer course on fact investigation
According to the Daily Journal (which doesn't post content on the web), the new UCI law school will have an experienced reporter, Henry Weinstein, teach a course on factual investigation. Weinstein taught that course at…
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More on teaching normative method
I enjoyed David's (helpfully) provocative post on teaching normative method, though I disagree with it on several levels. I'm not a philosopher, nor do I play one in the classroom, so I'll leave the nuances…
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What's Law School About?
Warning: This isn't very coherent. I've been teaching full time for 5 years, and previously taught as an adjunct probably for a total of five years, at schools ranging from the the top -- U…
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The Importance of an Objective Appearances Standard for Judicial Recusal
The facts of the Hood case (Texas death penalty), which has been discussed earlier, illustrates the importance of an objective and broadly-phrased appearances standard for judicial recusal. It is not unlikely that the judge in…
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A Systematic Analysis of Lawyers' Ethics Based on Dignity and Autonomy
As Abbe Smith and I say in the third edition (2004) of Understanding Lawyers’ Ethics: “This book presents a systematic position on lawyers’ ethics. We argue that lawyers’ ethics is rooted in the Bill of…
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Yellow-Light Words and the Teaching of Normative Method
I would like to add an acidic voice to our discussion of legal ethics, dignity, and normativity. Words like fair(ness), just(ice), dignity, autonomy, flourishing, and the like, are the yellow lights of legal ethics discourse.…
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Luban on "When a good prosecutor throws a case"
They're having an intereting thread at Balkinization, where David Luban's post praised a prosecutor who "threw" a case. In the comments, Stephen Gillers and I disagreed with Luban.
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Yoo testifies before Congress
The Balkin site is covering Yoo's testimony before Congress. Yoo's written testimony is here. UPDATE: C-Span has the testimony online, here.
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Government checking law students' MySpace pages?
The recent report on political bias in hiring of law students at DOJ, mentioned below by Brad, reveals that the federal government, as an employer, was poking around in the law student applicants' MySpace pages.…