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Did ethics case constitute ‘crying in baseball’? Kansas supremes debate discipline as ‘sword’

Updated: A Kansas attorney has received a six-month stayed suspension for making “inflammatory attacks” on an opposing counsel and including “irrelevant information” in a court filing intended to diminish his client’s estranged wife.

Nov 14, 2024 1:02 PM CST

Gaetz resigned days before ethics investigation report expected

The House Ethics Committee was set to vote this week on releasing a report about Matt Gaetz (R-Florida), who resigned from Congress on Wednesday after being picked as President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general.

Nov 14, 2024 8:18 AM CST

Judge recuses from Arizona case over his email denouncing attacks on Harris

The judge overseeing Arizona’s case against allies of former president Donald Trump over their alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results recused himself late Tuesday, after it emerged he had emailed colleagues urging them to speak out against conservative attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris’s gender and racial identity.

Nov 14, 2024 8:15 AM CST

Lawyer accused of stealing over $31K from jailed woman after she signed power of attorney at his request

A lawyer in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, has been accused of stealing more than $31,000 from an imprisoned woman awaiting a competency hearing after she agreed to sign an agreement giving power of attorney to his employee.

Nov 13, 2024 9:51 AM CST

Appeals judge told state attorney how to handle resentencing while badmouthing others, texts indicate

A Florida appeals judge who obtained a 2004 murder conviction of an alleged gang leader texted advice to the Miami-Dade, Florida, state attorney handling his resentencing while “denigrating defense attorneys and badmouthing local judges,” according to the Miami Herald.

Nov 12, 2024 11:34 AM CST

Lawyer suspended after arguing cocaine enhanced his cognition

A former public defender accused of representing a client at a November 2022 preliminary hearing while under the influence of cocaine has received a suspension of a year and a day.

Nov 7, 2024 11:55 AM CST

Once-liberal lawyer said to be ‘brains’ behind 2020 election-interference scheme suspended from practice

A New York appeals court has ordered the interim suspension of lawyer Kenneth Chesebro following his guilty plea in Georgia’s 2020 election-interference case.

Nov 6, 2024 8:26 AM CST

‘Watchdogs’ author has no regrets about choosing civil service over the NBA

Glenn Fine’s career-long crusade against corruption might have its roots in his college days as a point guard for the Harvard basketball team. He played his personal best against Boston College—in a game that he later discovered had been fixed by the mob.

Nov 6, 2024 8:11 AM CST

Courtroom ‘is not a theater’ for unsubstantiated election claims, says letter signed by 125 bar leaders

All lawsuits—including election-related actions—must be “grounded in fact, supported by law and free from improper motives,” according to an open letter signed by 125 past and current bar leaders when it was published Monday evening.

Nov 5, 2024 12:42 PM CST

Lawyer’s mistaken Zelle transfer leads to ethics complaint

An Ohio lawyer mistakenly sent $550 via money transfer app Zelle to an Illinois resident, peppered him with emails and texts while a bank fraud department investigated, and then sued him after the money was returned, according to an ethics complaint by the Dayton Bar Association.

Nov 5, 2024 9:30 AM CST

BigLaw firm sanctioned for ‘flagrant violations of a protective order’

Latham & Watkins and its client must pay an attorney-fee sanction for “flagrant violations of a protective order,” according to a federal judge in California.

Nov 4, 2024 2:36 PM CST

Sanction against Northwestern law prof affirmed by 10th Circuit

A federal appeals court has affirmed a $5,000 sanction against a professor at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law for seeking to remove a state court motion to federal court, finding no abuse of discretion by a federal judge who imposed it.

Oct 31, 2024 2:45 PM CDT

Did ethics case constitute ‘crying in baseball’? Kansas supremes debate discipline as ‘sword’

Gaetz resigned days before ethics investigation report expected

Judge recuses from Arizona case over his email denouncing attacks on Harris

Lawyer accused of stealing over $31K from jailed woman after she signed power of attorney at his request

Appeals judge told state attorney how to handle resentencing while badmouthing others, texts indicate

Lawyer suspended after arguing cocaine enhanced his cognition

Once-liberal lawyer said to be ‘brains’ behind 2020 election-interference scheme suspended from practice

‘Watchdogs’ author has no regrets about choosing civil service over the NBA

Courtroom ‘is not a theater’ for unsubstantiated election claims, says letter signed by 125 bar leaders

Lawyer’s mistaken Zelle transfer leads to ethics complaint

BigLaw firm sanctioned for ‘flagrant violations of a protective order’

Sanction against Northwestern law prof affirmed by 10th Circuit

Kirkland partner can’t present argument or evidence because he ‘crossed the lines’ of court orders, judge says

Judge is accused of using racial slur, vulgar terms and ‘libtard’ label for employee offended by his comments

4th Circuit upholds $1M sanction for law firm that tried to ‘sabotage’ federal court’s authority

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