Featured Topic ABA Formal Opinion 500 The United States is becoming a more diverse nation in virtually every way, and this increasing diversity is impacting the legal profession in significant ways as well. One aspect of our nation’s increasing diversity is linguistic. For more and more Americans, English is not a first language, and, in […]
The Kansas City Star and the Topeka Capital-Journal both interviewed Joseph, Hollander & Craft criminal defense attorney Casey Meek for comment on the DUI sentencing of Sen. Gene Suellentrop. (Meek previously commented on the case when interviewed by the Star back in March.) While some perceived Sen. Suellentrop’s sentence to be too lenient, Meek dismissed […]
Joseph, Hollander & Craft civil attorney Diane Bellquist will be delivering a CLE session on “The Lawyer Discipline Process” at the Kansas Independent Oil & Gas Association seminar on October 29, 2021. Learn more and register at the Wichita Bar CLE page.
Joseph, Hollander & Craft is delighted to announce that two JHC legal staff — Rylee Broyles and Desiree Smith — have been promoted to associate after passing the Kansas bar exam. Rylee and Desiree will both be working in our Wichita office. Rylee will be working with the civil and domestic practice groups while Desiree […]
Featured in the Legal Ethics & Malpractice Reporter, Vol. 2, No. 9 Edited by Professor Mike Hoeflich On September 8, 2021, the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility issued Formal Opinion 499 on lawyer investments in what have come to be called “Alternate Business Structures”—entities in which lawyers and non-lawyers share […]
Featured in the Legal Ethics & Malpractice Reporter, Vol. 2, No. 9 Edited by Professor Mike Hoeflich This month, the New York State Bar Association issued Ethics Opinion 1229, which discusses what a lawyer should do when she has been presented with a settlement offer but discovers that the client has died before being able […]