On July 16, 2021, the North Carolina State Bar issued an ethics opinion that should be of interest to lawyers in every state. It deals with the ethical responsibilities of a lawyer who receives a check from a questionable source for a client which turns out to be part of a “scam.” The facts as […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Welcome to the September edition of the Legal Ethics & Malpractice Reporter. In this edition you will find: Featured Topic: ABA Formal Opinion 499: New Guidance on Attorney Investment in Alternative Business Structures New Authority: NYSBA Ethics Opinion 1229: A Plaintiff’s Lawyer’s Rights and Obligations After a Client’s Death Ethics & Malpractice Research Tip: New Articles […]
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Featured Topic A Lawyer’s Obligation to Prevent the Inadvertent Disclosure of Confidential Client Information New Authority Professional Responsibility Curriculum Law Students Are Learning Today Ethics and Malpractice Research Tip New Articles Drawn from the Current Index of Legal Periodicals A Blast from the Past An Excerpt from Emil Blum and Sigmund Alexander’s […]
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