Featured Topic Defending a Judicial Misconduct Case Just as attorneys tend to focus on upholding their substantive duties under the Code of Professional Responsibility over the procedure that ensues should they be accused of falling short, judges tend to focus on the substance of the Code of Judicial Conduct rather than what proceedings will follow […]
Table of Contents Featured Topic ABA Formal Opinion 500 New Authority NCSB Opinion 2, 2021: A Lawyer’s Professional Responsibility in Identifying and Avoiding Counterfeit Checks Ethics and Malpractice Program Kansas Law Review Symposium 2021: Judicial Conduct and Misconduct A Blast from the Past Honest Lawyers EDITED BY: Professor Mike Hoeflich PUBLISHED BY: Joseph, Hollander & […]
Kansas Law Review Symposium 2021: Judicial Conduct and Misconduct This month, rather than providing scholarly articles for review, the LEMR invites its readers to participate in what promises to be an excellent and informative program with legal ethics scholars from across the nation. For the 2021 Kansas Law Review Symposium, the University of Kansas Law […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]