May 2022 LEMR Article This article is featured in Volume 3, Number 5 of the Legal Ethics and Malpractice Reporter. Over the past several years, many businesses, social organizations, and educational institutions have led initiatives to encourage individuals to declare their preferred gender pronouns. We now often see this reflected in the signature to emails, […]
May 2022 LEMR Lead Article This article is featured in Volume 3, Number 5 of the Legal Ethics and Malpractice Reporter. What better time than the quiet days of summer to review one of the most basic and most important sets of rules regarding lawyer behavior—rules regulating fees? Model Rule 1.5 is the basis for […]
Contents FEATURE ARTICLE: A Brief History of Lawyers’ Fees NEW AUTHORITY: Gender Pronoun Preferences ETHICS & MALPRACTICE RESEARCH TIP: New Articles Drawn from the Current Index of Legal Periodicals BLAST FROM THE PAST: Some Fees Charged by Abraham Lincoln in 1837 EDITED BY: Professor Mike Hoeflich PUBLISHED BY: Joseph, Hollander & Craft LLC View or […]
April 2022 LEMR Lead Article This article is featured in Volume 3, Number 4 of the Legal Ethics and Malpractice Reporter. On April 13, 2022, the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility released Formal Opinion 501, which provides guidance on compliance with Rule 7.3 and its interaction with Rules 8.4 and […]
April 2022 LEMR Article This article is featured in Volume 3, Number 4 of the Legal Ethics and Malpractice Reporter. On The Supreme Court of Ohio issued an opinion on February 12, 2020, in a disciplinary case in which a lawyer, Natalie J. Bahan, was accused of violating the prohibition against direct solicitation under Ohio […]
Contents FEATURE ARTICLE: ABA Formal Opinion 501: Supervising Solicitation NEW AUTHORITY: An Ohio Case on Rule 7.3(a) ETHICS & MALPRACTICE RESEARCH TIP: New Articles Drawn from the Current Index of Legal Periodicals BLAST FROM THE PAST: Clarence Darrow’s Cynical Appraisal of Justice EDITED BY: Professor Mike Hoeflich PUBLISHED BY: Joseph, Hollander & Craft LLC View […]