February 2022 LEMR Article This article is featured in Volume 3, Number 2 of the Legal Ethics and Malpractice Reporter. The Covid pandemic has now gone on for more than two years. Much of the American population is tired of the various mitigation methods that have been either required or suggested, while others remain steadfastly […]
February 2022 LEMR Lead Article This article is featured in Volume 3, Number 2 of the Legal Ethics and Malpractice Reporter. The Code of Judicial Conduct warns that a judge is a judge “at all times” and that his “extra-judicial” conduct may be subject to scrutiny—even discipline—if it undermines the judge’s independence, integrity, or impartiality; […]
Contents FEATURE ARTICLE: The Judicial Discipline of Judge Clark FORTHCOMING AUTHORITY: Judicial Commands to Remove the Masks BOOK REVIEW: The Anointed: New York’s White-Shoe Law Firms—How They Started, How they Grew, and How They Ran the Country BLAST FROM THE PAST: Excerpt: The Oath of an Attorney at Law EDITED BY: Professor Mike Hoeflich PUBLISHED […]
Table of Contents Featured Topic So You Want to be a Writer: Ethical Issues for Lawyers New Authority Proposed Amendments to Model Rules of Professional Conduct Ethics and Malpractice Research Tip New Articles Drawn from the Current Index of Legal Periodicals A Blast from the Past A Selection from the Diary of John Quincy Adams […]
Featured Topic So You Want to be a Writer: Ethical Issues for Lawyers By Dr. Michael H. Hoeflich Over the past four decades of my life as a lawyer and law professor, I have been struck by how many lawyers dream of doing something different, either as an alternative to law practice or as a […]
New Authority Proposed Amendments to Model Rules of Professional Conduct By Dr. Michael H. Hoeflich On December 15, 2021, the American Bar Association published a discussion draft of possible amendments to Model Rules of Professional Conduct. These proposed amendments were issued in response to concerns that that the Model Rules, specifically Model Rules 1.0, 1.1, and […]