Featured Topic No Quid Pro Quo: Settling Civil Claims While Criminal Charges Are Pending By Guest Author J. Nick Badgerow[1] I. INTRODUCTION – OVERVIEW While it is thankfully not a common situation, civil claims sometimes do arise as a result of alleged criminal conduct. This leads to a civil lawsuit against a defendant and a […]
New Authority Maryland Judicial Ethics Committee Opinion 2021-10 As we approach the beginning of the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, it becomes increasingly clear that many of the ethical problems that lawyers and judges face today were nearly unthinkable in the “Before Times.” Rarely before the pandemic would anyone have needed to ask whether […]
Cryptocurrency and divorce by Family Law Attorney Rylee Broyles These days, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies1 are all the rage. As such, the issue of bitcoin is bound to pop up in divorce cases. While the idea of dividing bitcoin as a marital asset might be a foreign and daunting concept to divorce practitioners (especially the […]
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 […]
U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers® announced today that the Topeka and Wichita offices of Joseph, Hollander & Craft earned six Best Law Firms rankings for 2022: Tier 1: Criminal Defense, General Practice – Topeka Metro Area Criminal Defense, White-Collar – Topeka Metro Area Tier 2: Criminal Defense, General Practice – Wichita Metro […]
Joseph, Hollander & Craft criminal defense attorney Christopher Joseph received an opportunity to comment on the Kansas Supreme Court case concerning Marty K. Clark, former magistrate judge for the 20th Judicial District in Russell, KS. Joseph is Clark’s attorney. According to an October 29 Associated Press article, Joseph said that, “punishing Clark for sending nude […]