May 26 roundup
U.K.: Disciplinary complaints against lawyers may be thrown open to public and press [Times Online] U.S. Chamber adds three new stories to its “Faces of Lawsuit Abuse” series, among them the...
View Article“Client Had ‘Disposable Income and a Zealous Interest in Litigating’”
And a train wreck results, after a Massachusetts lawyer “allowed the client to dictate a misguided strategy involving excessive and improper discovery requests that did not materially advance the...
View ArticleU.K.: “Lawyers quit litigation against alleged file-sharers”
From Computing (UK): Law firm Tilly Bailey & Irvine (TBI) has stopped the bulk mailing of legal threats on behalf of rights holders to people accused of illegal file-sharing. The move follows a...
View ArticleOffering to trade legal services for sexual favors
Over dissents from two justices, the New Jersey Supreme Court has declined to disbar an attorney who made “repeated, demeaning and offensive suggestions to his clients” in “an effort to barter his...
View Article“Proposed plan would keep lawyer misconduct secret”
“Under the proposed rule change [at the Iowa Supreme Court], lawyers suspended for stealing from clients, drug and alcohol problems, and neglecting important cases could hide what they did and resume...
View ArticleLawyer billed client “for time they spent having sex”
The ultimate Overlawyered story? Minnesota: “An Eagan lawyer is suspended indefinitely after having an affair with a client whom he represented in a divorce, then billing her for time they spent having...
View Article“Elimination of bias” for Minnesota lawyers
Scott Johnson at Power Line has a lookback-with-updates on the controversy over Minnesota CLE (continuing legal education) requirements precariously balanced between indoctrination and vacuity. “What...
View Article“Man, the California State Bar is really cracking down these days…”
“…Slip up just 810 times and they’ll insist on disbarring you.” [Lowering the Bar] Tweet Tags: bar associations, California, legal discipline “Man, the California State Bar is really cracking down...
View Article“Why Were None of the Righthaven Lawyers Disciplined?”
The courts themselves reacted vigorously against the legal shenanigans of a copyright-mill mass filing enterprise built on the IP rights of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Nevada bar discipline...
View ArticleSome legal ethics don’ts
“Don’t purchase a domain entitled ‘firetheliarjudge dot com’ if you plan on continuing to practice law,” and most especially don’t … well, you’ll have to read the allegations yourself [Keith Lee,...
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