There are various ways in which lawyers can run into legal-related problems or issues of legal ethics including civil lawsuits, legal malpractice, and breach of fiduciary duty or lawyer criminality and its consequences for discipline.
Topics: legal malpractice, legal ethics, civil lawsuits, fiduciary duty, lawyer criminality, and discipline.
CRIMES JUDGE (SMALL BUT SERIOUS) + SUPPLEMENT (3/16/15)
PARADIGMATIC JUDICIAL UNFITNESS Michael Sean Quinn* Acts demonstrating a judges unfitness to serve, need not be outrageous in the sense of being in the first order of magnitude. Some are quite harmless though in appropriate, e.g., email a mistress while on the bench,...
CRIME BY LAWYER
Client Extortion: Unusual Facts, Strange Result Michael Sean Quinn* Suppose there are two lawyers, L-1 and L-2, and they are in the same law firm. B represents C in a criminal matter. It seems that C has been involved in a drive-by shooting at or near the house of...
ON THE DEFENSE OF DEBTORS
THE JOYS OF DEFENDING DEBTORS, Part I Michael Sean Quinn* Until recently I had never defended a debtor and hadn't done bankruptcy work in many years, though I have done a couple of collection cases, I confess, connected to law firms. (I have consistently advised...
MEGYN KELLY v. DONALD TRUMP
LAWYER MEGYN v. WITNESS DONALD Michael Sean Quinn* Q. Given that you have called at least one woman a "fat pig" and described other women by insulting epithets, why should you of all people be elected President of the USA? Do you really have the right temperament for...
DOG BITE CASE AND JURY QUESTIONS
THREE BITES AND JURY QUESTIONS IN TEXAS Michael Sean Quinn* Suppose the large dog, Ruffian, belonging to A bites B three times in A's front yard, where A and B were having a hostile but peaceful conversation. In other words, the two disagrees and argued they cases....
NUNC PRO TUNC JUDGMENTS, TEXAS STYLE
NUNC PRO TUNC JUDGMENTS: "BETWEEN-NESS" IS ESSENTIAL Michael Sean Quinn* A "nunc pro tunc" ("now for then") judgment is a device for replacing an already existing final judgment after the court has lost its otherwise plenary power over the judgment. A trial...
THE CONCEPT OF “COMPENSATION”
DAMAGES AND COMPENSATION IN CIVIL LITIGATION Michael Sean Quinn* You can't have enough legal education. If you studied damages in law school and if you have been out of law school for more than six months, it's time to go back to the fundamentals. The Supreme Court of...
SAME SEX MARRIAGE–JUDICIAL REVOLT? JUDGES REVOLTED? JUDGED REVOLTING?
NO GAY MARRIAGES AROUND HERE, PERIOD?: A Tennessee Judicial Ethics Case Michael Sean Quinn* A judge ("J") announced the pending dismissal of a post gay marriage divorce case in which each spouse was suing the other on the grounds that the U.S. Supreme Court has...
Some Legal Dictionary Entry Conjectures:”Order, Adjudged, and Decreed”
"ORDERED, ADJUDGED and DECREED" Michael Sean Quinn** One frequently sees two or three of the above three words conjoined in court documents, such as final orders, final judgments, final decrees, judicial decisions, decisions of courts, and/or interlocutory entries of...
Another Penda Prick Pricked
PRIDE GOETH BEFORE Ch 7 Michael Sean Quinn* The Prenda Law Firm was a mostly California establishment, with some lawyers elsewhere, whose business it was to obtain "'intellectual' property," or stuff like that, and somehow get people to look at it or otherwise...
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