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.
DEDICATED LAWYERING–Work/Life Balance
"I WISH I HADN'T" – THE LAWYER AND THE LAW FIRM It is now fashionable to "report" this: "'Men who have dedicated immense amounts of time to work look back over their lives and say, 'I wish I hadn't. I wish I had spent more time with my family,' but no men ever...
“Breadwinner Moms” & Law Firms
The Pew Research Center just published a report entitled "Breadwinner Moms." It is the talk of the "daily talk shows" or the "argument shows." What people have love to talk about is that the report is said to show that 40%, or so of married women who have...
Legal Ethics: Excessive Fees (An Old Story)
Legal Fees and Legal History Many say that the legal profession is going to hell in part because of excessive fees. Some critics carry on like this is a new thing which has cropped up by as a result of the fact that the practice of law is now a business as opposed to...
The Unhappy Legal Culture–Part I
Evidence from "Don't Do It" Is there really evidence that the legal profession is in a state of decline? Evidence is weak, at best. See Richard A. Epstein, "The Rule of Lawyers" WALL STREET JOURNAL (May 6, 2013) (This was an insightful article and review of Steven...
Fen-Phen Judge Disbarred in Kentucky
This story is being told as background to the next post. It pertains to Stanley Chesley, a "Madoffian" rip off artist, at least in his aging years. Lawyers stole substantially more than $100M from their client early-ish in this century. Those involved were...
LAWYERS, LAW FIRMS & BUSINESS(ES)
It is often said that law as a business, law firms conceptualized as businesses, lawyers thinking of themselves as businessmen (or women), etc. is relatively new to the legal profession, relatively new to the way lawyers conceive of themselves (and their professional...
Observations Regarding Depositions
Witnesses and Therefore Lawyers in Depositions, Third Observations Previously, in another post, I set forth a few ways to proceed in depositions and deposition preparation. Here are a few more: (1) When a (W)itness is questioned about anything which is not simple,...
Lawyer Firms Swindled–BIG TIME
A man named Emmanuel Ekhator pleaded guilty a short time ago in federal court for heading up a con-ring no doubt among other charges. The screw-job ended up doing $70m in damages. They were caught by the cooperative efforts of various Canadian and United States...
Legal Malpractice When Law Is Unsettled
Can a lawyer be guilty of malpractice when the law is uncertain, undeveloped, internally controversial or internally in conflict with itself? The Alaska Supreme Court has said, "Yes." It did this in two cases, one of which was a dram shop case and the other an...
Three Riddles of Recusal
In what well known and historically significant appellate court decision should one of the members of the tribunal been recused, at least by today's standards, probably by him/her-self, or, if not in that way, by other members of the court, and if not in either of...
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