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.
LEGAL FEES–THE UNREASONABLE AND THE UNCONSCIONABLE
PERMISSIBLE LEGAL FEES--A DISCOURSE Michael Sean Quinn* www.michaelseanquinn.com Lawyering is a noble profession. After all, it has to do with establishing justice and maintaining social stability. The...
Tatoos, Criminal Trials, and Legal Ethics
MURDER ACCUSATIONS, TEMPORARY TATOO CONCEALMENT, AND THE PRACTICE OF LAW Michael Sean Quinn* www.michaelseanquinn.com Each of the following men, X, Y, and Z, is to be conceived as a defendant accused...
Lusitania Salvage — Part XIII
SECOND LUSITANIA BEMIS SALVAGE CASE—Part XIII On August 5,2015 I published a blog-essay with the above title in the blog chain "Quinn's Commentaries on Insurance Law." It pertains to a case the reported decision of which contains a very interesting discussion of a...
Thinking About Hiring/Retaining a Lawyer?
WATCH OUT FOR "BEST OF" CLAIMS Michael Sean Quinn* Virtually all lawyer and law firms now have websites. Virtually all websites have actually, pseudo-, and quasi-resumes for the lawyers. These are often entitled "Best of ________," though often it is an...
Insurance Defense Law: The So-Called Tripartite Problem and Its Solution
Insurance Lawyers and Their Conflict of Interest Problems: An Essay on “Scope Configuration” and The “Shaping of Scopes” Michael Sean Quinn, Ph.D., J.D., C.P.C.U., Etc.[1] This long essay started as a lecture to a CLE group. I began the lecture by asserting that...
Consensual Sex and the Client-Lawyer Relationship–The Relationships Among Relationships
NO SEX FOR LAWYERS AND CLIENTS TOGETHER, EXCEPT. . . . Michael Sean Quinn www.michaelseanquinn.com* The "Model Rules" of the American Bar Association are the central model for the rules of professional ethics for lawyers in virtually all jurisdiction, with some...
Privacy Rights, Pocket Calls, Legal Ethics
I am about to tell you a story by way of summarizing a lawsuit about a biz guy, a pocket-call, his having a right he might have thought have had but didn’t, and his wife’s actual rights. A twisted tale, true? The point of telling the tale here is to ask...
Unresolvable Paradox? Lawyers’ Duty to Justice and Obligations to Clients
LAW GOVERNING LAWYER AND JUSTICE CONTRADICT EACH OTHER Michael Sean Quinn* www.michaelseanquinn.com Justice in disputes requires that participants be treated objectively and fairly. If the majority...
Crimes Against Lawyers — Fraudulent Lien Documents
ONE CRIMINAL CONVICTION PRODUCES THREE MORE Michael Sean Quinn* Poor Texan Tyrone (or as he may have been known in federal prison, "Tyrone the Texan"). He was convicted in 2010 of money laundering and smuggling aliens. He got 63 months and another 3 years parole....
Lusitania Disaster: the Mixed Claims Commission, and American Nationals Only
Evan Jones: Wales, America, Iowa and the Illegitimate Daughter: Nobody Got Anything--Part XI.E Michael Sean Quinn* Evan Jones was a Welshman who came to the United States, married, and...
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