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.
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...
Worn-Out Lawyer Cliches
When a word is used too often, it wears out, and becomes insignificant, unconvincing, and ignored by the listener or the reader. Some terms used by lawyers are like that. Important terms become distractions of no interest. Some even become...
DEPOSITIONS & OTHER TESTIMONY
DEPOSITIONS & OTHER TESTIMONY: SOME WORDS TO AVOID, SOMETIMES In litigation, as in any other of life's various contexts, there are terms to be avoided. I may provide some of them from time to time. Here today I want to present four of them, and I...
Depositions & Leading Questions
VALUABLE-LEADING-QUESTION STRATEGIES: CREATE BETTER DEPOSITIONS Many lawyers taking depositions focus on non-leading questions to find out what the witness is going to say. They see leading questions as restricted, or best used only, in cross examination. ...
Lawyer HowTo for Depositions: A Few Problems & Dealing with Them
I have taken many depositions (100s) and given more than a few (130+) myself. Here are three problems I have encountered. They can be thought of by witnesses or by lawyers. Other ideas may be presented later. I. Don't Understand the Question...
Very Short Commentary: Eleven Commandments
Comments: This blog might be called "Quinn's Eleven Commandments"; It includes some comments. some comments. The reader should remember that this list and to some extent the comments are intended to be simplistic, but quick and helpful...
Legal Malpractice
Here is some speculations about characteristics of legal malpractice actions. They are not based on systematically gathered empirical evidence; they are collected by some experience, some watching, huge amounts of reading, lots of studying, and teaching a...
AGREEMENTS UNDER INTERNATONAL LAW: A SPECIAL CASE
AGREEMENTS--"NEAR TREATIES"-- UNDER INTER- NATIONAL LAW--HOW TO READ THEM--A SPECIAL CASEThe answer is really quite simple, at least for Anglo-American readers, like educated lawyers. They are to be read as if they are statutes. Broadly speaking, the principles...
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