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.
Law, Conservatism, and Creativity
LAW'S INHERENT CONSERVATISM AND THE LIMITS ON CREATIVITY By their nature legal systems are mostly conservative. For the most part, the future must rely on the past, at least because legal decisions must be predictable in order to be justice. Of course, this is...
ANTITRUST LAWSUITS AGAINST BIG TECH GIANTS
MONOPOLIES BE DAMNED–FULL SPEED AHEAD! Ive always loved antitrust law. It was one of my favorite courses in law school. I was a sucker for old-school progressivism. Alas, I recognized immediately that, while it would be wonderful to think about these sorts of public...
Deposition Cross-Examination and Semantic Quibbles as Impeachment
EXACTLY WHERE WAS SHE (AND YOU) WHEN SHE OVERDOSED AND DIED? Gloria overdosed on cocaine one night. She was in a bed. The bed was that of a male friend. It was a big bed. The male slept close to one edge, while the woman was close to the other. They were not...
DEPOSITIONS: TRAP QUESTIONS – HONEST ANSWERS
ANSWERING NEFARIOUS DEPO QUESTIONS: HOW TO DO IT Here are several versions of roughly the same questions asked at (or toward the end) of may depositions. "Have you understood the questions I have asked you?" "Have you understood each of the questions you have...
Paid-to-Appeal Scheme and the Law-of-Lawyering + Legal Ethics
BAYER'S ROUNDTOP® LITIGATION: CAN BAYER PAY SEMI-DEFEATED PLAINTIFF TO APPEAL HIS CASE? Bayer put out a product some years ago named "Roundup®." It was a weed-killer. Allegedly it causes cancer in some, and Bayer allegedly failed to warn purchasers about this...
RIDICULOUSLY EXCESSIVE LEGAL FEES
ABSURDLY ENORMOUS HOURLY LEGAL FEES IN ROUTINE SEXUAL HARASSMENT CASE AND ALL OTHERS--FORERSHAME Eric Holder Jr. is billing at $2,295 per hour. It does not matter that he is a partner at the law firm of Covington & Burling. It does not matter that he was formerly...
LEGAL MALPRACTICE LAW–MULTIDIMENSIONAL
LEGAL MALPRACTICE Do you wonder why the recovery approach is called "legal malpractice," rather than "lawyer malpractice" or "attorney malpractice?" I think the reason is that persons other than lawyers can be sued for this and can suffer judgments against them. Why...
2021 Election Law — Law Firms
BIG TEXAS LAW FIRMS & STATE ELECTION LAW ALTERATIONSMichael Sean Quinn, Ph.D., J.D. C.P.C.U., Etc.A fair number of large businesses (aka corporations) are objecting in various ways to election alterations in various states. The degree of opposition...
PROBLEMS IN LAWYER BILLING
HOW TO THINK ABOUT BILLING TWO PROBLEMSMichael Sean Quinn, Ph,D., J.D.The first problem is that time records are always estimated to one degree or another, although bar leadership makes it sound like exactitude is required. That can't be done. The...
ON OVER-DOING THINGS
WRITING AND SPEAKING FOR LAWYERSMichael Sean Quinn, Ph.D., J.D., Etc.My grandmother, Ruth Probert, was a witty woman, an excellent ironist, and a person of considerable wisdom. I didn't pay nearly as much attention to her personally during her long life or...
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