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.
“Go Fuck Yourself,” said the lawyer. . . .
NEGOTIATION ETHICS Michael Sean Quinn* Not long ago two lawyers represented clients in a bitter lawsuit. There had been much discovery, many hearings, and considerable negotiations. As the trial approached L#1 proposed a settlement to L#2 which was even more...
Lawyers Helping Hillary With Emails: No Intentional Misconduct, FBI Says
HILLARY'S LAWYERS, HILLARY'S EMAILS, and PROBLEMS OF E-DISCOVERY Michael Sean Quinn* Before producing her emails to the State Department in 2014, her lawyers sorted through thousands of emails she had in her possession. Lets say the number was 60,000, plus or minus....
TRUMP’S LAWYER-MENTOR AND HIS EVIL “GOD”: ROY COHN
GUNS IN THE PULSE CLUB Michael Sean Quinn* Presidential candidate Donald trumpeted roughly the following following the "Orlando Massacre." "If one of the "guests" in the club had been armed, and had used the pistol to deal with the terrorist...
LAWYER BIRD CRIME: SHOOTING (OR, AT LEAST, TORTURING AND/OR KILLING) THE BIRD
HAWK TRAPPING AND KILLING Michael Sean Quinn* It is a crime under federal law, in particular the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, to trap and/or kill red-tailed hawks. A wealthy and ashamed South Carolina L confessed with tears in his eyes to doing exactly. This disgraced...
TRUMP, the JUDGE, and his LAWYERS
A WAY OUT FOR DONALD There is really only one way out for Donald regarding his attack on the California federal judge over seeing (and perhaps before whom will be tried) the "Trump University" cases. 1. Make a personal statement that in those cases his...
Lawyer Advocacy, Forms of
AGGRESSIVENESS IN CASE PRESENTATION: BEST RHETORIC? BEST ORATORY? Michael Sean Quinn* A great many trial lawyers believe in being aggressive. That term can apply to the presentation of cases in various ways. First, it may apply to many different contexts:...
LAWYER ACCUSED OF “SEX CRIME”
FLORIDA LAWYER RUNS LAUNDRY: A QUASI-COMICAL CRIME Michael Sean Quinn* A prominent 20+year lawyer (L) in Florida recently found himself very short of money. He and a Florida woman (W), the US Attorney charges agreed to launder money. It was a sting. FBI agents invited...
HAPPINESS FOR LAWYERS: Gospel According to David Whyte
DAVID WHYTE, AUTHOR: THE THREE MARRIAGES Michael Sean Quinn* David Whyte is a poet, lecturer, sometime MBA professor (at least of sorts), and other things as well. See www.davidwhyte.com. He has written an unusual and brilliant book entitled THE THREE...
EXORBITANT LEGAL FEES
ABSURD LEGAL FEES Michael Sean Quinn* Within the last few days, LAW 360, notified the public that the highest known explicitly billed hourly fees is now $2000.00 per hour, a substantial increase since the last survey. Within a day or two, on May 12, 2016,...
JUDICIAL INDISCRETION AND FILTHY PHOTOS
PORN PICS OF DEFENDANTS OUTSIDE JUDICIAL DISCRETION (NOT TO MENTION PRUDENCE) Michael Sean Quinn* "There once was a judge from Ar-kansas. . . ." -- Never mind. An Arkansas judge ("ArkJ")--granted he was only part time--was under investigation for granting...
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