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 BILLED BY THE HOUR
REASONABLENESS OF “HOURLY” LEGAL FEES--A SUMMARY OF SOME CONSIDERATIONS, THOUGH NOT THE SUM, OF THEM ALL Michael Sean Quinn, Ph.D., J.D., Etc.* See the end Lawyers are fiduciaries of their clients. Lawyers have duties to their clients at the “fiduciary level.” This...
Discovery Phraseology: “fail to reach out” versus. “mistake,” etc.
ON USING THE PHRASE “REACHING OUT” Michael Sean Quinn, Ph.D., J.D.* Often in depositions and/or trial testimony—more frequently depositions, of course, a lawyer (“L”) asks a witness (“W”) whether s/he contacted another person for some important purpose. Here are some...
Legal Ethics, Sanctions in Litigation, General Morality
UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE(S) OF ACCEPTABLE LAW PRACTICE Michael Sean Quinn, Ph.D., J.D.* The following words come from Leroy Haeger v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., CV-05-02046-PHX-ROS (D.Ariz). November 8, 2012). Indeed, they are the opening...
LEGAL MARKETS AND THE NEW ADVERTISING OF CLIENTS
LAWYER MARKETS AND CLIENT ADVERTISING Michael Sean Quinn* What happens in and to a market when the prices of those selling goods and services rise beyond consumer expectations and/or consumer tolerance? How might all this happen in the market place for legal services...
Lusitania: Bemis and the Minister
THIRD LUSITANIA BEMIS SALVAGE CASE: Irish Administrative Law and Litigation—Part XIV Michael Sean Quinn* This blog essay is probably the last of a whole series of Lusitania pieces. the last one was entitled Lusitania Salvage Part XIII, and it was dated 8/5/15...
Crime Against Divorce Lawyer: Hacked by Husband with Hatchet
REVIVING OLD, NON-DIGITAL, MEANINGS FOR THE NOW--PARTLY--CYBER-“WORLD” WORD, “HACK” Michael Sean Quinn* Not exactly. But close. The problem is that the word “hack” has at least five meanings. Some are related, but not all of them. One of them is a verb that...
Lawyer(?) and Certainly Paralegal Crime: Stealing and/or Forging Judges’ Signatures
CRIMES OF A PARALEGAL AND MAYBE A LAWYER Michael Sean Quinn* Imagine a law firm (PIF) the principal work of which is personal injury litigation. Now suppose that it/they have a large number of cases involving settlements. Sometimes these cases involve many plaintiffs,...
Lawyer Crime Charged: Murder and More
SELF-DEFENSE THAT LED TO ARREST Michael Sean Quinn* L, 31, is a tenants' rights lawyer. His group, Eviction Defense Collaborative, had a male Swiss-British "Intern" or "Law Clerk" ("In"), 21. To celebrate the end of his internship, a group from the firm--or maybe...
LAWYER TEMPTATIONS AND HOURLY BILL
"BLOCK-BILLING" DESPISED, BLOCKED AND REJECTED. . . .THOUGH NOT FORGOTTEN Michael Sean Quinn* There is a group of generally and universally accepted, obligatory principles and standards for determining the acceptability of legal fees when the lawyer is billing by the...
BLOCK BILLING OF LEGAL FEES. . . . FORBIDDEN PARTLY
"BLOCK-BILLING"--DESPISED, BLOCKED AND REJECTED. . . .THOUGH NOT FORGOTTEN BUT CONTINUALLY TRIED, ALAS Michael Sean Quinn* It is now agreed that the crude block billing of legal fees is forbidden as a pernicious practice. Lawyers don't want this rule. Too...
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