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.
Crimes of an Aging Lawyer
AGING LAWYERS AND NEW CALLINGS Michael Sean Quinn* The self improvement literature for aging baby boomers has a number of books on how to bounce back or avoid retirement* (“Start something new.”) or how not to quit** “Do it [or not] just right/”). One attractive...
Huge Legal Fees, Commercial Resentment, and Abraham Lincoln
LINCOLN’S LEGAL FEES: ONE CONTROVERSY Michael Sean Quinn* Abe Lincoln has a law practice in Illinois before he was president, as everyone knows. It was a general practice—some litigation, some...
Disputes As to Legal Fees and the Expert Witness
LEGAL FEE INVOICES AND EXPERT WITNESSES Michael Sean Quinn* www.michaelseanquinn.com Court opinions from many states all stand for the proposition that only an attorney can testify as to the...
A LAWYER AND A REALLY SIGNIFICANT FINE ARTS TRANSACTION
A LAWYER AND THE LOST CARAVAGGIO Michael Sean Quinn** www.michaelseanquinn.com Lawyers are from time to time involved in commercial or mercantile problems related to fine art. A few large firms...
Happiness and the Good Lawyer
ALL X’S ARE Ys, but NO ~Y’S ARE Xs? Michael Sean Quinn* www.michaelseanquinn.com I recently ran across an article entitled “A Good and Happy Lawyer.” I found it in a recent issue of something called...
Strokes and the Work-Obsessed Lawyer
Lawyer Long Hours Are Danger to Health Michael Sean Quinn* www.michaelseanquinn Several massive, at least quasi-scientific, and therefore more-or-less reliable studies, indicate that long work hours increase the...
Crime Against Lawyer: Rape and Murder
LAWYER RAPED AND MURDERED Michael Sean Quinn* www.michaelseanquinn.com One Warren Dale Watson, 52, raped and murdered Claudia Miller, 66, on March 5, 2015 in her office in Colorado. She was a family...
EXPERT REPORTS FOR LITIGATION
The Nature of Forensic Expert Reports Michael Sean Quinn* www.michaelseanquinn.com The word "forensic" in this context simply means, "some how involved in litigation." Virtually all expert reports in virtually all litigation are "preliminary" in the sense that...
JUDICIAL INDISCRETION
SEX AND A LOWLY JUDGE Michael Sean Quinn* www.michaelseanquinn.com A Justice of the Peace, the lowest level of judgeship (“JP”), was recently accused of sexual harassment in a federal suit brought in...
LAWYER CRIMES — INSIDER TRADING
“FOR-SHAME”! GO THOU HOME AND STAY PUT THERE MICHAEL SEAN QUINN* www.michaelseanquinn.com Not long ago, a marble salesman (“S”)—nota bene: not a salesman of marbles—did a round of golf with his Massachusetts lawyer friend (“L”), a man in his mid-50s. Somehow the...
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