Not only does it point out the traps, but it explains how to avoid them, using advice written by practicing lawyers and academics who
focus on legal ethics and professional responsibility.
«I've written about 60 or 70
articles on legal ethics, so maybe they've endorsed me because they've read my articles,» he said.
Blog posts feature
thoughts on legal ethics and professionalism, including current disciplinary case law and other professional literature.
She also writes, speaks, and now hosts a podcast
on legal ethics issues, as well as advises lawyers who want to incorporate into their practice new methods of delivering legal services.
While I would be unlikely to do so, in my view a professor could cut conflicts of interest from her curriculum while still providing an outstanding
course on legal ethics.
Our attorneys frequently
speak on legal ethics and professional liability topics at law schools and before professional groups.
Also on the panel are James S. Bolan, a partner with Brecher, Wyner, Simons, Fox & Bolan and a leading
authority on legal ethics and professional responsibility; and Tyson P. Goodridge, founder and principal of the social media education and consulting firm Dialogue.
Its name comes from its focus
on legal ethics in Florida, and that focus derives from Chinaris» tenure as ethics director of the Florida Bar from 1989 to 1997 and later as associate dean for information resources and technology at Florida Coastal School of Law.
He also often consults
on legal ethics matters in domestic, military and international jurisdictions and authors LawOfCriminalDefense.
Stephen Gillers, an expert
on legal ethics at New York University Law School, sees many more missteps in the future, as young people who grew up with Facebook and other social media enter a profession governed by centuries of legal tradition.
Deborah Rhode, a Stanford law professor and leading
scholar on legal ethics, argues in her book, Pro Bono in Principle and in Practice (2005), that lawyers bear an ethical duty to ameliorate «their monopoly's deleterious effects» by doing more pro bono work for those who are disenfranchised.
The Federation is also a cosponsor with the Canadian Bar Association of an annual Ethics Forum — a full - day CPD
event on legal ethics (this year it will be on March 7, 2016 in Toronto — registration is already open) and an enthusiastic supporter of the annual conference put on by the Canadian Association for Legal Ethics.
During the past week, I've had the great honor and pleasure of presenting a four - hour
program on legal ethics and technology to members of the Solo & Small Firm Section of the Florida Bar.
Lawyerist has hundreds of posts
on legal ethics as part of our mission to help small firm lawyers start, manage and grow successful practices.
Lucian is frequent presenter and
commentator on legal ethics topics and his analysis has appeared in numerous publications including the ABA Journal, Tennessee Bar Journal, and Bloomberg.
The program just launched and currently has five CLEs available, which focus
on legal ethics along with tips on individual productivity and law firm efficiency.
It is edited by attorneys William Freivogel, a
consultant on legal ethics and professional liability, and Lucian Pera, who practices in Memphis, Tenn..
What does former Assistant Attorney General Daniel Levin have in common with the lawyers who formulate the bars»
policies on legal ethics?
In the US, we hear the fear that there will be less
emphasis on legal ethics in an ABS, but David refutes that — in fact he calls that fear «rubbish.»
We've noticed the phenomenon here at Legal Blog Watch, and so has legal blogger David Giacalone, who took time out from writing an important
piece on legal ethics to dig deeper into the Savage phenomenon.
There was a fascinating panel at the ABA meeting this
summer on legal ethics in cyberspace, in which one panelist compared the advertising of «cloud» sites (including Google) with their actual terms of service.
Just in time to meet your professionalism CPD requirements for 2015, Hicks Morley invites you to join us for a
roundtable on legal ethics.
Because of our in - depth knowledge of the Virginia court system, our extensive work with the
bar on legal ethics matters and our ability to provide cost - effective legal representation, the Am Law 100's consistently call upon us to represent clients when conflicts arise or to assist as local counsel.
Personal injury law firm Diamond & Diamond has lashed out at organizers of a recent
webinar on legal ethics who referenced the firm in promotional materials...
Thanks to a comment Noel
Semple on the legal ethics email list to which I belong, I was alerted to the fact that the Advocates» Society has filed a factum as an intervener in the appeal by Joseph Groia of the finding against him of misconduct — «incivility,» principally — by the Law Society of Upper Canada.
Proposals from junior scholars and from those
working on legal ethics outside the academy are particularly welcomed.
«There are many recent cases where lawyers have found themselves in trouble because of their use of client confidential information in settings that might surprise people,» says Mary K. Foster, counsel to the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (ARDC) review board and
lecturer on legal ethics at Northwestern University School of Law.
One of the many challenges that this phenomenon poses to traditional
thinking on legal ethics is the effect on the accepted behavior of lawyers who must litigate against such people.
Our founding member Michael Downey has completed graduate study on the legal industry and teaches
courses on legal ethics and law firm practice.
Stephen Gillers, a law professor at New York University and
expert on legal ethics, said Cohen's work on the settlement amounted to «normal behavior» on behalf of a client.