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Florida Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism
Hello welcome to this edition of the JACPA Ethics Alert which will discuss the recent (January 27, 2012) vote of The Florida Bar’s Board of Governors (BOG) to pursue revisions to change the Bar Rule amendments pending before the Supreme Court of Florida to prohibit the use of actors to portray “authority figures” such as Read More
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Hello welcome to this edition of the JACPA Ethics Alert blog which will discuss media reports that an Illinois Bar disciplinary panel has recommended that a former elected Illinois State’s Attorney be suspended from practice for 60 days for pulling a gun on a process server. The case is: In the Matter of: Allen W. Read More
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Hello welcome to this edition of the JACPA Ethics Alert which will discuss another New York appellate opinion which suspended a lawyer for 6 months after she pled guilty to one count of petit larceny for falsifying a paid leave request while employed by a New York public school. The case is: In the Matter Read More
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Hello welcome to this edition of the JACPA Ethics Alert which will discuss a New York appellate disciplinary opinion in which a lawyer received a public censure (reprimand) for filing a civil lawsuit after the statute of limitations had expired and falsely notarizing their signatures in the complaint. The case is: In the Matter of Read More
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Hello and Happy Groundhog Day! Welcome to this edition of the JACPA Ethics Alert which will discuss the recent Wyoming Supreme Court disciplinary opinion which approved the Wyoming Board of Professional Responsibility’s Report and Recommendation that a lawyer receive a public censure (reprimand) for using his client to finalize a divorce settlement agreement with the Read More
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Hello and welcome to this JACPA Ethics Alert blog which will discuss the recent report in The Florida Bar News regarding proposals made to The Florida Bar’s Special Committee on Lawyer Referral Services which would restrict Florida lawyers’ participation in for-profit lawyer referral services which make other referrals. At its January 13, 2012 meeting, Read More
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Hello and welcome to this JACPA Ethics Alert blog which will discuss the recent U.S. Supreme Court opinion which held that an Alabama inmate on death row could appeal his conviction even though his lawyers missed the filing deadline because of the departure of his pro bono lawyers from the Sullivan & Cromwell New York Read More
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Hello and welcome to this JACPA Ethics Alert blog which will discuss the recent opinion of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky which held that a law firm associate has no wrongful discharge claim against the Kentucky office of Winters & Yonker for allegedly firing him for refusing to take part Read More
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Hello and welcome to this JACPA Ethics Alert blog which will discuss two lawyer advertising issues considered the Florida Bar’s Board of Governors (BOG) at its December 2011 meeting as reported in the January 15, 2012 issue of The Florida Bar News. According to this report, the BOG discussed two advertising issues during an executive Read More
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Hello and welcome to this JACPA Ethics Alert which will discuss recent Nebraska Supreme Court opinion which held that a lawyer who signs a settlement agreement under the legend, “Agreed to in Form & Substance,” was not liable for breach of the payment terms because the language and circumstances surrounding the agreement did not indicate Read More
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