Guidelines for Lawyer Networking Sites were revised and posted on The Florida Bar’s website on January 10, 2012

By Admin | Published February 24, 2012 | Posted in Florida Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism, joe corsmeier, Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism | Tagged Tags: Attorney advertising rules, Attorney Ethics, corsmeier, Florida Bar, Florida Bar Advertising Rules, Florida Bar discipline, joseph corsmeier, Lawyer advertising rules | Leave a comment

Hello welcome to this edition of the JACPA Ethics Alert blog which will discuss the revisions to the Guidelines for Networking Sites which were posted on The Florida Bar’s website www.floridabar.org on January 10, 2012. The Guidelines for Networking Sites were initially approved by the Florida Bar’s Standing Committee on Advertising after the Supreme Court Read More

Federal 9th Circuit says it won’t remove an Arizona federal prosecutor’s name from its opinion finding that he committed misconduct at trial

By Admin | Published February 22, 2012 | Posted in Florida Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism, joe corsmeier, Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism | Tagged Tags: Attorney Ethics, corsmeier, Florida Bar, Florida Bar discipline, joseph corsmeier | Leave a comment

Hello and welcome to this JACPA Ethics Alert blog which is an update of my January 23, 2012 Ethics Alert and will discuss recent Federal 9th Circuit’s recent amended opinion which refused to remove a prosecutor’s name form an opinion finding that the prosecutor committed misconduct and criticized the U.S. Attorney’s Office for trying. The Read More

Recent Florida Supreme Court opinion increases referee’s recommended discipline from 90 to 91 day suspension

By Admin | Published February 20, 2012 | Posted in Florida Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism, joe corsmeier, Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism | Tagged Tags: Attorney Ethics, corsmeier, Florida Bar, Florida Bar discipline, joseph corsmeier | Leave a comment

Hello and welcome to this Ethics Alert which will discuss the recent (February 16, 2012) Florida Supreme Court opinion which increased a referee’s recommended discipline from a 90 to a 91 day rehabilitative suspension. The case is: The Florida Bar v. Gwynn, —So.3d—, 2012 WL 489234 (Fla. 2012). The referee found that the lawyer represented Read More

Florida Bar’s Board of Governors will review and vote on proposed trust account rule revisions requiring a written trust account plan

By Admin | Published February 16, 2012 | Posted in Florida Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism, joe corsmeier, Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism | Tagged Tags: Attorney Ethics, corsmeier, Florida Bar, Florida Bar discipline, lawyer trust accounts | Leave a comment

Hello welcome to this edition of the JACPA Ethics Alert blog which will discuss the recent Florida Bar News report that The Florida Bar’s Board of Governors will review and potentially vote on proposed amendments to the Bar’s trust account Rules at its March 23, 2012 meeting in Pensacola. The Disciplinary Procedure Committee has been Read More

Florida Bar’s Board of Governors votes to pursue rule amendments to prohibit actors from portraying “authority figures” in advertisements

By Admin | Published February 14, 2012 | Posted in Florida Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism, joe corsmeier, Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism | Tagged Tags: Attorney Ethics, corsmeier, Florida Bar, Florida Bar discipline, joseph corsmeier, lawyer advertising | Leave a comment

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

Illinois Disciplinary Panel Recommends 60-Day Suspension for State Prosecutor Who Pulled Gun on Process Server

By Admin | Published February 13, 2012 | Posted in Florida Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism, joe corsmeier, Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism | Tagged Tags: Attorney Ethics, corsmeier, Florida Bar, Florida Bar discipline, joseph corsmeier | Leave a comment

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

NY lawyer receives 6 month suspension conviction after conviction of misdemeanor larceny for submitting false paid leave request document

By Admin | Published February 9, 2012 | Posted in Florida Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism, joe corsmeier, Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism | Tagged Tags: Attorney Ethics, corsmeier, Florida Bar, Florida Bar discipline, joseph corsmeier | Leave a comment

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

NY lawyer receives public censure (reprimand) for filing lawsuit after statute of limitations expired and falsely notarizing clients’ signatures in Complaint

By Admin | Published February 7, 2012 | Posted in Florida Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism, joe corsmeier, Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism | Leave a comment

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

Wyoming lawyer receives public reprimand for using client to finalize a divorce settlement agreement with represented spouse

By Admin | Published February 2, 2012 | Posted in Florida Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism, joe corsmeier, Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism, Uncategorized | Tagged Tags: Attorney Ethics, corsmeier, Florida Bar discipline, joseph corsmeier | Leave a comment

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

Florida Bar’s Special LRS Committee looks at restricting lawyer’s participation in for-profit lawyer referral services which also make medical referrals

By Admin | Published January 30, 2012 | Posted in Florida Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism, joe corsmeier, Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism | Leave a comment

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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