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West Virginia Supreme Court rejects defenses and mitigation of lawyer who beat and “seriously injured” a “defenseless client” with a wooden baseball bat and annuls his license

Hello everyone and welcome to this Ethics Alert blog which will discuss recent West Virginia Appeals Court opinion disbarring a lawyer for beating a defenseless client with a baseball bat.  The case is Lawyer Disciplinary Bd. v. Joshua Robinson, W. Va., No. 35549 (10/25/12).  The opinion is at: https://op.bna.com/mopc.nsf/id/kswn-8znlbs/$File/35549.pdf. The West Virginia Supreme Court of Read More

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Ohio lawyer receives 1 year suspension for disclosing attorney/client confidential information to former Ohio State University head football coach Jim Tressel

Hello everyone and welcome to this Ethics Alert blog which will discuss recent Ohio Supreme Court opinion suspending a lawyer for 1 year for disclosing confidential information to former Ohio State University head coach Jim Tressel.  The case is Disciplinary Counsel v. Cicero, Slip Opinion No. 2012-Ohio-5457 (November 28, 2012).  The opinion is here: https://www.sconet.state.oh.us/ROD/docs/pdf/0/2012/2012-Ohio-5457.pdf According Read More

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Louisiana lawyer permanently disbarred for practicing law as in house counsel for WorldCom/Verizon after his disbarment

Hello everyone and welcome to this Ethics Alert blog which will discuss the recent Louisiana Supreme Court opinion which permanently disbarred a lawyer who had been disbarred in Louisiana but worked as in house counsel for WorldCom after he was disbarred.  The case is In re: James David Turnage, No. 12-B-2008 (November 16, 2012).  The opinion Read More

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Ohio lawyer receives stayed 6 month suspension for providing his electronic signature and attorney-registration number to a Florida law firm and failing to supervise the firm’s activities

Hello everyone and welcome to this Ethics Alert blog which will discuss the recent Ohio Supreme Court disciplinary opinion imposing a 6 month stayed suspension of a lawyer who provided his Ohio attorney-registration number and electronic attorney signature to a Florida based corporation and failed to supervise the firm’s activities.  The case is Disciplinary Counsel v. Lorenzon, Read More

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