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That quote from Charles Lamb about lawyers once being children leads off article "From Atticus Finch to Harry Potter" (The West Virginia Record). The writer interviews Pat McHenry Sullivan (about whom I blogged here before) on the stress of legal practice and the strain on ethics, and about how

New to the Pennsylvania Association For Justice ranks is Forge Consulting, LLC. Shouldn't it be disturbing to the public and association members that the Pennsylvania Association for Justice appears to have overlooked the business ethics of a "partner" for the mere price of a significant financial contribution?

[August 08 2008] Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: It’s Sort Of Like My Conviction Last Year For Marijuana Possession… Salim Hamdan, ‘Osama’s Driver’, Is Sentenced Aug 8th, 2008 by Da' Buffalo “All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know …Until Now.” In The News: Reality check for

The purported "generous financial contribution" made by a factoring operative to support the marketing efforts of a structured settlement brokerage highlights a potential danger facing tort victims. Factoring companies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars or even millions on television and print

At least 14 New York special districts that provide government services such as fire protection and garbage collection have private lawyers on the payrolls. One lawyer, William Glass, was on the payroll of seven fire districts at once, Newsday reports. Two of them paid him legal fees of…

At least 14 New York special districts that provide government services such as fire protection and garbage collection have private lawyers on the payrolls. One lawyer, William Glass, was on the payroll of seven fire districts at once, Newsday reports. Two of them paid him legal fees of…

Two former state-court judges--one of them, until recently, a chief judge--as well as an attorney and a court administrator have been indicted in Georgia, in a federal case over state judicial corruption.

Concerned that professionals are double-dipping into public payrolls, New York's Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has sent 200 letters throughout the state letting individuals know that their employment arrangements have raised "red flags" to investigators and may be improper.

In a civil theft verdict that could hit two attorneys with some $2 million in damages, a Florida jury found late last month that two longtime associates of a well-known Tampa personal injury attorney essentially stripped the owner of their former firm of much of his practice. The verdict—which was…