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• Lawyer With ‘Couch of Restitution’ Disciplined in Michigan

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 632
  Disciplinary authorities have sanctioned a Michigan attorney by suspending his license to practice for 180 days following a string of sensational allegations, including that he offered clients a "couch of restitution" to pay of their legal fees. An opinion released Nov. 23 by Michigans Attorney Discipline Board (PDF), ...
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• Fed Up Court Admin Warns Sparring Lawyers She’ll Hit Her ‘Panic Button’

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 632
  A court administrator in Western Washington is so fed up with the tenor of the verbal sparring between lawyers that shes threatening to call police next time it happens in her presence. Lewis County Superior Court Administrator Susie Parker sent an e-mail to local attorneys telling them she would contact law ...
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• Lawyer Ponies Up Charity Money In Lieu Of Contempt Finding for Using Profanity in Court

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 632
  An Austin defense lawyer, who in September was slapped with a contempt of court order with the threat of jail time because he used profanity in court, has struck a deal with the judge. Instead of a contempt finding, $1,250 fine and 10 days in jail, Edmund "Skip" Davis will contribute to two charities, the Austin ...
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• Kansas Ethics Opinion Requires Disclosure on Ghostwritten Pleadings

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 632
  Lawyers who ghostwrite court documents for clients seeking to hold down legal costs will have to disclose their role in the drafting, according to a Kansas legal ethics opinion. The economic downturn is spurring more penny-pinching clients to ask lawyers to handle only parts of their representation—part of the trend ...
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• Unbundled Legal Services Permitted In Kansas

  
  The Untethered Lawyer — Authority: 110
  On November 24, 2009 the Kansas Bar Association released Legal Ethics Opinion No. 09-01.  The opinion was prompted by a request from a Kansas attorney as to (a) whether the Kansas Ethics Advisory Opinion Committee approved the determination in ABA Formal Ethics Opinion 07-446 and (b) concerning the extent to which, ...
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• Lawyer Scott Rothstein Arrested in Suspected $1B Ponzi Scheme

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 632
  High-flying South Florida lawyer Scott Rothstein has been arrested on racketeering charges in a suspected $1 billion Ponzi Scheme. FBI agents arrested Rothstein this morning, the Miami Herald reports. The story says he is likely to plead guilty soon after he is taken into custody. He is expected to be charged with ...
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• So Where’s That OPR Report?

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  Less than two weeks ago, Attorney General Eric Holder testified that the long-awaited report on the ethics of Bush-era Justice Department lawyers who sanctioned torture and other abuses would be released by the end of November. So where is it? The report, prepared by the Justice Department’s Office of ...
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• Courthouse Abuzz Over DA’s Blanket Boycott of Longtime Judge

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 632
  Since being appointed to the state-court bench in 1995, a Southern California judge has presided over numerous high-profile cases and served in a series of leading administrative roles. But San Diego Superior Court Judge John Einhorn isnt as busy as he was on the criminal side, thanks to a blanket boycott by the local ...
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• Not Sending Clients Copy of Retainer a Costly Mistake for Law Firm

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 632
  Delay in providing clients with a full copy of the applicable retainer agreement for their matter has cost a New Jersey law firm a six-figure sum. Reversing an earlier award of $163,000 to Alpert Butler & Weiss for unpaid legal fees and the cost of pursuing their collection action, a state appeals court nixed the ...
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• Clean & Sober for 6 Years, Lawyer Starts New Solo Practice

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 632
  Although he pleaded guilty in 1992 to misdemeanor cocaine use two years earlier, Terry Nolan didnt realize he had a substance abuse problem. He stopped drinking, for good, in 1998, the Michigan defense attorney tells the Muskegon Chronicle. But, fueled with the funds brought in by his successful law practice, he kept ...
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• Practice Pitfalls

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 632
  Note: Register for this months CLE, "Ethics Pitfalls for Practitioners," from 1-2 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Dec. 16.
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• Court Stands Firm: Law License Denied Because of Unpaid Student Loans

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 632
  A law graduate denied bar admission because of unpaid student loans saw another setback earlier this month, when a New York appeals court refused to reconsider its decision in the case. On Nov. 19, the court refused Robert Bowman’s motion for reconsideration, the New York Times reports. Bowman’s student debt, ...
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• DOJ Drops All Money-Laundering Charges Against Miami Lawyer

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 632
  Federal prosecutors asked Wednesday to dismiss the drug money-laundering case against Miami criminal defense lawyer Ben Kuehne. "I have had throughout a deep and abiding belief that things would turn out well in the end, Kuehne said in a statement provided to the Miami Herald. "However, I did not know the end result ...
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• Judge Cites Tough ‘New Era’ in Conflicts Cases as She Sentences Ex-DOJ Lawyer

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 632
  Former Justice Department lawyer Robert Coughlin cried in court Tuesday as he apologized to a judge for accepting gifts from a lobbyist friend while working on legislative affairs in the Justice Department. Coughlin could have been sentenced to six months in jail. Instead he was sentenced to a month in a halfway house ...
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• Florida Bar Investigating Four Lawyers from Rothstein Firm

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 632
  The Florida Bar is investigating four lawyers from the dissolved South Florida firm Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler amid an investigation into an alleged $1 billion Ponzi scheme by name partner Scott Rothstein. Rothstein has voluntarily surrendered his law license. Now the bar is investigating four other RRA lawyers, ...
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• ACLU Sues Ky. Bar, Claims Inquiry Violated Lawyer’s Free Speech Rights

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 632
  The ACLU of Kentucky has sued the state bar for investigating a lawyer because of a letter he wrote criticizing a legislative ethics commission. The ACLU contends the state bar violated the free speech rights of lawyer John Berry, the Louisville Courier-Journal reports. Berry had alleged in a letter that a legislative ...
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• Court Fines Insurer & Lawyer for Appealing Duty to Defend

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 632
  An insurance company that not only refused its contractual duty to defend a policyholder but appealed a trial courts ruling that the duty to defend was not a close case has been hit with a $2,500 sanction by a Georgia appellate court. And Atlanta attorney Dennis Brown of Buckley Brown was penalized $2,500, too, for ...
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• Indicted Defense Lawyer Makes Unusual Filing in Civil SEC Case

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 632
  A 56-year-old Georgia securities law practitioner and another man have been criminally charged in federal court in North Carolina concerning an alleged interstate investment fraud. But that shouldnt prevent defense lawyer Gregory Bartko from continuing to represent a client in a claimed $53 million civil fraud case in ...
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• Judge Warns Lawyers for Blackwater Defendants About Single Spacing

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 632
  A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has put lawyers for five Blackwater Worldwide contractors on notice that their failure to double space won’t be tolerated. U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina wrote in a short notice (PDF) filed on Monday that the lawyers submitted a legal memorandum in single-space type, ...
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• Man Wrongly Jailed for Murder Helps Make Case for Actual Innocence Test

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 632
  A little-noticed opinion by a New York judge earlier this month didnt simply free Fernando Bermudez after 18 years in prison in a murder case. It found that he didnt commit the crime. By doing so, Manhattan Supreme Court John Cataldo lent further weight to growing concern that not simply new evidence or constitutional ...
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