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Second Circuit Finds New York’s In-state Office Requirement Constitutional
On April 22, 2016, the Second Circuit decided SCHOENEFELD v. SCHNEIDERMAN, et. al. In a 2-1 decision, the Second Circuit reversed the district court and remanded the case with instructions to the...
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California Continues its Work to Update its Ethics Rules (and switch to the...
California’s Second Commission for the Revision of the Rules of Professional Conduct continues its work to update California’s ethics rules (and switch to the ABA Model Rules format). The Commission’s...
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New DC Data & Recommendations About Global Practice
In May 2016, the DC Bar issued the Interim Report of its Global Legal Practice Task Force. In June 2016, the Board of Governors of the DC Bar approved the report’s recommendations. As the DC press...
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5 Year Prison Term for a Lawyer Using his IOLTA Account to Launder Money
The ABA Journal and Law.com have reported the story of a San Diego lawyer who was sentenced to five years in prison for using his IOLTA account to facilitate money-laundering activities. In his plea...
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Canadian Regulator Adopts a Cap on Referral Fees
On April 27, 2017, the Law Society of Upper Canada, which is the body that regulates lawyers in Canada’s largest province of Ontario, approved a set of recommendations that cap lawyer referral fees....
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Sample Engagement Letters from ACTEC
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) has released the third edition of its book with sample engagement letters: Engagement Letters A Guide for Practitioners (3rd ed. 2017). It is...
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Mayer Brown’s $1.6 Billion Malpractice Case is useful to teach “Who is the...
The ABA Journal has a nice summary of the recent Seventh Circuit decision affirming the lower court’s dismissal of the malpractice lawsuit against Mayer Brown, which represented General Motors, for the...
View ArticleProposed Changes to DC Bar Admission Rules
The DC Court of Appeals is seeking comments on whether it should “amend D.C. App. R. 46 relating to admission of graduates of non-accredited law schools.” The proposed changes affect the rule that...
View ArticleEarly Career Scholarship for Dec. 2018 Melbourne Int’l Legal Ethics Conference
Thanks to the generosity of Prof. Deborah Rhode from Stanford, the International Association of Legal Ethics (IAOLE) has funds that likely will be used to fund an early career scholar’s attendance at...
View ArticleDec. 28, 2018 Deadline for FASPE 2 week Fellowship for students & early...
In light of recent events, this announcement seems particularly timely: FASPE (Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics) is now accepting applications for its 2019 Law program....
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