/legalethics?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Legal Ethics Copyright 2025 ¼«ËÙÈü³µ. en-US Mon, 16 Jun 2025 21:31:00 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2353919?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2353919 A New York federal judge has vacated his order sanctioning an investor in telecommunications infrastructure firm Continental Towers LATAM Holdings Ltd. for ignoring arbitral awards issued in a bitter, yearslong dispute over control of the company, saying the man wasn't properly served. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 20:48:29 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2353362?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2353362 A Canadian securities attorney will pay over $323,000 to resolve U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that he drafted and executed sham consulting agreements at the heart of a scheme to conceal pay-for-play promotion of two so-called Regulation A offerings. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:57:15 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2354043?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2354043 A Mumbai-based business that offers trademark registration services was blocked by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office from submitting any more trademark documents, after an investigation found it forged counsel signatures. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:48:59 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2353854?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2353854 The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday ruled unanimously that a plaintiff may still have probable cause in a malicious prosecution case even if they were unable to win in the original case at summary judgment. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:48:14 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2353858?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2353858 The Florida Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether a so-called blindfolded jury selection method was fair to a man serving a life sentence for a murder conviction. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:43:30 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2353711?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2353711 The Pennsylvania Superior Court held in a precedential ruling that the negligence of a winery's former counsel in failing to communicate with the winery during litigation over operating in a neighborhood isn't a good enough reason to reverse an order shutting it down. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:40:58 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2353706?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2353706 A Connecticut trial court judge acted within his power to consider and then add three criminal contempt sentences to a murder convict's prison term after the defendant hurled a series of racial and profane attacks at the court when a habeas corpus hearing concluded, the state's highest court ruled Monday. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:28:49 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2353675?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2353675 The former attorney of a onetime Georgia county auditor cannot recover attorney fees from her earlier representation of the auditor in a whistleblower suit, a federal judge has ruled, finding she failed to prove she was prevented from fully and fairly litigating her case. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:27:36 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2353840?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2353840 A former general counsel for a New Jersey public agency previously fined for ethics breaches has now been censured, with the state Supreme Court issuing the discipline after finding he operated a private law practice out of his office at the agency. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:19:23 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2353361?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2353361 A Berkshire Hathaway unit can't use misdirection to duck a negligence suit claiming the insurer's failure to defend a negligence lawsuit against a Georgia personal injury law firm led to a $2.6 million default judgment against the firm, according to a recent filing in Georgia federal court. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:10:30 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2353662?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2353662 A panel of the California State Bar Court's Review Department has affirmed the March 2024 recommended disbarment of President Donald Trump's former attorney, John Eastman, over attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:37:41 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2353963?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2353963 A New York man admitted Monday that he posed as a lawyer to steal over $290,000 from people who thought he was doing class action, discrimination and other legal work, copping to larceny and fraud charges in state court. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:23:04 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2353718?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2353718 The former owner of a North Carolina concrete company is seeking attorney fees after defeating a buyer's fraud suit in a rare midtrial victory, saying her opponent should have to cover her legal costs for bringing claims to trial that were both "frivolous" and "malicious." Mon, 16 Jun 2025 14:34:43 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2353673?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2353673 A judge in Broward County, Florida, pushed back on ethics charges accusing her of publicly sharing a fabricated recording of a chief judge disparaging another judge in her 2024 election campaign, saying her actions did not violate the Code of Judicial Conduct. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 14:34:22 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2353638?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2353638 In a formal ethics opinion this month, the State Bar of Texas said nondisparagement clauses dealing with the practice of law cannot apply to lawyers licensed in the state, but attorneys could be subject to provisions involving their personal speech. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 21:24:11 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2353084?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2353084 Bayer has beat a negligence lawsuit filed by a woman who claims its Mirena IUD perforated her uterus and migrated after the patient failed to oppose the company's motion to dismiss, a Washington federal judge ruled. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 20:00:04 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2353507?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2353507 Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP has withdrawn as counsel for the founder of Binance amid an $8.1 million lawsuit against him, telling a Massachusetts federal judge that the former cryptocurrency exchange executive has breached an agreement with the law firm and moved for arbitration against it. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:19:11 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2353391?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2353391 The Ninth Circuit on Friday declined to revive an attorney's claims alleging the California State Bar violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by not granting extra time to respond to disciplinary action based on outstanding debt, finding the bar, as an arm of the state, is entitled to sovereign immunity. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:00:30 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2349545?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2349545 To get around bans in North Carolina and many other states, debt relief companies set up facade law firms — companies that are law firms in name only, with a tiny number of lawyers nominally serving thousands of clients, consumer advocates and regulators say. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 18:12:44 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2352854?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2352854 The Washington State Supreme Court has suspended an Evergreen state attorney's legal license, at the state bar association's request, for allegedly stalling disciplinary investigations into her work representing student families in two federal lawsuits against school districts.