/legalethics?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Legal Ethics Copyright 2025 极速赛车. en-US Fri, 01 Aug 2025 22:58:11 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2371280?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2371280 In this special edition of Wheeling & Appealing, we're spotlighting key decisions and developments in every circuit court during the first half of 2025, while also previewing August's most intriguing oral arguments, including a remarkably "fierce" showdown between Edible Arrangements and 1-800-Flowers with millions of dollars in attorney fees on the line. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 22:50:10 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2372596?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2372596 In this month's review of defamation fights, 极速赛车 reviews U.S. President Donald Trump's suit against the Wall Street Journal over its reporting on his connections to deceased financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as well as a Second Circuit decision about the potential unsealing of documents in a since-settled, Epstein-related defamation suit. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 22:19:01 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2372559?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2372559 If Alina Habba was illegally appointed acting U.S. attorney in New Jersey, a pair of defendants in a drug trafficking case are not entitled to dismissal of the indictment, but it "appears appropriate" that Habba would be barred from prosecuting them, a federal judge ruled Friday. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 21:18:20 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2371692?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2371692 Minority shareholders in telecommunications infrastructure firm Continental Towers LATAM Holding say they are not the ones stopping an arbitral award from being enforced, and have tried to comply with the court's orders but are "caught in the cross-hairs of a personal vendetta." Fri, 01 Aug 2025 20:03:46 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2372041?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2372041 In the latest legal skirmish between former law partners Andrew Garza and Ryan McKeen following the dissolution of Connecticut Trial Firm LLC, Garza's new firm on Friday asked a Connecticut state court to pause unfair trade practices claims brought against it by McKeen's new firm, arguing that the complaint is an attempt to circumvent arbitration stays. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:40:53 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2372032?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2372032 A Massachusetts appeals court has determined that a trial court judge abused her discretion in dismissing an assault and battery case with prejudice as the result of a sanction on the prosecution for dragging its feet in discovery. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:02:35 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2372056?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2372056 A New York lawyer is seeking a quick win on malpractice claims brought in Florida federal court by a former client who says she improperly advised him to sign a consent decree with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that resulted in a $12.1 million disgorgement judgment, arguing the client's subsequent guilty plea defeats the claims. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:58:13 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2372448?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2372448 A New York state appeals court has declared unconstitutional a statute that mandates a judge forfeit $1,000 to a plaintiff if the judge refuses to issue a writ of habeas corpus. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:56:27 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2367457?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2367457 After the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down the practice of nationwide injunctions in Trump v. Casa, Section 1983 civil rights suits can provide a better pathway to hold the government accountable 鈥� but this will require reforms to qualified immunity, says Marc Levin at the Council on Criminal Justice. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:41:16 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2369830?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2369830 Five years after a disgruntled litigant killed a New Jersey federal judge's son at their home, experts and judges disagree over whether the judicial privacy laws enacted following the shooting are doing much to protect jurists, while political leaders' heated rhetoric makes for an even more dangerous landscape for judges. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:30:35 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2372333?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2372333 An intellectual property lawyer in North Carolina told the state's top court that his ex-wife isn't entitled to half the value of his law firm in their divorce, arguing that whatever he earns from the firm's goodwill in the future can't be divvied up as part of the marital estate. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:22:29 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2372278?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2372278 Pharmacy benefit manager OptumRx has moved to disqualify Motley Rice LLC from representing the state of Utah in an opioid crisis lawsuit, claiming the firm clearly violated ethical rules by investigating OptumRx on behalf of government entities, then suing OptumRx in a private capacity. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:59:39 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2371809?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2371809 The law firms Neubert Pepe & Monteith PC and Cuddy & Feder LLP told a Connecticut state court they should not have to face a lawsuit from a couple who claim they misused the judicial system to delay payouts from a property owner, arguing that the complaint does not sufficiently allege they engaged in vexatious litigation. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:48:26 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2372179?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2372179 The majority of a Washington, D.C., lawyer ethics panel has called for the disbarment of Jeffrey Clark, a White House official and ally of President Donald Trump, over his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:43:34 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2372410?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2372410 A former Webster Bank general counsel who pled guilty to bank fraud must pay by Oct. 1 the remaining $2.5 million he owes in restitution, a federal judge has ruled, finding that the man's bank accounts and securities are enough to cover the difference. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:33:55 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2372151?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2372151 A Tennessee federal judge has decided not to issue sanctions against high-profile civil rights lawyers Ben Crump and Antonio Romanucci over a press release that claimed a civil lawsuit against the city over the police beating death of Tyre Nichols would not bankrupt the Memphis government because the city's insurance would foot the bill. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:14:56 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2369175?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2369175 The new dark comedy film 鈥淥h, Hi!鈥� 鈥� depicting a romantic vacation that turns into an inadvertent kidnapping 鈥� should remind criminal practitioners to always reread the statute to avoid assumptions, meet their ethical duties and finesse their trial strategy, says Veronica Finkelstein at Wilmington University School of Law. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 23:23:01 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2371835?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2371835 A legal watchdog group Thursday lodged bar complaints against a trio of U.S. Department of Justice lawyers, accusing them of making misleading and false statements in court filings while defending the Trump administration in litigation over its attempt to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 22:17:31 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2371860?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2371860 A California state judge added $195 million in exemplary damages to a $605 million trade secrets verdict against oil giant Phillips 66 following its "abusive behavior" toward startup and onetime acquisition target Propel Fuels. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 20:28:02 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2371844?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2371844 Tyson Foods urged an Illinois federal judge on Thursday to reject Burford Capital's bid to ditch allegations聽that the litigation funder improperly thwarted a near-final price-fixing settlement with Sysco Corp., arguing the counterclaim "lays bare" Burford's systematic effort to obtain a greater investment return.