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Ethics Concerns Scuttle Massachussetts Clerkship Plan

Ethics Concerns Scuttle Massachussetts Clerkship Plan

It seemed like a match made in heaven – thanks to a struggling economy, Massachusetts was unable to fill all of the judicial clerkships for the year, and there is…

ABA Offers Free Suicide Prevention Info

With two recent attorney suicides, and one from December just now announced, all probably spurred to the economic downturn, the American Bar Association is making available free information about legal…

Former Congressman Joins K & L Gates in DC

Former Congressman Joins K & L Gates in DC

One month after retiring from a 20-year stint in Congress, former Representative James Walsh has begun work as a government affairs counselor for the DC office of K&L Gates. Walsh…

Former Dreier Partners Could Face Liability

The New York Law Journal has consulted with experts, and finds that lawyers who fled Dreier LLP as soon as they heard that founder Marc Dreier was arrested and indicted…

Lawyer Forgot She Was Suspended, Argued Before CA Supreme Court

Lawyer Forgot She Was Suspended, Argued Before CA Supreme Court

The California Supreme Court has removed Cynthia Thomas from the death penalty case of Charles Moore, and referred her to the State Bar for disciplinary proceedings. The court says Thomas…

Government Lawyer Uses US Marshals as Chauffeurs to Sports Events

Government Lawyer Uses US Marshals as Chauffeurs to Sports Events

Joseph Band, who was a lawyer in the US Marshals Service’s Office of the General Counsel, enlisted deputy marshals to ferry him and others, including famous broadcasters, to and from sporting events in…

Laptops Good for Law Students

From the 2008 Law School Survey of Student Engagement (LSSSE) [PDF], published by the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University at Bloomington: while many law schools (and other post-secondary schools)…

Paralegal Impersonated Attorney in Family Court

Paralegal Impersonated Attorney in Family Court

A lawyer who sent his paralegal to a court hearing where she advocated for a client should be censured, a Disciplinary Review Board has ruled. Both the District VIII Ethics Committee and…