Judges and Attorneys Should Think Twice Before Clicking “Add Friend”
The issue of judges in social media has generated significant talk amongst the legal ethics community in recent years.
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Officials turn attention to law firms to recover money lost in Texas Ponzi scheme
In the past week, two major law firms have found themselves entangled in bankruptcy and receivership proceedings stemming from the aftermath of the R. Allen Stanford Ponzi scheme. Officials
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To Friend or Not to Friend . . .
“Where the presiding judge in a criminal case has accepted the prosecutor assigned to the case as a Facebook “friend,” would a reasonably prudent person fear that he could not get a fair and impartial trial, so that the defendant’s motion for disqualification should be granted?”
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Jurors Getting “Friendly” on Facebook
A recent case from the Supreme Court of Kentucky provides insight into how courts view social media and the legal process. Jurors
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Political Agenda Triggering the Misuse of Federal Funds or Attorney-Client Privilege? California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc. refuses to turn over its client files.
In 2005, the Inspector General for Legal Services Corp (“LSC”) investigated an anonymous complaint alleging that California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc.(“CRLA”) misused its grant money by focusing on “impact work” to advance a social and political agenda.
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“Waste Not, Want Not?”
It costs a heap of money to find all those cases and articles for that one brilliant lawyer’s argument! For many firms and legal services organizations, using Westlaw™ and LexisNexis® is too expensive to comprehend. Waste
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LinkedIn Endorsements…An Ethical Dilemma?
Andrew Perlman over at Legal Ethics Forum poses this query and initiates a lively discussion as to whether a LinkedIn endorsement creates an issue under the attorney advertising rules as being potentially misleading. See his post and the comments here.
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