Monthly Archives: March 2015

louisiana

LOUISIANA LAWYER’S “SOCIAL MEDIA BLITZ”: First Amendment Right or Misleading &Impermissible Attempt to Influence the Judiciary?

by in First Amendment, News, Professionalism, Social Media, Twitter. Posted March 30, 2015
An attorney, representing a woman alleging sexual abuse by the father in a custody and visitation battle, allegedly waged a social media attack on two judges involved in the case based upon the attorney’s frustration with the lack of progress in the case. louisiana
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Exchanged

Attorney-Client Privilege not Extended to E-Mails Exchanged with Attorney Litigation Funder

by in Attorney Client Privilege, confidentiality, Legal Services, Litigation funders, News, Professionalism. Posted March 26, 2015
On January 30, 2015, in response to a Motion to Compel, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered emails exchanged between defendant’s ex-wife and a litigation funder to be produced after finding that the e-mails are not protected by the attorney-client privilege.
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social media

Florida Supreme Court Suspends Judge 30 Days Without Pay for Facebook Post

by in News, Professionalism. Posted March 24, 2015
On February 25, 2015, the Supreme Court of Florida imposed a thirty-day suspension without pay on a Seminole County Judge for using social media during her husband’s judicial campaign to “seek the assistance of her friends to help her husband correct perceived misstatement by his judicial opponent about [her] pending JQC matter.” Facebook
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Outsourcing

City of New York Opines on the Ethics of Outsourcing

by in Legal Services, Outsourcing, Professionalism. Posted March 21, 2015
In Formal Opinion 2015-1, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York Committee on Professional Ethics answered “a question of first impression in New York” concerning law firms’ use of professional employer organizations (“PEOs”), which “help small businesses provide employment benefits and human resource services to their employees.” Outsourcing
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