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“Chatting” or Texting with Clients During Their Testimony Led 2 Attorneys to No More Chatting or Texting with Any Clients

by in Attorney Mistake, Attorney Suspension, discipline, legal ethics, Technology, texting. Posted March 3, 2022
Arizona Attorney Suspended for Coaching Client During Virtual Cross-Examination Florida Attorney Suspended for Texting Client During a Telephonic Deposition By Jan L. Jacobowitz and Lauren Maier Chatting, texting, and suspensions, Oh My! There seems to be no number of times that is too many to remind lawyers that the legal ethics rules continue to apply ...
Tags Fairness to Opposing Counsel Technology and Competence
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Suspension

A Series of Unfortunate Events: Giuliani’s New York Law License Suspension

by in Attorney Suspension. Posted July 16, 2021
Giuliani Interim Suspension I did not rush out of the gate to discuss the extremely well publicized (See, for example, NPR, CNN, NYT, and Forbes) interim suspension of Rudy Giuliani’s New York law license or the reciprocal interim suspension imposed the District of Columbia. There has been so much coverage that I found it interesting ...
Tags First Amendment Lawyer Interim Suspension
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Social Media

More Social Media Trouble in the Legal Profession: South Carolina Orders 6 Month Suspension for Incendiary Facebook Posts

by in Attorney Suspension, Social Media. Posted July 14, 2021
Social media update… A(nother) lawyer recently made the news for a suspension based on controversial Facebook posts. The South Carolina Supreme Court decision suspending the lawyer for six months based upon twelve offensive posts on Facebook found that the lawyer’s conduct brought the legal profession into disrepute and violated both the letter and spirit of ...
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Slipping

Slipping and Falling into Discipline: New York Attorney Suspended from Practicing Law

by in Attorney Suspension, duty of diligence, legal ethics, personal injury, Uncategorized. Posted December 17, 2019
A New York attorney was recently suspended from practicing law for two years after neglecting to follow up on a personal injury case. Slipping In April of 2012, the attorney was retained in a personal injury action resulting from a slip and fall accident. Although he commenced the action in May of 2013 and participated in a pre-trial conference in July of 2015, after which the matter was certified ready for trial, the attorney ...
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Attacks

Florida Lawyer’s Social Media Attacks Result in an Emergency Suspension of her License

by in Attorney Suspension, Featured, First Amendment, Professionalism, Rules of Professional Conduct, Social Media. Posted April 15, 2019
The Florida Bar recently obtained the emergency suspension of attorney, Ashley Ann Krapacs, for using social media to launch “an attack of massive and continuous proportions” against two Fort Lauderdale attorneys, Russell Williams and Nisha Bacchus. Attacks
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