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ABA’S Full House: 2019 Annual Meeting in San francisco Results in Mass Resolution Adoption

by in Advertising Rules, Advisory Opinion, Attorney Client Relationship, Attorneys Fees, Ethics Opinion, Featured, Marijuana, News, Professionalism, Technology. Posted February 22, 2021
On On August 8, 2019, the American Bar Association (“ABA”) held its annual meeting, during which the ABA House of Delegates met with an outlook of nearly 60 resolutions to be decided upon. After two days of deliberation, which included revising and amending the proposed resolutions, 50 were adopted.
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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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Supreme

The Unappealing Turn of Events – Part II: Supreme Court holds defense lawyer’s refusal to file requested appeal constitutes ineffective assistance, despite defendant’s appeal waiver

by in Attorney Client Relationship, Featured, ineffective assistance of counsel, Rules of Professional Conduct. Posted March 8, 2019
Update: The matter of Garza v. Idaho first appeared on this blog on January 7, 2019. On October 30, 2018, The United States Supreme Court heard arguments to decide whether a criminal defendant’s counsel is presumptively ineffective if counsel declines to file an appeal of a conviction because the defendant already waived the right to appeal in his plea.
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Withdraws

New York State Bar Withdraws Proposal for ABA Best Practices for Online Legal Document Providers

by in Attorney Client Relationship, Featured, Legal Services, online legal document providers, Outsourcing, Rules of Professional Conduct, Technology. Posted February 20, 2019
The online legal services market is a worldwide, multi-billion dollar (and growing) industry, with clients increasingly turning to the Internet—rather than an attorney—for their legal needs. Withdraws
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Recording

Recording Your Clients Without Their Consent May Be Illegal As Well As Unethical

by in Attorney Client Relationship, confidentiality, Conflict of Interest, Featured, First Amendment, Professionalism, recording your client, Rules of Professional Conduct. Posted February 6, 2019
In the wake of the discovery that Michael Cohen had covertly taped a conversation between himself and Donald Trump, the following question has been raised: is it ever permissible to record a conversation with a client without obtaining his or her consent? Recording
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