Professional Responsibility Blog

Long time readers of this blog know that I have been following the process of revision of the rules in California.  See here and here , for...

Last December I reported that the North Carolina Bar and Legal Zoom reached a consent agreement which suspended the litigation between them...

What should you do when you are co-counsel on a case or in a deal, and you become aware that the other lawyer has made an error?  A new eth...

Just a few weeks ago the Professional Responsibility Board of the Supreme Court of Ohio issued an advisory opinion on whether it is ethical ...

According to a story in ABC news, available here , the judge overseeing the trial of a police officer charged with murder in the death of F...

A recent New York State Bar Association Ethics Opinion (available here ) addresses whether a lawyer must obtain the consent of opposing coun...

In a recent Op-ed piece, the NY Times is arguing that because prosecutors are almost never held accountable for misconduct, even when it res...

Back in February, 2015 I posted a story about an Illinois appellate court's opinion on whether an attorney has a duty to disclose the de...

The Legal Talk Network has just posted a bunch of new podcasts, most of them related to "technology" and innovation.  Here is a li...

Ron Rotunda's most recent column at Verdict   is about prosecutors who force defendants to contribute to charity. His conclusion:  ...

About two weeks ago, the Governor of Puerto Rico signed into law a bill that creates a 3 year statute of limitations for disciplinary proce...

A couple of days ago, I commented on a news story about possible perjury by prosecutors’ witnesses and complained about the lack of action ...

The ABA Journal has a story today on how courts are not doing much about a little kept secret in Chicago courts:  that police officers some...

Back in February I wrote a comment on the first ethics opinion of the year by the Ohio Board on Professional Conduct in which I argued the ...

Last year I posted a link to a podcast on LegalZoom with its CEO, John Suh (see here ).  The Legal Talk Network has a new one here .  You ca...

EThe Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility of the ABA recently issued a new ethics opinion reviewing the details on s...

Last year, the Ethics Committee of the Indiana Bar Association issued an opinion on whether an attorney has to comply with the state's m...

Professor Ronald Rotunda's most recent column is available here .

Over at My Shingle (a blog I recommend, by the way), Carolyn Elefant discusses whether it is ethical for a law firm to pay a client's t...

A few days ago, Avvo announced it has started yet another new law practice related service:  Avvo Legal Forms , which offers free legal form...

Today the US Supreme Court announced its decision in an important case involving the right to an attorney.  As explained in a story in Slate...

Back in August of last year, I posted a podcast on artificial intelligence and the practice of law (see here ).  My intro was as follows:  ...

A few years ago, I commented on judges who impose sentencing by creating their own type of punishment, like public shaming, or ordering some...

Last month, the Board of Professional Conduct of the Ohio Supreme Court released an advisory ethics opinion discussing the propriety of fla...

There has been a lot of discussion on whether lawyers meet their duty of competence when it comes to "technology."  For some of my...

(You may remember this story from October 2015; skip to the bottom for the latest update.) I have often criticized jurisdictions that impo...

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in a summary disposition that a death-row inmate’s due-process rights were violated when the prosecution fa...

Over the past couple of years many jurisdictions have issued opinions on whether flat fees can be non-refundable and the result of these opi...

 The ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility recently issued a new opinion which provides some guidance to lawyers ...

Lawyerist and The American Lawyer are reporting that the ABA has abandoned its partnership with Rocket Lawyer.  This is an embarrassing tur...

Legal Ethics in Motion is reporting that the Association of the Bar of the City of New York Committee on Professional Ethics'  Formal ...

In a many jurisdictions, a convicted criminal defendant who wants to recover for malpractice against his or her former lawyer has to obtain ...

Long time readers of this blog know I often complain about the fact that courts do not seem to take prosecutorial misconduct too seriously. ...

Back in December I reported that the ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services had issued its final Resolution and Report on Regulator...

The United States District Court for the District of Columbia has released a proposed rule which would codify the government’s discovery obl...

A few days ago, I posted a long comment expressing my concern over the new Avvo Legal Services, which it describes as an online legal serv...

I am updating this story with a new note (with links) about a recent opinion from Philadelphia at the end .   Back in March of last year I...

Some states require an “affidavit of merit” in order for a plaintiff to bring a malpractice claim.  The blog Professional Liability Matters...

The California Bar's Ethics Committee recently issued an opinion on whether an attorney negotiating for a client can engage in some form...

Avvo, the somewhat controversial ( here and here ) online rating company, has evolved into what it calls an online legal services marketpla...