/legalethics?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Legal Ethics Copyright 2025 Â鶹´«Ã½. en-US Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:04:33 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2350564?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2350564 A Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP partner's onetime landlord asked for a pretrial victory in a federal feud with his former tenants, telling a Connecticut court Friday he did not participate in his ex-attorney's leak of unflattering allegations about A. Mark Getachew and his wife to the New York Post. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 18:09:06 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2350352?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2350352 The acting director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office revived Longhorn Vaccines & Diagnostics LLC patent claims on Thursday that her predecessor had invalidated to punish Longhorn for misconduct. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 17:23:28 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2350272?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2350272 Counsel representing two female teachers should receive nearly $218,000 in costs following a jury trial in which the workers were awarded $165,000 over claims that a Pennsylvania school district paid them less than men, the teachers told a federal court. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:34:54 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2350328?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2350328 A former senior in-house counsel for Wells Fargo Advisors won his bid to make the bank arbitrate claims he absconded with confidential information and coordinated a mass resignation of other staff when he left to work at a competing advisory firm. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:30:36 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2350567?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2350567 Many current state bar character and fitness tests fail to identify bad actors, and at the same time, certain aspects of the queries can hurt efforts to increase diversity in the profession, according to panelists at the American Bar Association's 2025 Virtual Equity Summit on Friday. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:27:30 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2350254?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2350254 The State Bar of California's board of trustees voted to approve a $185,000 contract with a nonprofit to review "exam scoring irregularities and testing accommodations" from its fraught February 2025 bar exam. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:12:43 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2350532?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2350532 New Jersey-based Porzio Bromberg & Newman PC asked a Louisiana federal judge to dismiss a doctor's suit accusing the firm of driving him into bankruptcy, arguing that there's no jurisdiction that would justify continued litigation in the state. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:12:17 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2350394?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2350394 Texas' four-year time limit on attorney discipline applies to "reciprocal" discipline cases, in which a lawyer is sanctioned in Texas after being similarly sanctioned in another state, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:04:00 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2342370?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2342370 As the administration targets diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and law firms consider pulling back from their programs, lawyers who care about racial equity and justice can employ four strategies to create microspaces of justice, which can then be parlayed into drivers of transformational change, says Susan Sturm at Columbia Â鶹´«Ã½ School. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 15:43:43 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2350223?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2350223 Insurance litigation firm Matthiesen Wickert & Lehrer SC pushed back against a whistleblower's request to have her case remanded to state court, arguing that the amount sought in the case satisfies the $75,000 minimum to stay in federal court. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 15:15:55 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2350228?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2350228 A divided Texas First Court of Appeals won't disturb a split decision that revived a dispute between an attorney and a former attorney over a fee-sharing agreement in tobacco litigation, rejecting a litigation finance company's en banc request to keep its trial court victory and prevent the case from being remanded. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 14:49:40 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2343509?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2343509 The U.S. Department of Justice’s new rules, making it easier for law enforcement investigating leaks to compel members of the media and third parties to disclose information, could have wide-ranging impacts, from reduced protections for journalists and organizations, to an expanded focus on nonclassified material, say attorneys at WilmerHale. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 14:44:37 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2350100?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2350100 A California trial court erred when it blocked any reference to underlying legal malpractice allegations in a trial for recovery of fees brought by a San Francisco lawyer against his former clients, according to a Golden State appeals panel, which found the malpractice claims, though "effectively abandoned," had not reached final judgment on the merits. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 13:29:17 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2349194?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2349194 Fox Rothschild LLP has settled a Colorado real estate investor's legal malpractice lawsuit over a $3 million development deal that went wrong, according to a new order filed in state court directing the parties to file for dismissal within a month. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 20:56:53 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2350015?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2350015 An Indiana state appeals court Thursday upheld a defense win in a medical malpractice trial despite a juror's post-verdict revelation that she had previously heard of a defense expert witness. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 18:49:30 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2349875?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2349875 A former attorney has asked an Idaho federal court to toss the government's suit accusing him and his company of promoting an abusive tax scheme, arguing that the underlying property sale transactions were above board but the government targeted him as punishment for suing the IRS and to gain backdoor access into confidential business records. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:48:44 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2350041?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2350041 A law firm's counterclaim accusing a paralegal of launching an unpaid overtime wages lawsuit against it in order to try to extort it for money cannot proceed, a Texas federal judge ruled Thursday, saying the claim isn't sufficiently linked to the underlying dispute. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:38:19 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2350001?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2350001 Senate Democrats have vowed to do whatever they can to defeat a provision in the budget reconciliation that would limit federal courts' ability to hold federal officials in contempt, and some Republicans are wary of it as well.  Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:36:06 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2349959?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2349959 Florida attorneys who are charged with a felony will soon be given the opportunity to respond before the issuing of an interim suspension under a new rule created by the Florida Supreme Court Thursday. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:33:55 +0000 /legalethics/articles/2349813?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalethics/articles/2349813 A D.C. federal judge allowed a city attorney's discrimination and retaliation lawsuit to proceed to discovery Thursday, rejecting the D.C. government's motion to toss the claims that a city administrative law judge discriminated against Black women and paid the plaintiff attorney less than her male peers.