In my ethics nerd friend circles, we often discuss “those cases.” “Those cases” either involve attorney discipline or judges admonishing attorneys for allegedly bad behavior outside of the disciplinary cases; they’re not of great importance or precedential value by themselves. But they act as cautionary tales and generate extra publicity and discussion (at least in my ethics nerd friend circles) because they involve some combination of vulgarity, sex, “really, you have a law license and thought this was a good idea?” and/or general silliness.
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Thoughts on legal ethics and law practice. Licensed in Wisconsin and Illinois, opinionated everywhere.
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"This Blog Isn't About Politics," and Other Lies We Tell
When I launched this site back in October I intended it to be a site for discussion of legal ethics. I mean, it’s right there in the title (sort of; perhaps I should add getting “ethicking” added to the dictionary to my bucket list). Disciplinary decisions, new rules, general nerdery. Some current events but “it’s not about politics, and it’s not going to be about politics,” or so I told my employer when making the pitch.
You Really Said That With Your Outside Voice?
With all due respect to my judge friends, I think most of us who litigate have been tempted to ask, “are you serious, judge?” in court at one point or another. But (I would hope) most of us know better than to actually say it out loud.
Enter Todd Banks of Queens, New York, who seems to have a problem with a lot of things.
This is Some Bull, Really
I know I’ve been remiss in covering this, and I’m not going to get into the merits of a defamation claim brought by a public official (short version: good luck with that), but.
For some time, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) has been aggrieved by, well, a Twitter cow.