All posts tagged "legal ethics"

Chief Justice Gina Benavides Writes About Texas Appellate Standards. We’re Talkin’ Lawyers Creed, Legal Ethics and Other Obscure Rules Folks.

Class Action Legal Ethics are Different Says Creative Eleventh Circuit And Relying On Old 5th Cir. Precedent

Experience teaches that it is counsel for the class representative and not the named parties, who direct and manage these actions. Every experienced...

Over in Colorado; A Judge Tips Off Drug Dealer, is Disbarred, Now Plea Dealin’ As He Faces Jail

Ex Judge in Colorado, Ryan Kamada pleaded guilty to obstructing a federal drug investigation, has been disbarred.

San Antonio Lawyer Phil Ross’s Court Case(s) Went Viral Until The Virus. Now Everyone is Waiting.

San Antonio Lawyer Phil Ross, known for his combative style has been sued by the State Bar of Texas and is in...

Fifth Circuit Judicial Council Immunity Leaves Rogue Judges’ Secretary in the Cold

The court dismissed the complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, concluding Danos’s claims were barred by sovereign immunity.

Fifth Circuit Judge Edith Clement Applies the Mandatory Fairness Requirement re An Opportunity to Be Heard

In the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, fairness requires that a litigant have the opportunity to be heard before a...

Fifth Circuit Judge Edith Brown Clement Understands the Various Badges of Fraud in Law. The Caveat is Lawyers Are Immune

An individual badge of fraud is not conclusive, but a concurrence of many badges in the same case will always make out...

It’s Still Cookin’ in the County Hot Potato Case. A Letter is Issued to the Chief Judge Smashing the Sanctions Order

Magistrate Judge Harjani did not take into account the Hot Potato Doctrine which does not protect the Goodwin Procter lawyers violations.

Chicago Lawyer David Pasulka and the Sex for Services Scandal which is Commonplace Nationwide in the Legal Industry

A prominent Chicago attorney once told a woman he would tell a judge to give her full custody of her children if...

In 2020 the ABA President Asked for Rebellion in Austin. This is Another Example of Why the Profession Has Become Tyrannical

American Bar Association President Judy Perry Martinez incited rebellion at the House of Delegates at the 2020 ABA Midyear Meeting in Austin,...

The Unprecedented Greed Series: What do Rudy Giuliani, Ukraine, and Goodwin have In Common? Criminality.

NY Judge: Correia’s reliance on an out-of-circuit case, United States v. Hankins (5th Cir.), for the proposition that a client’s communication of...

The Unprecedented Greed Series: Goodwin Eager to Represent Law Firm Guilty of Stealing Talent from Search Recruitment Consultancy

Lawyers at Freshfields decided to hijack the search recruiting consultancy (ESA) introduction of Attorney Klingsberg to unfairly deprive ESA of its fee....

D.C. Lawyer Robert M. Schulman Too Big To Jail or Even Disbar as a Convicted Felon. Defund The Bar.

Buried: In this case, the convicted felon lawyer has consented - how noble - to a conveniently backdated suspension. He is not...

The Swiss Verein Law Firm Dentons ends Up Being Carved Up by a few Judges Armed and Skilled using Swiss Knives

If you represent yourself to the public as Dentons, then you will be held accountable as Dentons whether you have a Swiss...

Who is Goodwin Procter Lawyer Alexis Susan Coll-Very?

When she wasn't rocking it with her husband, Alexis Coll-Very was making a lot of noise for all the wrong reasons in...

The Unprecedented Greed Series: Goodwin Procter Billing Model is Questioned Again and It’s an Ethical One Too.

In 1996, the Supreme Judicial Court held in In the Matter of Fordham that fee agreements are not simply pure matters of...

Two Texans Get 5 Years Each for Theft of $25,000 in Iowa. Iowa Attorney Gets Zero Jail Time, No Felony Record and Keeps her Law License for $100,000 theft.

The two Texans were arrested June 11 after employees at Sioux City's Scheels store saw them making suspicious purchases on a credit...

Lawyer Meyer Suspended in Iowa for Fraudulent Billing in Excess of $100k in Attorney Fees. Citizen Jacobs Wrote Bad Checks for $1,100 and was Sentenced to 5 Years Jail

Lawyers Above the Law: It's very disheartening when you read articles about lawyer theft by overbilling attorney fees and they are given...