Attorney can’t keep passport to guarantee fee payment 
Published: April 26, 2013
Tags: attorney lien, passport, Rules of Professional Conduct
An attorney could not retain a person’s passport in order to ensure that he was paid the remainder of his fee, the Colorado Supreme Court has ruled.
Benchmarks: Lawyer can’t keep passport to ensure payment
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: April 23, 2013
Tags: attorney discipline, attorney lien, passport, Rules of Professional Conduct
The Colorado Supreme Court decided yesterday that an attorney could not hold onto a person’s U.S. passport in order to ensure that he was paid the remainder of his fees.
Ohio attorneys given OK to text potential clients
Published: April 19, 2013
Tags: client solicitation, Rules of Professional Conduct
Attorneys may use text messages to solicit employment from prospective clients, an Ohio disciplinary board has concluded in an advisory opinion.
Attorney may practice in multiple firms simultaneously
Published: April 19, 2013
Tags: multi-firm employment, Rules of Professional Conduct
A lawyer may practice in more than one firm at the same time if the practice otherwise complies with the Rules of Professional Conduct, an Ohio disciplinary board has concluded in an advisory opinion.
Benchmarks: Lawyers may text ads to prospective clients
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: April 16, 2013
Tags: attorney advertising, Rules of Professional Conduct, text messaging, texting
An Ohio disciplinary panel says it is okay for lawyers to use text messages to solicit employment from prospective clients.
N.H. ethics panel approves use of cloud computing
Published: March 25, 2013
Tags: cloud computing, ethics, Rules of Professional Conduct
A lawyer may use cloud computing as long as reasonable steps are taken to ensure that sensitive client information remains confidential, a New Hampshire ethics committee has concluded in an advisory opinion.
Benchmarks: Class action king Stan Chesley disbarred by Ky. top court
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: March 22, 2013
Tags: disbarment, fen-phen, Rules of Professional Conduct
Stanley M. Chesley’s fabled career appears to be at an end in the wake of yesterday’s decision by the Kentucky Supreme Court to disbar the pioneering class action lawyer for taking an “unreasonable” fee from a $200 million fen-phen settlement.
Law firms may use trade names, N.J. top court rules
Published: March 19, 2013
Tags: ethics, lawyer advertising, Rules of Professional Conduct
A law firm may use a trade name so long as it describes the nature of the legal practice in terms that are accurate and not misleading, the New Jersey Supreme Court has decided in amending a state rule on attorney advertising.
Benchmarks: Internet salvoes may result in lawyer’s suspension
Published: March 18, 2013
Tags: attorney misconduct, duty of confidentiality, Rules of Professional Conduct
A Georgia lawyer may soon have time off she didn’t plan for.
That’s because this morning the state high court rejected a mere reprimand as the sanction for her conceded misconduct in responding to a negative review posted by a former client on a consumer website.
Benchmarks: Dumbbell-wielding defense attorney disbarred
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: March 7, 2013
Tags: attorney discipline, attorney misconduct, Rules of Professional Conduct
The Minnesota Supreme Court yesterday disbarred a former defense attorney who is currently serving a six-year sentence for dropping dumbbells on the head of a former client.
