The Justice Department Is Lowering Its Ethical Guardrails
For generations, strict limits on the DOJ's political activity helped sustain trust. Weakening those limits threatens to erode it.
Legal Ethics Roundup: Ethics Whiplash Over Executive Orders + FL Bondi Complaint, DOJ Takes On State Discipline, Spike In Judicial Conduct Complaints & More
Your tour of all things related to lawyer and judicial ethics, with University of Houston law professor Renee Knake Jefferson.
What Biglaw Can Learn From Personal Injury Firms
How a former insurance agent built a Houston injury practice around systems, empathy, and disciplined advocacy.
Lindsey Halligan Under Investigation And The DOJ Is Big Mad About It
Well, that's probably why Pam Bondi started making up rules this week.
Bondi Says She’s The Bar Now
We don't need no stinkin' ethics.
Pam Bondi Declares Herself God-Empress Of Ethics
Pam Bondi wants to halt state bars from investigation ethical breaches on her watch... forever.
AI Is Reshaping Legal Practice—But Tools Aren’t The Real Differentiator.
Explore the mindset, cultural shifts, and training strategies that define the AI‑savvy lawyer, revealing why human judgment, standardized competence, and integrated learning—not technology alone—will shape the future of the profession.
Skadden Sanctioned Over ‘Duplicative, Vexatious Litigation’
Rough week for Skadden.
Legal Ethics Roundup: Ethics Of AI Glasses In Court, Gambling Lawyer Guilty, SCOTUS Restricts Access to Counsel, Judge’s Novel Recusal & More
Your tour of all things related to lawyer and judicial ethics, with University of Houston law professor Renee Knake Jefferson.
This Plaintiffs’ Lawyer Took ‘Creative Lawyering’ Way Too Literally
When the plaintiffs’ lawyer becomes the defendant.
Federal Judge Accused Of Driving ‘Super Drunk’ Crashes Into Judicial Misconduct Complaint
The filing zeroes in on transparency, accountability, and public trust.
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Legal Ethics Roundup: SCOTUS’s New Recusal Software, Is $9,350 Handbag Gift A Legal Ethics Violation?, IL May Limit Firm Investment, ‘Slaughtering’ Mansfield Rule, Law School Accreditation & More
Your tour of all things related to lawyer and judicial ethics, with University of Houston law professor Renee Knake Jefferson.
Supreme Court Adopts ‘New’ Process To Avoid Conflicts Of Interest 20 Years Too Late
The justices announce conflict-checking software and new filing rules that lower courts have used forever.
Legal Ethics Roundup: Judge Hid DUI, FTC On Law Firm DEI, Hostile Chambers, SCOTUS NDAs, AZ ABSs Critiqued & More
Your tour of all things related to lawyer and judicial ethics, with University of Houston law professor Renee Knake Jefferson.
Accountability In An Age Of Unaccountability
Between Epstein files and ethical breaches, a reckoning seems so close yet so far.
Is President Trump’s $10B Lawsuit Against The IRS Legitimate Despite Being Both The Plaintiff And The Defendant?
Trump will have to prove actual damages sufficient to justify the $10 billion he is demanding.