Legal Ethics
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Ethics Panel: 1. Fill Bucket with Ice Water, 2. Pour Over Head
Tech columnist Bob Ambrogi identifies three top takeaways from a new, must-read legal ethics opinion.
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New Guidelines: ABA On Email And NYSBA On Social Media
What new ethics rules must lawyers abide by?
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Legal Ethics, Small Law Firms, Solo Practitioners, Technology
The Commercialization Of Legal Ethics, And The Avvo Defense
Why do solos and smalls find themselves in a perpetual state of catch-up?
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Another State Adopts The Duty of Technology Competence
This means 26 states have now adopted some version of Comment 8 to ABA Model Rule 1.1.
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Facebook, Legal Ethics, State Judges, Technology
If You Are a Judge, Do Your Facebook Friends Matter?
It seems there is an interesting emerging trend in litigation these days: When a ruling doesn’t go your way, just make an appeal alleging judicial conflict of interest. Same-sex marriage opponents wanted California judge Vaughn Walker to recuse himself from Prop. 8 hearings because he is gay. If and when the Supreme Court decides to […]
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Attorney Misconduct, Deaths, Facebook, Legal Ethics, Patton Boggs, Screw-Ups, Social Networking Websites, Technology, Trials
Facebook Spoliation Costs Widower and His Attorney $700K in Sanctions
When a tipster sent us an e-mail with the subject, “Court awards $700,000+ in sanctions for destruction of FB page,” Chris Danzig thought it sounded like it might be interesting. Because hey, that’s a lot of money. He didn’t realize it would also be one of the most depressing legal news stories he’d read since the tragic Friedlander murder-suicide….
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Conferences / Symposia, Document Review, Intellectual Property, Legal Ethics, Litigators, Patents, Qualcomm, Technology
Dispatch from Amelia Island: When Clients Attack
Adam Bier was still a self-described “baby lawyer” when he was wrongfully sanctioned in the landmark 2008 Qualcomm e-discovery case. The appealed sanctions were finally vacated, more than two years after they were first imposed. Bier shared his story with attendees at the Legal Technology Leadership Summit, joined onstage by U.S. Magistrate Judge David Waxse and Frank Cialone, who defended several of the outside counsel in Qualcomm. Read on to learn the details of Bier’s nightmare experience. Can you imagine yourself in his shoes?
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Facebook, Legal Ethics, Rudeness, Social Networking Websites, Technology
I’m Suing You, So No, We Can’t Be Facebook Friends
Lawyers love to talk about how technology always moves faster than the law. Nowhere is that tension more apparent (and sadistically fun to observe) than within the mean streets of Facebook. We’ve covered legal standards surrounding Facebook before — and it never gets old. This week, a defense attorney in a personal injury case learns […]