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Friday, July 21, 2017A Florida Grand Jury declined to bring charges against a Florida man, John Marshall, that killed his neighbor, Theodore Hubbell Jr, dumped the body in the back up his pickup truck and then proceeded the 30 miles to his lawyer’s office. Attorney Harris immediately called 911 to report the murder. READ MORE >>
Monday, July 10, 2017According to the New Jersey Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics Committee Avvo’s client-linking services marketing fee violate the ban on lawyer-referral payments and ban on sharing fees with non-lawyers in their June 21 Opinion. Avvo two legal services website products are Avvo Advisor and Avvo Legal Services. READ MORE >>
Monday, June 26, 2017Earlier this month we reported that Kentucky Attorney Conn after having plead guilty to gaming the Social Security System out of over $550 Million and leaving thousands of former clients devastated was on the Lam. READ MORE >>
Thursday, June 22, 2017Legal Outsourcing is a growing trend in the practice of law. This allows law firms to expand their practice when needed without taking on the fix expenses associated with hiring addition staff. But Legal Outsourcing does add additional risk and exposures to firms. READ MORE >>
Friday, June 16, 2017In Errant Gene Therapeutics, LLC v. Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, a protective order stated:
“Confidential and Attorneys’ Eyes Only information shall be used by the Receiving Party solely for the purposes of preparation for trial, pretrial proceedings, and trial... READ MORE >>
Tuesday, June 13, 2017Formal Opinion 477 provides new guidelines when using e-mail communication with clients. The new standard balance the protection levels needed when using electronic communication with clients. The standard of ‘reasonable effort’ to unauthorized access of internet client communication needs to be followed. READ MORE >>
Tuesday, June 6, 2017Previously we reported on Kentucky Attorney Conn who plead guilty to gaming the social security System out of over $550,000,000. According to the ABA Journal Attorney Conn cut his ankle bracket and has disappeared. The FBI has issued a warrant for his arrest. READ MORE >>
Friday, June 2, 2017Attorney Alison Motta was suspended for stated in one ruling that she did not like that this was ‘F---- B----‘ and rolling her eyes. This was one of many disruptive acts that she committed during in the trail of US v Redwood. READ MORE >>
Thursday, June 1, 2017Recently we blogged about the chronic overbilling problem West Virginia has for state appointed work. The attorney in that blog had been suspended for 2 years. At that time state officials were stating that there were other attorneys that were far worse. READ MORE >>
Friday, May 26, 2017The process for allowing and recovering attorney’s fees for bad faith prosecution of a claim may differ from state to state. A recent Pennsylvania case Villani v. Seibert, is an example of just such a case. This attorney pursued a case against the defendant that was without merit. READ MORE >>
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