ethics

Lawyers like to complain a lot about sucky things, particularly sucky things that are unethical.

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Does everybody lie about their CLE credits? Should I just do whatever everyone else does and lie about mine?

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Kimber and Mark discuss the hard life of a pimp, plus the Sugarland lawsuit and disciplinary action over seeking a paralegal. And more!

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Would you consider offering steeply discounted legal services on a deal site geared toward saving lawyers money while generating local business?

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If I get an offer from the second firm, I’m bailing on the first one in a heartbeat. Is this unethical?

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Anyone making mad money getting paid from dishing out legal advice on lawyer Q&A sites?

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QI am a third-year associate who, after getting off to a rocky start, knows the ropes fairly well now at a mid-size firm (about 200 lawyers). But I’m stumped on how to handle a potential ethical lapse. The firm has a client that is a regional seafood distributor, among other things. I was involved in [...]

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Headlines from the Bitter Newsroom that will need the next 60 days to break a Gourmet habit: • Here’s a lead story that includes ‘sodomy’ but not ‘Polanski.’ Whore-ay!  “[Herman] Thomas, former Alabama Circuit Court judge, stands accused of sodomy, kidnapping, sex abuse, extortion, assault and ethics violations.” His begins trial today, with jury selection [...]

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I think this scum should be reported to the State Ethics Commission. I’d do it myself, but I don’t have first-hand knowledge.