Making Faces

One of the things a person learns in the practice of law, is that the human capacity for the bizarre is boundless.

This is a phenomenon richly demonstrated in the tale of Paul McCulloch Alexander.

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Unfit to practice

This item appeared at Legal Profession Blog.

A Pennsylvania lawyer had his friend, from whom he rented space, prepare a will for a client wherein the lawyer became his client’s residual beneficiary with power of attorney, and made him the client’s joint-account owner with rights of survivorship to 90% of her assets.

That earned him a 5 year suspension from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which accepted the recommendations of its Disciplinary Committee.

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The ‘Cab Rank’ Principle: Can Barristers Refuse a Brief?

The first time I ever heard of this principle was when I read about it at The Australian Professional Liability Blog a few days ago.

Stephen Warne wrote about how a political candidate in an Australian state election took a cheap shot at an opponent who happened to be a very respected barrister.

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The Ethics of Advising Clients to Make Social Networks Private

How far a lawyer can go in advising a client to arrange his affairs to optimize his litigation outcome is not a new question.

Social media does, however, create some added wrinkles.

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