https://www.law360.com/legalethics?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Legal Ethics Copyright 2025 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US Thu, 01 May 2025 23:14:48 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2333521?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2333521 A Georgia Congressman on Thursday introduced legislation that would ensure misconduct complaints against judges would still be investigated, even if the judge has resigned, retired or even died. Thu, 01 May 2025 22:52:42 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2333273?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2333273 A Manhattan federal judge on Thursday permanently ended claims a real estate investor in a botched $2.6 billion Philippine casino deal brought against attorneys from Sadis & Goldberg LLP, finding that claims that they allowed a fraud to unfold and breached their fiduciary duties were too vague. Thu, 01 May 2025 20:38:00 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2332757?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2332757 The House Judiciary Committee approved along party lines a proposal they say will prevent "frivolous lawsuits" by barring courts from enforcing contempt citations for failure to comply with injunctions if the plaintiff has not posted a bond for litigation costs. Thu, 01 May 2025 18:56:57 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2332362?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2332362 Two Oklahoma district attorneys have urged a federal court to throw out Cherokee, Chickasaw and Choctaw nation lawsuits challenging the district attorneys' attempts to prosecute tribal citizens for crimes committed in Indian Country, arguing that their complaints wrongly seek to overturn a state criminal court opinion. Thu, 01 May 2025 16:58:39 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2333163?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2333163 A North Carolina trade executive's latest trip to the Second Circuit in his quest to win damages for alleged hacking by a private investigator on Dechert LLP's behalf should end like the others, with a dismissal, defense counsel argued Thursday. Thu, 01 May 2025 16:53:24 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2333174?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2333174 The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a recommendation by an ethics watchdog that a state judge should only be reprimanded and fined for improper campaign donations and discussions about her own reelection campaign, saying she should also get a 10-day suspension. Thu, 01 May 2025 16:50:53 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2333025?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2333025 Drew Eckl & Farnham LLP renewed its calls for the Supreme Court of Georgia to reconsider an appellate panel's ruling that a breakaway law firm can't be forced to arbitrate a fee dispute, arguing the Georgia Court of Appeals' ruling last month "should not be allowed to become the law." Thu, 01 May 2025 16:50:17 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2333131?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2333131 A Colorado state judge resigned on Wednesday amid a disciplinary complaint accusing him of misusing his position to help a former client that he exchanged sexual and flirtatious texts with, telling an independent panel in a brief that it no longer needs to hear a disciplinary case against him. Thu, 01 May 2025 16:14:37 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2333012?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2333012 The legal malpractice suit in which gene sequencing company GenapSys Inc. argued Paul Hastings LLP caused GenapSys' bankruptcy appears to have been settled. Thu, 01 May 2025 15:56:31 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2332880?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2332880 Twenty former federal district and circuit judges on Thursday launched a coalition to speak out about and defend the federal judiciary as political impeachment attempts against judges increase and the federal courts system faces heightened scrutiny. Thu, 01 May 2025 15:55:56 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2332687?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2332687 A Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission panel has "reluctantly, but of necessity" recommended the removal of a Florida judge found to have made inappropriate comments about abortion amid an election campaign, stating that the judge showed a lack of remorse for her actions in testimony before the panel. Thu, 01 May 2025 14:58:54 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2332637?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2332637 A former McCarter & English LLP client waited too long to challenge interest calculations that added more than $1 million to an attorney fee award, the firm has argued, asking a judge to reject Jarrow Formulas Inc.'s bid to reduce a March 12 judgment totaling $3.8 million. Thu, 01 May 2025 14:53:51 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2333002?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2333002 The NFL retirement plan's appeal of a $1.86 million award of attorney fees and expenses to a former player fighting for additional disability benefits will go forward, after a panel of the Fifth Circuit rejected his bid to stop it. Thu, 01 May 2025 13:23:39 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2332663?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2332663 A jury should determine whether landscape workers are owed overtime wages or if they fall under an exemption from the premium pay, a Kansas federal judge ruled while finding the H-2B visa applications their employer filed did not include a promise to pay the extra wages. Thu, 01 May 2025 10:21:44 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2305667?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2305667 Serving as an adjunct college professor has taught me the importance of building rapport, communicating effectively, and persuading individuals to critically analyze the difference between what they think and what they know — principles that have helped to improve my practice of law, says Sheria Clarke at Nelson Mullins. Thu, 01 May 2025 00:09:14 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2332774?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2332774 A California federal judge Wednesday agreed with Epic Games that Apple violated her order blocking App Store rules that prevent developers from steering users to alternative payment options, and has now barred Apple from collecting any fees on outside-app purchases and referred the matter to federal prosecutors for possible criminal contempt proceedings. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 23:36:18 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2332754?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2332754 Susman Godfrey LLP has pressed a D.C. federal court not to kill the firm's suit challenging President Donald Trump's executive order targeting the firm, arguing that the government's "meritless" dismissal motion "goes to great lengths to distract from the indisputable truth" that the order is "blatantly unconstitutional." Wed, 30 Apr 2025 21:51:29 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2332558?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2332558 The California Bar has asked the state's supreme court to help it account for rampant technical difficulties on the February 2025 bar exam by approving a lower passing score and allowing the bar to give test-takers credit for some questions they left blank. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 21:11:47 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2332642?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2332642 A former Dominion Voting executive said MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell shouldn't be allowed to delay a June defamation trial because his attorneys face potential sanctions for a brief that used artificial intelligence, arguing recent executive orders against law firms suggest the defamation claim would face "extreme prejudice" from a delay. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:53:47 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2332533?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2332533 A New York federal judge has shot down Google's bid for sanctions of a location tracking patent owner in litigation accusing the search engine giant of infringement, calling the request "unnecessary."