Questions about whether your law firm has ethics policies and training are timely, and indeed urgent, because of two recent discipline cases and increasing enforcement by the Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility (OLPR).
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Abolition of champerty may well increase the frequency of litigation financing. Minnesota lawyers will have to be alert to several ethics issues.
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A familiar legal ethics maxim is, “We all make mistakes. What matters is what we do next.”
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New ABA Formal Opinion 19-489 is titled, “Obligations Related to Notice When Lawyers Change Firms.”
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The Minnesota Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board is soliciting comments on its proposal to amend Board Opinion 21.
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Several aspects of a recent discipline – reversed by a Lawyers Board panel – suggest that it is time for an update on Rule 1.9, ...
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When does a lawyer deserve discipline for violating a procedural rule, such as a filing deadline? The answer is important, because the 2019 Minnesota Rules of Court book has 1,303 pages of rules.
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Does the offense of ‘unshined buttons’ warrant suspension, even where the offender leads a life of constant danger?
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By affecting our culture and modes of communication, social media reshapes many questions of legal and judicial ethics.
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On the other hand, OLPR takes the position that discipline may be imposed, “regardless of whether an innocent oversight is to blame."
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