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New ABA Formal Opinion 19-489 is titled, “Obligations Related to Notice When Lawyers Change Firms.”
Read More »Quandaries and Quagmires: Lawyer departure notices — new ABA opinion
Board proposes amending Op. 21 on disclosing malpractice
The Minnesota Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board is soliciting comments on its proposal to amend Board Opinion 21.
Read More »Quandaries and Quagmires: Changes in former client conflict law
Several aspects of a recent discipline – reversed by a Lawyers Board panel – suggest that it is time for an update on Rule 1.9, ...
Read More »Court reverses discipline; attorney filed brief late
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.
Read More »Quandaries and Quagmires: The making of an ethics lawyer
Does the offense of ‘unshined buttons’ warrant suspension, even where the offender leads a life of constant danger?
Read More »Quandaries and Quagmires: Lawyers, judges, ethics and social media
By affecting our culture and modes of communication, social media reshapes many questions of legal and judicial ethics.
Read More »Quandaries and Quagmires: Is attorney discipline a ‘gotcha game?’
On the other hand, OLPR takes the position that discipline may be imposed, “regardless of whether an innocent oversight is to blame."
Read More »Quandaries and Quagmires: Client confidentiality: ABA Formal Opinion 480
How did the ABA back itself into this corner? There are five answers.
Read More »Quandaries and Quagmires: Expert witnesses in lawyer discipline cases
Should experts testify more often in discipline cases?
Read More »Quandaries and Quagmires: New ABA Op. 479: Using former clients’ information
When may a lawyer use information from a prior representation against the former client?
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