Referral fees, or fee sharing, among attorneys have become so commonplace that it may be easy to forget about the headache that they can cause to attorneys and clients alike. Our focus.
Lawyers who inadvertently contact an opposing counsel’s client when responding to the opposing counsel’s group email or text with a “reply all” would not be subject to discipline under a new ethics opinion addressing the “no-contact” provisions of the American Bar Association’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct. “Absent special circumstances, lawyers who copy their clients
Lori Drew faces charges under a federal anti-hacking statute andcould wind up in jail, but her behavior, while obviously wrong, was not criminal. Overcriminalization eliminates long-standingprotections against unfair criminal liability, puts honest citizensat risk of prosecution, and allows politics to trump soundprosecutorial discretion. Worst of all, it threatens the rule oflaw and individual liberty.
Etienne C. Toussaint (University of South Carolina School of Law) has posted The Miseducation of Public Citizens (Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy, Vol. 29, No. 3, 2022) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The American Bar Association Model.
In January 2020, I authored a Law360 guest article titled "Setting Boundaries: An Essential Skill for Lawyers," which highlighted the need for firm boundaries as it relates to.