Thousands of complaints are filed against Louisiana lawyers each year. Many are caused by simple mistakes and innocent misunderstandings about what the rules of conduct require. If you are like most lawyers, questions …
These lawyers were the subject of Louisiana Supreme Court disciplinary orders or Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board recommendations published during the month of March 2020. Louisiana Supreme Court Connie P. Trieu. …
Embarrassment is often a person’s first reaction after hitting “reply to all” when sending an email that required only a “reply.”1 If the email was inappropriate, the sender suffers, at …
An odd question, but one that a New York court recently considered in a lawyer disciplinary proceeding. See In re Eliot Bloom, No. 2017-11411 (N.Y. App. Div. Dec. 18 2019).1 …
No, according to the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia. See Lawyer Disciplinary Board v. Sayre, No. 18-0617 (W. Va. Oct. 24, 2019).1 ABA Model Rule of Professional Conduct …
Before March 26, 2020, the answer was “no.” At that time, Louisiana law did not permit a lawyer1 to notarize a document remotely. Louisiana Revised Statutes section 35:2 provides that …
On Wednesday, March 25, 2019, Professor Dane S. Ciolino and New Orleans lawyer Ernie Svenson presented a one-hour webinar entitled “Competency in a Time of COVID.” During the program, they …
These lawyers were the subject of Louisiana Supreme Court disciplinary orders or Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board recommendations published during the month of February 2020. Louisiana Supreme Court Ronald David Harvey. …
These lawyers were the subject of Louisiana Supreme Court disciplinary orders or Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board recommendations published during the month of January 2020. Louisiana Supreme Court Donald R. Dobbins. …
Lawyers are often confused about the applicability and scope of the no-contact provisions of Rule 4.2. That rule provides that a “lawyer in representing a client shall not communicate about …
