In Herman v. Cataphora, Inc., the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit dismissed a defamation claim brought by New Orleans lawyer Russ M. Herman and Philadelphia lawyer Arnold Levin …
A New Jersey federal district court recently refused to strike down a state advertising rule prohibiting a lawyer from selectively quoting a judge’s laudatory comments about a lawyer. In Dwyer …
Rule 7.2 contains the most fundamental principle governing lawyer advertising: a lawyer may not make a “false or misleading” statement about the lawyer’s services. A California lawyer is facing a …
For a sometimes heated discussion of the legal (and moral) ethical issues presented by the BP Deepwater Horizon settlement, see the embedded video below, or click here: WLAE Discussion on …
In an astonishing 129-page opinion, Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana granted a new trial to five former New Orleans …
Rule 1.6 of course requires a lawyer to maintain the confidentiality of client information. But does it require a lawyer who digitally stores and communicates information to use über-security measures like encryption or …
A Louisiana lawyer may undertake a “limited scope” representation of a client. See La. Rules of Prof’l Conduct R. 1.2(c). For example, a lawyer who represents an employee injured on the …
Traditionally, a lawyer joined a law firm immediately after law school graduation and retired from that firm after a long career. This, of course, is no longer true. Several recent …
In an interesting opinion decided today (September 24, 2009), the District of Columbia Court of Appeals held that fixed fees “are an advance of unearned fees that belong to the …
