BP Deepwater Horizon Ethical Issues: A Televised Discussion
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 …
Federal Prosecutorial Misconduct Leads to New Trial in NOPD Danziger Bridge Shooting Case
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 …
Why Lawyers Should Stop Worrying About Using Public Wi-Fi
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 …
May I Undertake a Limited Scope Representation?
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 …
Lawyer Interfirm Mobility Facilitated by Recent Developments
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 …
Fixed Fees Are Earned When Paid in Louisiana
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 …