The Missouri Supreme Court on Sept. 17 ordered a suspension of at least six months for an attorney who had a sexual relationship with a client. The discipline matches what the Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel had argued was appropriate ...

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The Missouri Supreme Court returns to the bench Wednesday with a case that could set out the appropriate discipline for an attorney who has a sexual relationship with a client. The Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel argues that St. Louis ...

Tagged with: attorney-client affair ethics Missouri Supreme Court Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel Stephen G. Bell

When Liz O’Sullivan was hired at the New York City-based artificial intelligence company Clarifai in 2017, she felt lucky to find work at the intersection of two of her main interests: technology and ethics. Two years later, she found herself ...

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When Liz O’Sullivan was hired at the New York City-based artificial intelligence company Clarifai in 2017, she felt lucky to find work at the intersection of two of her main interests: technology and ethics. Two years later, she found herself ...

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Michael Downey has a whole practice area he calls “law-firm departures.” “Every time it happens, somebody comes up with a new, creative and often incredibly stupid thing to do when they change firms,” said Downey, a legal ethics lawyer who ...

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An American Bar Association committee is spelling out when it’s reasonable — and unreasonable — for lawyers to change a client’s fee terms during representation.

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I am extremely skilled at spotting writing mistakes because I have made them all. Therefore, I am qualified to give advice to the unidentified South Carolina lawyer who got a slap on the wrist for writing an email to a lawyer he was opposing in a case.

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Maintaining the confidentiality of digital data — it’s an ever-present conundrum for lawyers as cloud computing increases in popularity and mobile use becomes ubiquitous.

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A prominent Clayton family law firm has plunged into scandal over its handling of emailed evidence in a contentious custody dispute.

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Many attorneys and law firm marketers have sounded alarms that the American Bar Association’s Commission on Ethics 20/20 is examining legal ethics issues arising from lawyers’ use of Internet-based client development tools.

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Late last month, the ethics subcommittee of the North Carolina bar examined whether a law firm could ethically use Groupon to offer discounted legal services to a group of purchasers or if doing so ran contrary to North Carolina’s ethical guidelines.

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