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RSMD Law News
RSMD Law News, published by Robinson Stewart Montgomery & Doppke, LLC, focuses on legal ethics and professional responsibility issues affecting lawyers, particularly in Illinois. The blog covers topics such as attorney discipline defense, ethical consulting, bar admissions, sanctions, malpractice defense, and regulatory compliance. It also addresses developments in lawyer disciplinary systems and alternative business models for legal practice. The firm’s attorneys contribute insights on navigating ethical challenges, disciplinary procedures, and the evolving landscape of legal professional regulation. The blog serves as a resource for lawyers seeking guidance on ethical dilemmas and professional conduct standards.
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RSMD Receives Public Guardian’s Outstanding Pro Bono Lawyer Awards
By Jim Doppke
RSMD is pleased to announce that the Cook County Public Guardian’s office has conferred its Outstanding Pro Bono Lawyer award on partners Stephanie Stewart and Sari Montgomery. It also recognized RSMD as an Outstanding Pro Bono Firm.
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RSMD’s Sari Montgomery on Renewing U.S. Disciplinary System
By Jim Doppke
RSMD’s Sari Montgomery recently collaborated with prominent ethics counsel from across the country on a Bloomberg Law article urging a fulsome review of American legal ethics systems and regulatory structures.In the article, the seven authors strongly recommend that the American…
Ethics Column: Avoiding Discipline Despite a Mistake
By Jim Doppke
RSMD’s Sari Montgomery makes her debut as a legal ethics columnist at Business of Law Insider! In her inaugural column, she discusses an all-important question: can lawyers can avoid being disciplined even if they’ve made a mistake? And if…
RSMD’s Sari Montgomery: Ethics Columnist
By Jim Doppke
We’re proud to announce that our own Sari Montgomery has been named the new (and inaugural) ethics columnist for Business of Law Insider, a publication of BridgeTower Media. Sari will be writing a quarterly column, with her first column…
Legal Ethics Now & Next Episode 5: Fluxatility: Lawyers Accepting Crypto
By Jim Doppke
New podcast episode: lawyers accepting crypto as payment. Can you, should you, how thinkable is it now following the FTX debacle? Analyzing all that in this episode!
RSMD’s Sari Montgomery Named to Law360 Legal Ethics Editorial Advisory Board
By Jim Doppke
RSMD is pleased to announce that our partner Sari Montgomery has been named to the 2022 Law360 Legal Ethics Editorial Advisory Board. Members of the Board provide feedback on Law360’s coverage of legal ethics issues. They also lend their…
Legal Ethics Now & Next Episode 4: The 300
By Jim Doppke
Unregistered practice: disciplinary offense or technical error? It’s not an academic exercise: 300 Oregon lawyers had to reckon with the consequences of sudden un-registration, however unintended, this past month. Should they even have had to worry about potentially being disciplined?…
Legal Ethics Now & Next Episode 3: Another State of Mind
By Jim Doppke
Firms with lawyers licensed in different states. A legal ethics thumbs up? Or a gateway to UPL? Is there a method in Illinois for setting up these kinds of entities, limiting the principals’ liability, and avoiding ethical pitfalls? There is…
Legal Ethics Now & Next Episode 2: Sandboxing
By Jim Doppke
Episode 2 of Legal Ethics Now & Next covers a topic mentioned in the previous episode: the Utah program that allows lawyers and other professionals to own legal service providers – a/k/a the Utah “regulatory sandbox.” How does that program…