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Litigation Misconduct
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Legal Profession Blog
Disbarment For Litigation Misconduct By Former Dorsey & Whitney Partner
A matter that has previously generated a great amount of interest and (as noted by the dissent) a number of disparate sanctions has led to reciprocal disbarment in MarylandCourt of…
MS Litigation Review & Commentary
Texas Lawyer Indicted in Mississippi For Lying to Get on BP Steering Committee
A federal court grand jury in Mississippi indicted Texas lawyer Mikal Watts for conduct related to the BP oil spill litigation.Watts is familiar to Mississippi lawyers who worked on the…
Legal Profession Blog
Litigation Misconduct Draws One Year Suspension
The New Jersey Supreme Court has imposed a one-year suspension as reciprocal discipline in an interesting litigation-misconduct matter.The misconduct involved an associate's attorney handling of an employment discrimination matter against the…
Legal Profession Blog
Wild In Cody
A Cody attorney has been censured by the Wyoming Supreme Court for litigation misconduct.The Missoulian has the details The Wyoming Supreme Court on Wednesday censured a Cody lawyer who represented a…
MS Litigation Review & Commentary
More From the Lawyers Shouldn’t File Stuff Like this Chronicles
As if getting crushed in the BP Oil Spill litigation wasn't enough, District Judge Carl Barbier is calling out BP's lawyers for cheating by sneakily exceeding the Court's 35-page brief…
Litigation & Trial
Pradaxa Benchslap: “the defendants can’t fathom the Court was not persuaded”
[Update, December 9, 2013: Judge Herndon entered stiff sanctions today given Defendants' misconduct in discovery. "As the Court mentioned hereinbefore, the question the Court has been asking over and over again has…
Legal Profession Blog
Settlement Misconduct Draws Suspension
An attorney who was suspended for one year by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York received the same sanction as reciprocal discipline of the…
Alabama Employment Law Report
EEOC In Hot Water
Two recent stories about misconduct committed by the EEOC caught my attention. First, the ABA Journal reports that the EEOC has been ordered to pay $4.7 million in legal fees and costs in the CRST…
Legal Profession Blog
“Insulting Invective,” Other Violations, Draw Censure
A former Assistant City Attorney for Sioux Falls was publicly censured by the South Dakota Supreme Court.There were findings of misconduct in two matters. One involved litigation misconduct that included…
Legal Profession Blog
Lisa Dolak on Civil Litigation Failure and Ethics Lapses, Especially in IP Cases
Recently posted on SSRN is an article by Syracuse's Lisa Dolak called Trial Lawyers in Trouble: Litigation Misconduct and Its Ethics Fallout. Its abstract is:Misconduct in civil litigation is not…