Topic
Threats
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Law Practice Tips
Some Specific Steps to Take If You Receive a Threat
By Jim Calloway
In private practice, I was threatened several times, always related to domestic and protective order cases. I didn’t consider any of them serious and took no action. But that was…
Legal Profession Blog
Renewed Threats Draw Additional Sanction
An attorney who had been suspended for three months and was on criminal probation for threats against a psychiatrist was suspended for one year and until further order by the…
Philadelphia Criminal Defense Blog
Not Guilty: Full Acquittal for Man Accused of Threatening Off Duty Police Officer
Philadelphia Criminal Defense Lawyer Zak T. Goldstein, Esquire Philadelphia Criminal Defense Attorney Zak T. Goldstein, Esquire, recently obtained a full acquittal on charges of terroristic threats and harassment for a…
Legal Profession Blog
Stayed Suspension For Threats To Estranged Spouse And Her Dating Partner
The Ohio Supreme Court stayed a six-month suspension with conditionsIn April 2018, Sean McKee began dating Jones’s estranged wife. Jones claims that about a month later, McKee left him a…
Legal Profession Blog
Not Funny
A British Columbia Law Society Hearing Panel imposed a fine for an attorney's threats to his former intimate partnerThe key issue at [the criminal] trial was whether, as the Respondent…
Ethicking
Settle the Case or I'll Call Police
The Wisconsin State Bar Standing Committee on Professional Ethics (of which I am a member) recently approved Formal Opinion EF-21-01, which clarifies when you can threaten someone with criminal prosecution…
Bench & Bar of Minnesota
When may a lawyer ethically threaten criminal prosecution?
By Minnesota State Bar Association
<p>Many lawyers and members of the public look askance at lawyers who threaten criminal prosecution as part of negotiations in civil litigation. Every year we receive several complaints against lawyers…
The Lawyer's Lawyer
The Ethics of Intimidation
By Irwin Kramer
Q. Representing a large manufacturer, I sent a demand letter threatening to sue its competitor and promising a nasty discovery process that would be the "legal equivalent of a proctology…
Legal Profession Blog
“That’s Your License Counselor”
The New York Commission on Judicial Conduct has admonished a judgeRespondent, Genine D. Edwards, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Kings County, was served with a Formal Written Complaint dated…
Birdsong's Law Blog
Weird Criminal Law Stories # 533: Hannibal the cannibal?
PENNSYLVANIA: Hannibal the cannibal? A man has been ordered to stand trial on charges he threatened a judge by sending her a letter with a picture of Hannibal Lecter –…