Your domestic relations client has some really unfortunate Face Book posts that she put up before you filed for divorce on her behalf. Your personal injury client has some pictures on Instagram that seem to depict him riding a surfboard, despite his claimed injury. And your business client, charged with producing a defective product, has
Unauthorized practice — a continuing risk for unregistered in-house lawyers
We’ve written before to remind in-house lawyers that even if you don’t sign pleadings or appear in court on behalf of your corporate employer, you are still practicing law when you give advice and participate in business transactions on your employer’s behalf. If you do so without being duly licensed, you are straying into unauthorized
Deposition frustration: Thoughts on sanctioning lawyers for misconduct
The Eighth Circuit got it wrong a couple weeks ago when it reversed the sanction that a district court had imposed on a lawyer for disruptive deposition conduct.
I have over 35 years of experience as a trial lawyer. One of the biggest frustrations in that practice over the years has always been opposing counsel
Celgard DQ decision– sky is not falling, but representing economic competitors still merits caution
Celgard, LLC v. LG Chem, Ltd., a disqualification case decided by the Federal Circuit, continues to make waves. Insightful commentary from Ronald Rotunda is here; he notes that typing the case name into Google yields more than 5,000 hits.
Last December, when the opinion came out, there was concern (see here and here