Judicial Ethics
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A Washington federal judge on Wednesday stood behind an earlier decision to hand out sanctions amounting to more than $10,000 to an attorney who helped a former tribal health executive mount a “frivolous” False Claims Act case against the Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A Fifth Circuit appeals panel on Thursday upheld a lower court’s ruling against a former Mississippi prosecutor who claimed she was fired due to race and gender discrimination, while her boss said he let her go for writing bad checks and using office letterhead to stave off a creditor… Read this piece in its entirety
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Notorious Ponzi scammer Bernie Madoff asked a New York federal court on Wednesday to let him out of a 150-year prison sentence after serving just over a decade, saying he’s expected to die soon due to complications from kidney failure… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Attorneys belonging to various state bar associations have raised concerns about the ethical “minefield” that could result from the adoption of a proposal before the American Bar Association aimed at opening the door to greater involvement of nonlawyers in the legal industry… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A pair of lawyers landed in hot water with the Second Circuit by failing to acknowledge the death of their client for almost a year, with the appeals court issuing an order on Tuesday tossing the case and calling the attorneys’ behavior “inexcusable”… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 