Judicial Ethics
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Allstate doubled down Friday in its bid for sanctions against a Culver City, California, attorney who sent threatening, profanity-laced emails to the insurer’s counsel during a coverage dispute, saying the lawyer still hadn’t apologized for his behavior even as the case neared settlement… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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California Supreme Court Justice Ming W. Chin, the longest-serving of the seven current members of the state’s high court and its first Chinese American judge, will retire at the end of August, the Golden State court system announced Wednesday. Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig launched what he called a “clickbait defamation” action against The New York Times on Monday in Massachusetts federal court, claiming an article in the newspaper falsely implied he defended the notion of taking charitable donations from Jeffrey Epstein… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A California attorney who was ordered last year to pay $12 million for “serious ethical violations” has been violating a federal court’s orders by harassing and threatening class members in an action over a never-built Las Vegas condominium, according to a Tuesday filing in the case… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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With the acrimonious breakup of New York-based personal injury firm Cellino & Barnes PC on the verge of becoming official, Stephen E. Barnes alleged in court papers Friday that fellow name partner Ross M. Cellino Jr. orchestrated an intrusion into the firm’s computer system… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 