Judicial Ethics
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The Tenth Circuit’s disciplinary body has publicly rebuked a federal judge in Kansas, admonishing him for making sexually inappropriate remarks to court employees, carrying on an affair with a convicted felon and consistently showing up late for court proceedings… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP on Monday urged a California federal court to reject a New Jersey law firm’s request for sanctions in a contentious suit over $6 million in attorney fees, calling the Garden State firm’s allegations of witness tampering “frivolous” and “baseless”… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A onetime FBI agent aided various swindlers in several fraud schemes that swiped some $2.1 million from investors, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleged in a suit filed Friday in Georgia federal court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A New Jersey judge partially admitted on Thursday to making “intemperate and not judicial” remarks in a case stemming from a dispute among two members of a love triangle over the alleged theft of some racy photos… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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New York’s Herrick Feinstein LLP was hit Wednesday with a malpractice suit seeking $1.1 billion in damages for allegedly blowing a deadline to disclose expert testimony to lawyers on the other side of a case centering on a real estate business partnership gone sour… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 