Judicial Ethics
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A former magistrate in Virginia Beach filed a federal lawsuit on Saturday claiming she was fired for speaking out about frequent excessive alcohol consumption and sexual harassment by her colleagues that she says culminated in a drunken, physical attack on her by one of her co-workers… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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former client of Michael Avenatti asked a California court Tuesday to force Starr Indemnity & Liability Co. to pay up on a $10 million policy that purportedly covered a private jet seized as part of a criminal case against the embattled attorney… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Tennessee’s high court on Tuesday upheld the disbarment of former Knoxville tort lawyer Loring E. Justice, who allegedly tried to bill more than $100,000 in deposition costs using false invoices after a federal court sanctioned his client’s corporate opponent in a premises liability suit… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom made public for the first time Wednesday the names of individuals who vet state judicial candidates, a list that includes a top Facebook lawyer and attorneys from Boies Schiller Flexner LLP and Cooley LLP, along with more than 100 other lawyers and judges from around the state… Read this piece in its…
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A former California attorney who was disbarred for fleecing his clients pled guilty in Golden State federal court to a criminal charge related to a multiyear scheme in which he allegedly conned several people out of millions of dollars for legal services he never rendered… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 