Judicial Ethics
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A California state judge agreed Wednesday to accept a public reprimand after being accused of making inappropriate remarks, including telling an African American defendant to stop “shucking and jiving” and boasting about having “the biggest balls in the courthouse”… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A litigation partner at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz has put out a memo that condemned “nonessential” legal actions amid the global pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus, and called on lawyers to keep in mind the difficulties created by the outbreak… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The city of Bayonne, New Jersey, urged a federal court Monday to toss a former city attorney’s wrongful arrest suit, saying the arrest warrant related to the attorney’s failure to appear in court in a neighboring county and had nothing to do with the city… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A Southern California attorney was sentenced to two years behind bars on federal weapons charges in a case stemming from an incident in which he was allegedly found intoxicated in a vehicle containing hard drugs and an arsenal of dangerous devices… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The trustee of bankrupt Lyondell Chemical Co. urged a New York federal court Wednesday to reject an attempt by Brown Rudnick LLP to escape a case accusing the law firm of bungling the trust’s attempt to claw back $300 million in credit line repayments from a private equity mogul… Read this piece in its entirety
Mike LaSusa 