Legal Ethics Blog
Insights on attorney discipline, professional responsibility, and legal ethics in our nation.
Pennsylvania Judges and Ethics: There’s A Board for That!
April 29, 2022The Pennsylvania Supreme Court https://www.pacourts.us/courts/supreme-court has created a Judicial Ethics Advisory Board. https://www.pacourts.us/news-and-statistics/news/news-detail/1101/supreme-court-of-pennsylvania-announces-membership-of-new-judicial-ethics-advisory-board The Board is populated with a diverse…Process, Procedure and Prosecutorial Misconduct in Stacy Parks Miller Case
March 24, 2019On Feb. 8, former Centre County District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller was suspended from the practice of law for one…The Trump-Manafort Joint Defense Agreement: Urban Legend or Reality?
December 10, 2018Let’s start here: the government begins a grand jury investigation of an organization, say a political campaign. Certain campaign employees…Perils of Joint Representation: Takeaways From the Cynthia Baldwin Matter
December 1, 2018Conflicts and confidences are the ethical tripwires of our profession. What may seem like a reasonable assumption about the alignment…Advice for the President’s New Lawyer: There’s a Rule for That
June 21, 2018As lawyers watching the spectacle of the investigations surrounding the Trump administration, we get to sit in the good seats.…
A Spring Crop of Ethics Issues in Trump’s World
April 9, 2018Despite appearances, it’s spring and Donald Trump and his attorney Michael Cohen have provided us with a brand new crop…Did the President’s Lawyer Cover Up his Client’s Cover-up?
December 6, 2017If you are interested in ethics, white collar crime, and the way they overlap, Christmas has come early this year. …
