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Legal Ethics & Professionalism

January 7, 2026

U.S. Fifth Circuit Denies Attorneys’ Fees to ERISA Participant Who Was Precluded from Recovering the Review and Benefits to which He Was Entitled by Failing to Timely Appeal

Written by Steve Herman
December 13, 2025

Arizona Adds Guidance to Rule 3.3 Comments Regarding Potential “Deep Fakes”

Written by Steve Herman
December 8, 2025

ABA Issues Formal Opinion on the Disclosure Permitted, and Not Permitted, Upon Withdrawal from Representation

Written by Steve Herman
September 23, 2025

Southern District of New York Finds Evidence that Reed Smith Was Used to Advance Fraud on Arbitration Panel Traversing Privilege under Crime-Fraud Exception

Written by Steve Herman
July 14, 2025

ABA Issues Formal Opinion regarding Discrimination in Jury Selection (including reliance on Jury Consultants and/or AI)

Written by Steve Herman
July 9, 2025

Northern District of Illinois Allows Financing Company that Purchased Claims Out of Bankruptcy to Pursue Federal Antitrust Claims as a matter of Federal Common Law

Written by Steve Herman
June 22, 2025

Mississippi Supreme Court – Followed by the U.S. Fifth Circuit – Find that a Disinterested Third Party Cannot Purchase a Cause of Action from the Debtor’s Estate

Written by Steve Herman
June 4, 2025

Superior Court in Arizona Sanctions Defendant for Deposition Obstruction

Written by Steve Herman
June 4, 2025

Reversing Friendly Contempt Order, Illinois Appellate Court Admonishes Parties Playing Games in Discovery

Written by Steve Herman
May 10, 2025

Texas Supreme Court Refuses to Apply Texas Anti-Barratry Law to Texas Lawyers Running Cases in Louisiana and Arkansas

Written by Steve Herman