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Lawyers admitted to multiple jurisdictions may be subject to different ethical requirements in the different states in which they are licensed to practice law, according to a new ABA ethics opinion.

Jessica Bednarz has spent much of her career representing people, researching access-to-justice issues and using that knowledge to try to find better ways to deliver legal services. That includes using what’s known as “design thinking” for developing client service programs.

The U.S. Supreme Court has dismissed an attorney-client privilege case two weeks after hearing oral arguments.

Updated: A Connecticut judge has declined to sanction a Texas lawyer representing Infowars host Alex Jones for failing to take proper action after his paralegal mistakenly released confidential documents to the opposing counsel.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan told a lawyer representing a tax law firm Monday that his proposed expansive test for protecting documents under attorney-client privilege “is a big ask,” according to coverage of the oral arguments.

Ah, yet another streaming legal drama to review and analyze. Thank you, television gods, for continuing to bestow a fruitful bounty of hourlong installments to fill my column’s coffers.

Mount Vernon lawyer Alvin James Thomas has been disbarred for misappropriating client funds and has admitted that even more money might be missing.

Joseph H. Crabtree, Jr. faces a three year suspension, with one year served on active suspension and the remaining two years on probation, after the Supreme Court found his conduct

The State Bar of California opened 205 disciplinary matters over four decades about lawyer Tom Girardi, who was disbarred in June after he was accused of failing to pay settlement funds to clients in three separate matters.

The ethical principle behind escrow funds is simple—the funds belong to a client or a third party, not the attorney. The attorney, who is a fiduciary, cannot commingle escrow funds...