January 22, 2021 at 3:02 PM
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After spinning yarns about Hugo Chavez running Canadian-based Dominion Voting from beyond the grave to flip votes a claim that even OAN is now running from Team Kraken is now facing Rule 11 sanctions in Michigan for adopting a litigation strategy based on theories that the toaster has been yelling at them every morning. Earlier this month, the City of Detroit filed a motion for sanctions and requesting the court refer the seven attorneys involved including Sidney Powell and Lin Wood to their local bars for disciplinary action after growing tired of serving as the punching bag in the lawsuit against Michigan officials based on wild innuendo.
January 20, 2021 at 2:32 PM
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What finer coda to the Trump administration’s orgy of corruption than an executive order rescinding ethics restrictions on lobbying in the final hours? Aaron Sorkin could not have scripted it better.
On January 28, 2017, eight days into his term, President Trump signed Executive Order 13770 governing Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Employees. In fulfillment of Trump’s campaign promise to “drain the swamp,” employees would sign a pledge not to lobby their agencies for five years after leaving government service. They’d permanently give up their right to lobby for any foreign government. And they’d pinky swear to refrain from dealing with old clients, with former lobbyists vowing “I will not for a period of 2 years after the date of my appointment participate in any particular matter on which I lobbied within the 2 years before the date of my appointment or participate in the specific issue area in which that particular matte
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At our 2020 Annual Ethics for In-House Counsel Seminar in December, we addressed Legal Ethics in the Time of COVID-19. That presentation was through the framework of ABA Formal Ethics Opinion 482, Ethical Obligations Related to Disasters (Sept. 19, 2018). Although ABA Formal Opinion 482 focuses on natural disasters such as hurricanes, floods, tornados and the like, it is also applicable to COVID-19 as a slow-moving disaster. One of the issues raised in ABA Formal Opinion 482 is the Unauthorized Practice of Law (”UPL”).
Shortly thereafter, on December 16, 2020, the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility issued Formal Opinion 495, which addresses the reality of lawyers working remotely during the pandemic. ABA Formal Opinion 495 provides common sense direction to lawyers, who have either chosen or been forced to carry on remotely their practice of law of the jurisdiction(s) in which they are
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