ethics

March 8, 2017 (Fault Lines) — While working for the New York Times as the paper’s Supreme Court correspondent, Linda Greenhouse won the Pulitzer Prize and embarrassed the paper along the way as well. After leaving...

March 3, 2017 (Fault Lines) — Justice Ginsburg reminds me of my grandmother. My grandmother would have been almost the same age as Justice Ginsburg. She was a first-generation American, born and raised in Manhattan. So,...

December 7, 2016 (Fault Lines) — “Press experts” and “ethicists” are pissed. The Santa Maria, California police department apparently issued a false press release, saying that two men had been arrested in connection with a fraud scheme....

November 28, 2016 (Fault Lines) —  District of Colorado Senior Judge John L. Kane was asked his thoughts about the efficacy of the newly passed ABA Model Rule of Professional Conduct 8.4(g), which provides: It is professional...

November 23, 2016 (Fault Lines) — November every four years brings us an election for top job in the country and representatives locally. It also brings us new laws. In California, the legalization of recreational marijuana...

October 5, 2016 (Fault Lines) — While I have suggested that the Supreme Court “STFU,” Chief Justice Roy Moore of Alabama has openly defied the rulings of the Court while acting as a judge.  Judicial criticism of...

August 8, 2016 (Fault Lines) — Attorneys occasionally whisper about a condition called “black robe syndrome” when discussing judges.  It’s usually mumbled after losing a case in front of a judge and denotes a jurist that...

August 3, 2016 (Fault Lines) — For criminal defense lawyers, it’s our favorite piece of advice, our default, our go-to: just shut up. We write about shutting up incessantly. When we speak about representing clients it’s one...

August 2, 2016 (Fault Lines) – What happens when the police lie in court? Nothing, apparently. But at least we know about it, right? According to the Chicago Tribune, a judge recently found the testimony of...

July 8, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Lisa Sotto, Partner at Hunton & Williams LLP, Mark Seifert, Partner at the Brunswick Group, Donald G. Aplin, Managing Editor of Privacy & Data Security News at Bloomberg BNA and...