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Is it Unethical to Use “.25” as a Minimum Billing Increment for Lawyer Time?
Rule 1.5(a), of course, requires that a lawyer’s fees and expenses must be “reasonable.” Are minimum billing increments of six, ten, or fifteen minutes “inherently unreasonable" as this client argued? |
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Can a Lawyer Be Disciplined for Not Paying a Court Reporter or Expert?
Sounds like a civil matter for civil court, doesn't it? Maybe, but it's also a matter for the disciplinary system, at least according to this opinion from March 14, 2018 (and another from January 2017). |
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New 2018 Edition of Louisiana Legal Ethics Book
Louisiana Legal Ethics: Standards & Commentary (2018). The new edition of our ethics book in paperback and Kindle editions. What's inside? The Louisiana Rules of Professional Conduct with detailed annotations; selected “professionalism” codes; answers to frequently asked legal ethics questions; and, more. |
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Bartering with Clients
Atticus Finch accepted hickory nuts, wood, and chickens in exchange for legal fees. My lawyer-father was paid in a poodle (we wanted to name her FeeFee). I wonder if they complied with Rule 1.8(a)? |
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Google Search Misdirection is a Misleading Advertising Practice
The Florida Bar Association is considering an amendment to the state’s standards of professional conduct that would prevent the unauthorized use of a lawyer’s name in metadata or Google AdWords to drive organic search results to a different lawyer’s website. Is that practice permissible in Louisiana? |
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New Opinion Advises Against Use of Web Trackers
Another ethics advisory opinion squishes web bugs. Crunch. |
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Judge Sanctioned for Refusing to Perform Same-Sex Marriage Ceremonies
The supreme law of the land as interpreted by the nation’s highest court requires states to recgonize same-sex marriages. A state judge must support and defend the constitution and faithfully apply the law irrespective of the judge’s view of the law’s wisdom or morality. Or else. |
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This Month in Discipline
Who was reprimanded, suspended, and disbarred last month? You can wait for the next LSBA Bar Journal. Or, you can see right now: This Month in Louisiana Lawyer Discipline. |
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