Legal Ethics

A Baltimore judge faces a hearing in May to resolve ethics allegations that he inappropriately touched a female lawyer following a bar association event at the Maryland Club last year. Judge Kevin M. Wilson is accused of inappropriate behavior after the event in May 2023, which was sponsored by the Bar Association of Baltimore City

A federal judge declined to disqualify an attorney accused of paying for his client’s living expenses, an alleged violation that will be referred to the Disciplinary Committee for further evaluation. U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania held that the issue of counsel paying for their client’s living expenses didn’t warrant

A federal judicial ethics probe into former U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David Jones’ failure to disclose his romantic relationship with a lawyer whose firm regularly appeared before him has come to an end following the Houston judge’s resignation. The chief judge of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Priscilla Richman, in an order on Wednesday