Legal Ethics

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