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Legal Ethics
Legal Ethics Law360 provides breaking news and analysis on legal malpractice cases and attorney misconduct. Coverage includes criminal allegations, disciplinary actions, and recusals involving attorneys and judges, as well as legal rules and standards.
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Latest News in Legal Ethics
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July 30, 2025
2nd Circ. Backs Live Well Founder's Bond Fraud Convictions
The Second Circuit affirmed convictions for Live Well's founder for inducing lenders to extend credit by jacking up bond valuations to increase its debt and borrow against it, ruling Wednesday jurors had enough evidence to determine he misrepresented the value of collateral to secure loans and did so with fraudulent intent.
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July 30, 2025
High Court Urged To Review Ineffective-Counsel Case
A man who threatened to sue his civil lawyer for malpractice has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up his case and find that such a situation creates an automatic conflict of interest when the same lawyer was also defending him in a criminal case.
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July 30, 2025
TMX Customers Seek Final OK Of $42M Data Breach Suit Deal
Customers of the title loan and payday lender TMX Finance have asked a Georgia federal judge to grant聽final approval of their $42 million settlement of claims arising from a聽data breach that affected an estimated 4.8 million people.
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July 30, 2025
Insurer Atty 'Error' Dooms Arbitration Bid In Fla. Injury Suit
A Florida appellate court on Wednesday agreed with a trial court that a West Palm Beach prep school has abandoned its right to arbitrate cheerleading injury claims brought by a student by filing a response to the complaint, rejecting the school's argument that its insurer-provided lawyer was unauthorized to represent it.
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July 30, 2025
Workday Wants Firm DQ'd Over Privileged Info In Atty's Suit
Attorneys at Webb Law Group APC should be disqualified from representing an ex-Workday Inc. attorney in his bias suit against the company and should face sanctions for their "egregious behavior" in disclosing privileged information in a publicly filed document, Workday told a California federal magistrate judge.
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