Archive for the ‘Legal Ethics’ Category
April 23, 2013
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Via the Toronto Star:
A Toronto criminal lawyer’s Twitter account has sparked outrage online after several offensive tweets were posted in the wake of the Boston bombing.
The tweets were sent last week from Twitter account @Dasilvalaw, which has since been deleted, though several retweets can still be found online.
“I pray for the suspects. May they slay the police army of satan. Death to all police!” reads one posting sent from @Dasilvalaw. Other tweets from that account contained vitriolic responses to offended Twitter users, including “am praying that u get violently raped. May cancer be upon u.!!!”
The lawyer, David Da Silva, 34, said in an emailed response sent Monday to the Star that he is “not the author of any such tweets.”
Asked in a follow-up email if his account had been hacked, the defence lawyer said he is “having this matter investigated at this time.”
Lawyer Nadia Liva, who sent an email to the Star saying she is acting as his counsel, said he is “very concerned” and “we are currently investigating the tweets, which were not authored by Mr. Da Silva.”
I don’t know Da Silva, either personally or professionally, but his website bio is generic: (more…)
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Tags:Law Society of Upper Canada, Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, Toronto Police Association, Toronto Star, Twitter
Posted in Law Society of Upper Canada, lawyer, lawyers, Legal Ethics, legal marketing, professional, professionalism, Rules of Professional Conduct, social media, Twitter | 17 Comments »
April 8, 2013
CONTENT!
Here are some random tweets from the Law Marketing Association 2013 conference using the #LMA13 hashtag:
@SatikZekian: Use relevant keywords in image filenames, separated by dashes not underscores.
@BradNeese: Put together a content editorial calendar.
@Heather_Morse: Search Yahoo Answers for content ideas. Cross check Google to see if anyone is blogging on that.
@BradNeese: Search results: Blue link is title tag; Meta description is description in link.
All thought-leading ideas to optimize your SEO social media law marketing strategy and an effective way to monetize your brand in order to generate leads, drive traffic and improve your Google ranking for your website or blog.
Oh, did I forget to mention CONTENT!?!
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Any questions? Are you content or malcontent with the contents?
Not to worry, new clients should be calling you on your iPhone to retain you in 3-2-1….
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February 5, 2013
This Saturday (February 9th, 2013) mark my 20th year of practice since my call to the Ontario Bar in 1993.
I could take up this post talking about my experiences—my noble victories and my ignoble defeats— and what I have learned over two decades of having the privilege of membership in what I still consider a noble profession.
I could do that, but I won’t. (more…)
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Tags:Law Society of Upper Canada, Rule of law, Warren Buffett
Posted in client, ethics, Law Society of Upper Canada, lawyer, lawyers, learning, Legal Ethics, legal practice, legal profession, professional, professionalism | 8 Comments »
January 8, 2013
Ben Trachtenberg (University of Missouri School of Law) has posted “Law School Marketing and Legal Ethics”, Nebraska Law Review (June 2013) forthcoming/University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-41. Here’s the abstract:
Law schools have misled prospective students for years about the value of legal education. In some cases, law school officials have engaged in outright deceit, knowingly spreading false information about their schools. More commonly, they have presented statistics — especially those concerning the employment outcomes of law graduates — in ways nearly guaranteed to confuse readers. These deceptions and sharp practices violate the norms of the legal profession, a profession that scrupulously regulates the advertising of legal services. The deceptions also violate ethical rules prohibiting lawyers from engaging in dishonesty, misrepresentation, and deceit.
This article exposes how pitches aimed at prospective students, including the seemingly straightforward recitation of statistics on law school websites, still paint an unduly rosy picture of the legal employment market. Focusing on Rule 8.4(c) of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, the article explains that law school officials have exposed themselves to professional discipline, which may offer a solution to the pervasive problem of misleading law school marketing.
Download a pdf copy of the article via SSRN here.
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Tags:American Bar Association, Association of American Law Schools, Education, Law, Law review, Law school
Posted in AALS, ABA, accountability, employment, ethics, law school, law school marketing, legal education, Legal Ethics, legal marketing, legal profession, NALP, scamblogs | Leave a Comment »
December 5, 2012
Embarrassing.
Shameful.
Greedy.
Pull out your Roget’s Thesaurus and take your pick of a panoply of adjectives to describe this story by the CBC’s Kathy Tomlinson: B.C. woman may lose home over huge lawyer bill:
A B.C. woman stands to lose her home to her lawyer, who is moving to foreclose on her to pay his six-figure bill.
“My friends and family say this can’t be happening. There’s got to be a mistake,” Dale Fotsch said.
Fotsch got into the predicament after being sued by her former common-law husband, even though she won the case and the court ordered him to pay her costs.
“I won, but I lost,” Fotsch said. “I defended myself and now I’m losing my place.”
Fotsch, 54, lives near Pemberton with her disabled son and earns a modest income. Her only asset is her home and the 12 hectares of land it sits on.
“I’ve worked two jobs, and I have for the last 25 years,” Fotsch said. “When I was hit with this, it was just like a bomb went off in my life.”
The divorce proceedings were brought by Ms. Fotsch’s common law ex-husband Leigh Wilson who claimed a share of her home (presumably as a matrimonial home) following their break-up. Nine years later, the case resolved, but not in any way she expected. (more…)
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Tags:Beverley McLachlin, British Columbia Court of Appeal, Canada, Fotsch, Lawyer, Supreme Court
Posted in access to justice, Access-to-Justice theory, client, ethics, Integrity, law, lawyer, lawyers, Legal Ethics, legal practice, legal profession, litigation, Litigation Funding, professional, professionalism, proportionality, Rules of Professional Conduct | 4 Comments »
