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GUARDIANSHIP OF MELISSA W.

Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Family Law
Father's request for dismissal of grandparents' appeal of guardianship granted, where minor's grandparents sought to circumvent the court's order by...

HUNTER v. WILLIAMS

Civil Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Where an attorney had a good-faith basis for asserting the legal position she propounded, and the district court had an erroneous view of the law, the...

US v. MARTIN

Criminal Law & Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Where defendant's corporate counsel tipped the prosecution to defendant's criminal activity, the attorney-client privilege did not bar the inclusion...

DCH HEALTH SERVICES CORP. v. WAITE

Civil Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Absent the existence of a lawyer-client relationship or other relationship imposing a duty of confidentiality, plaintiffs lacked standing to bring a...

FRAZEE v. SEELY

Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Family Law, Legal Malpractice
In a suit for professional malpractice against attorneys, a court-s refusal to grant plaintiff a continuance to oppose a motion for summary judgment...

MAKINS v. DIST. OF COLUMBIA

Civil Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Labor & Employment Law
DC Court of Appeals certified to determine if a client is bound by a settlement agreement negotiated by her attorney when she has not given the...

BUECHEL, M.D. v. BAIN

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Collateral estoppel bars relitigation of fee arrangements, determined to be illegal in an earlier action, by parties in privity with the person...

WINTERS v. MILLER

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
In a murder case, the failure of defense counsel to raise argument of post-traumatic stress disorder in support of defendant's "defense of others"...

WASHINGTON LEGAL FOUND. v. TEXAS EQUAL ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOUND.

Constitutional Law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
The Texas Interest on Lawyers Trust Accounts program's confiscation of interest earned on client-funds deposited in demand accounts is a per se...

CROWE v. SMITH

Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Sanctions
Where the record lacks clear and convincing evidence that the purpose of the meeting was to have a global settlement conference to include defendants...