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Florida Bar v. Hall

Administrative Law, Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Legal Malpractice, Professional Malpractice, Sanctions
In an attorney's disciplinary proceedings, arising from forgery and fraudulent recording of a lease agreement and agreement for sale between the...

Purdum v. Holmes

Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In plaintiff's action against a licensed notary for knowingly notarizing a third-party's signature on a deed as if it were plaintiff's, purporting to...

US v. Holstein

Bankruptcy Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, White Collar Crime
Conviction of defendant for bankruptcy fraud and making false statements in bankruptcy petitions, based on providing bankruptcy services at his law...

GSI Commerce Solutions, Inc. v. BabyCenter, L.L.C.

Civil Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
In petitioner's appeal from the district court's order granting a motion to disqualify petitioner's counsel, the order is affirmed where counsel...

Wolfson v. Brammer

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Elections, Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Government Law
In an action by a candidate for judicial office in Arizona, challenging several canons of the Arizona Code of Judicial Conduct (Code) that restricted...

Great W. Mining & Mineral Co. v. Fox Rothschild LLP

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Judges & Judiciary
In plaintiff's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against a law firm and an alternative dispute resolution entity, claiming that its state-court losses were...

In Re: U.S.

Criminal Law & Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Evidence, Judges & Judiciary
In proceedings involving a grant of the government's renewed petition for a writ of mandamus, directing the district court to admit into evidence in a...

In re: Squire

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Evidence, Judges & Judiciary
In proceedings arising from the suspension of a former judge on the county's Domestic Relations and Juvenile Court from practicing law in state of...

Haworth v. Superior Court

Civil Procedure, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Injury & Tort Law, Judges & Judiciary, Professional Malpractice
In a female patient's suit against her physician for negligence in performing plastic surgery on her lip, court of appeal's affirmance of the superior...

Baker v. Simpson

Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice, Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure
In plaintiff's appeal from the denial of his motion to remand his legal malpractice action from a bankruptcy court to state court, the order is...