ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct: Current Reports Index-Summary

JOURNAL

– Ed. Note: A list of upcoming conferences and meetings appears at the end of selected issues.

JUDGES

– Fee reduction in own divorce case, judge suspended for negotiating while appointing personal lawyer as mediator in cases in his courtroom (Minn.), 528
– Large donation to campaign requires justice to recuse self from case after election (U.S., rvs and rem), 290; impact of decision, Analysis and Perspective, 335; text of ABA Model Code recusal rules, 336; ABA draft report surveys rules and procedures for recusal, 337
– Obstructing judge's questioning of client, lawyer guilty of criminal contempt (6th Cir.), 383
– Reckless accusations against judge, lawyer suspended (Wyo.), 221
– Tax work for judge done for free, lawyer's nondisclosure to opposing counsel not dishonest (Ill.), 332

JURISDICTION

– Malpractice

– – Fla. law firm must defend suit in Ariz. (D. Ariz.), In Brief, 81
– – In-state client referred to Tex. firm, Fla. firm not subject to suit in Tex. (Tex. Ct. App.), 290
– – Mail and e-mails by N.Y. firm into Tex. do not create jurisdiction in state (Tex. Ct. App.), 107
– – Patent-related issues

– – – Personal jurisdiction proper over Canadian law firm that filed patent application in U.S. (Fed. Cir.), 440
– – – Subject matter jurisdiction lacking since patent issues not substantive or disputed (E.D. Mich.), 403

– Unpaid fees, N.C. ruling enforceable against out-of-state clients (S.C.), In Brief, 410

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT (DOJ)

– Practice of law, proposed Haw. definition too broad, FTC and DOJ say, 255
– Professional Responsibility Office, Brown named head, 203
– Trial conduct, judge who dismissed Stevens (R-Alaska) case orders probe of top prosecutors (D.D.C.), 202