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

OF COUNSEL

– Name of firm, ongoing affiliation with licensed attorney must be reflected in of counsel label (Ohio Sup. Ct. Op.), 111

OHIO

– Confidential settlement pact divulged, lawyer faces malpractice and contract claims (Ohio Ct. App.), 162
– Conflicts of interest, waiver derails malpractice suit for representing bank and borrowers (Ohio Ct. App.), 345
– Corporate director, lawyer's service bars firm from suing company (Ohio Sup. Ct. Op.), 321
– Lawyer-witness rule does not apply to pro se attorneys (Ohio Ct. App.), 31
– Malpractice

– – Collectibility of lost judgment must be proven (Ohio), 315
– – Deed transfer leading to increased tax liability, intended will beneficiaries lack standing to sue preparing lawyer (Ohio), 228
– – Opponent medical records, release subjects lawyer to breach of privacy suit (Ohio), 375
– – Settlement of underlying matters, case within case must be proven (Ohio), 426

– Marketing arrangement for living trusts, lawyer suspended (Ohio), 197
– Nonclient lawful claim to client funds triggers lawyer safekeeping duties (Ohio Sup. Ct. Op.), 15
– Of counsel label, ongoing affiliation with licensed attorney must be reflected (Ohio Sup. Ct. Op.), 111
– Transfer of funds from elderly client into accounts payable to lawyer, lawyer suspended (Ohio), 194
– Trust account, lawyer suspended re use to launder nursing home funds (Ohio), 63

OKLAHOMA

– Health care fraud scheme, lawyer disbarred for aiding client efforts to obscure (Okla.), 243
– Liquidated damages clause in fixed-fee multiyear retainer contract not automatically void (Okla.), 372
– Offering to trade legal services for sexual favors, lawyer disbarred (Okla.), 354
– Reinstatement, in-house counsel's long neglect of license warrants penalties before return to bar (Okla.), 147

OREGON

– Legal Servs. Corp., restrictions on legal aid agencies receiving funds constitutional as applied (D. Or.), In Brief, 214
– Malpractice in representation of county, taxpayers lack standing to sue lawyers (Or. Ct. App.), 256

OUT-OF-STATE LAWYERS

– Arbitration proceedings

– – Fees for work done in N.Y. matter, Tex. lawyer may keep (S.D.N.Y.), 136
– – SEC rule change allows representation of parties, 67

– Malpractice

– – Deceptive trade practice act does not apply to practice of law (Ark.), 314
– – Passive Web site does not subject Fla. firm to suit in N.J. (D.N.J.), 208

– Multijurisdictional practice

See MULTIJURISDICTIONAL PRACTICE (MJP)

– Multistate debt collection activities, lawyer suspended (Cal. Bar Ct. Review Dep't), 244
– Pro hac vice admission

See ADMISSION TO THE BAR

– Unauthorized practice

See UNAUTHORIZED PRACTICE OF LAW