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Latest News in Legal Ethics

  • June 29, 2026

    Former NJ AG Pushes To End Suit Over Tossed RICO Case

    Former New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin asserts that a lawsuit from a former CEO indicted in New Jersey's now-dismissed criminal racketeering case against South Jersey power broker George E. Norcross III squarely implicates the protections afforded to prosecutors.

  • June 29, 2026

    Fish & Richardson Faces DQ Bid In Texas Patent Suit

    A company that accused LVMH of infringing its nonfungible tokens display technology patents says Fish & Richardson PC should be blocked from representing the luxury goods giant because the firm met with the patent owner in the past.

  • June 29, 2026

    Embattled Ga. Judge Faces Growing Wave Of Recusal Motions

    A Georgia federal judge who recused herself this month from presiding over the U.S. Department of Justice's election records dispute with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is facing the fallout of being reprimanded as multiple parties ask that she be disqualified from presiding over their matters.

  • June 29, 2026

    Tax Attys Cite Justices' Venue Ruling In Seeking 4th Circ. Redo

    A father-daughter attorney duo is asking the full Fourth Circuit to rethink their convictions in a $22 million tax avoidance scheme, arguing a U.S. Supreme Court decision that came down just two days after a panel affirmed their guilty verdicts supports their argument that prosecutors pursued charges in the wrong state.

  • June 29, 2026

    DC Ethics Counsel Conflicted In Ethics Case, DOJ Atty Says

    A former interim U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., is urging the D.C. federal court to disqualify the District of Columbia ethics counsel from pursuing an ethics case against him, arguing that the attorney and another lawyer from his office are conflicted and that their impartiality is in question.

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