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Latest News in Legal Ethics

  • November 27, 2024

    Starbucks, Baker Botts Partner Accused Of Defaming Inventor

    An executive for a patent-licensing company that's pursuing infringement litigation against numerous restaurants over a patent that lets customers place mobile orders using a real-time menu that can make personalized suggestions accused Starbucks and its Baker Botts LLP attorney in a lawsuit Wednesday of making defamatory statements about him.

  • November 27, 2024

    Fla. Judge Halts School Board Depos In Book Ban Suit

    A Florida federal judge on Wednesday ordered a partial stay that temporarily halts depositions of Escambia County School Board members in a First Amendment challenge to a ban on certain books, but deferred staying the entire case until an appeal before the Eleventh Circuit is resolved.

  • November 27, 2024

    Dad Can Sue Over Atty Sons' Alleged Fraud In Death Deal

    A Florida appeals court reinstated Wednesday a suit seeking to change terms of a trust agreement regarding a multimillion-dollar wrongful-death settlement amid claims that a Miami attorney and his Morgan & Morgan attorney brother defrauded their father of his rightful share, holding that a fraud claim warrants a second look.

  • November 27, 2024

    Combs Remains Jailed As 4th Judge Declines To Free Mogul

    A Manhattan federal judge declined Wednesday to sign off on a restrictive, $50 million bail package for Sean "Diddy" Combs, following three other judges who refused to order the mogul accused of violent sex-trafficking set free pending trial.

  • November 27, 2024

    Indicted NH Justice Pushes To DQ AG's Office, Nix Charges

    A New Hampshire Supreme Court justice charged with trying to interfere with a criminal investigation into her husband is seeking to have the state attorney general disqualified from prosecuting her and the charges dropped, with a hearing scheduled for Monday.

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