#Legal Ethics

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🇺🇸 Kim Kardashian Loses Bid to Keep $6 Million Settlement With Ray J Private — 10/04/2026 [USA]
The two sides are locked in a court battle over the 2023 deal and statements from the singer that the government is pursuing a criminal case against Kardashian and her mom.
Related: #Celebrity Litigation, #Privacy vs. Transparency
🇺🇸 ‘Two Prosecutors’ Review: Practicing Law in a State of Fear — 19/03/2026 [USA]
Set in the Soviet Union in 1937, this investigative drama follows one man’s mission for justice within a corrupt system.
Related: #Political Repression
🇬🇧 Trump’s Iran war has no ethical or legal grounds | Letters — 17/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
At least in Iraq the Americans had the ‘Pottery Barn rule’: you break it, you own it, writes Prof James Pattison. Plus, letters by Ivette Félix Padilla, Ch...
Related: #Foreign Policy
🇺🇸 Suing over someone else’s beliefs? That doesn’t seem very Christian — 17/03/2026 [USA]
'When will Americans allow all people in this country the freedom of their religious or nonreligious beliefs to be accepted without judgement or hate?,' writes an L.A. Times reader.
Related: #Religious Hypocrisy
🇬🇧 Phillipson accuses lawyers of exploiting parents of children with special needs — 13/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
Education secretary has claimed lawyers’ criticisms of her department’s policy changes are motivated by profitLawyers have been accused of exploiting parents of children with special needs b...
Related: #Special Needs
🇬🇧 High court claimant was fed answers through his smart glasses, judge finds — 13/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
Witness statements by Laimonas Jakštys ‘were clearly prepared by others’, insolvency judge rulesA claimant was being fed answers through his smart glasses while giving evidence in the high c...
Related: #Technology Misuse
🇺🇸 Pardoning Netanyahu Now Would Be Improper, Key Israeli Office Says — 12/03/2026 [USA]
Rebuffing pressure from President Trump, a legal office says the prime minister should be pardoned only if he resigns, confesses or is convicted.
Related: #Political Accountability
🇺🇸 DOJ pardon attorney Ed Martin faces ethics charges over Georgetown DEI threats — 10/03/2026 [USA]
Washington D.C.'s Office of Disciplinary Counsel filed charges against Justice Department pardon attorney Ed Martin over a threatening letter he sent last year to Georgetown University Law Center abou...
Related: #Government Conduct
🇺🇸 DOJ official Ed Martin faces legal ethics charges over ’DEI’ letter — 10/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Government Accountability
🇺🇸 D.C. Bar Begins Disciplinary Proceedings Against Ed Martin — 10/03/2026 [USA]
A new legal filing accused Mr. Martin, a senior Justice Department official, of an unethical pressure campaign against Georgetown University.
Related: #Professional Discipline
🇺🇸 As DOJ lawyers face complaints, agency seeks tighter grasp on state bar ethics probes — 08/03/2026 [USA]
The Justice Department is turning its focus to state bar associations in its quest to clamp down on weaponization of the justice system. As DOJ lawyers face piling complaints, the government is seeki...
Related: #Government Oversight
🇺🇸 Florida Bar denies investigation into Trump lawyer Lindsey Halligan — 07/03/2026 [USA]
The statement from the Florida Bar appears to contradict a letter it issued in February, suggesting a probe.
Related: #Political Law
🇺🇸 Sonny Burton didn’t kill anybody, but Alabama is set to execute him — 06/03/2026 [USA]
The state of Alabama knows that Charles "Sonny" Burton didn’t kill anyone. He wasn’t there when his accomplice in a robbery pulled the trigger. But unless Governor Kay Ivey or the U.S. Supreme Court i...
Related: #Capital Punishment
🇺🇸 Florida Bar Retreats From Statement Saying Lindsey Halligan Was Under Scrutiny — 06/03/2026 [USA]
The Florida bar said that it had “erroneously” made that assertion, disclosed in a letter last month, and that no investigation into Ms. Halligan was pending.
Related: #Professional Oversight
🇺🇸 Lindsey Halligan under investigation by the Florida Bar — 06/03/2026 [USA]
Lindsey Halligan was the interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Related: #Professional Conduct
🇺🇸 Lindsey Halligan being investigated by Florida Bar — 05/03/2026 [USA]
Lindsey Halligan, the ex-U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia who was hand-picked by President Trump to prosecute his political adversaries, is under investigation by Florida’s bar associ...
Related: #Professional Conduct
🇺🇸 Lindsey Halligan Is Under Investigation by the Florida Bar — 05/03/2026 [USA]
The actions of Ms. Halligan, who as a U.S. attorney brought criminal cases against President Trump’s enemies, are under review by the organization that licensed her to practice law.
Related: #Professional Conduct
🇺🇸 Trump Justice Dept. Seeks to Stall State Bar Discipline of Its Lawyers — 04/03/2026 [USA]
The administration has no control over the disciplinary authorities of state bar associations, but a new proposal would let the attorney general ask them to suspend proceedings involving department la...
Related: #Government Accountability, #Professional Discipline
🇺🇸 Supreme Court Lawyer Who Moonlit in High-Stakes Poker Is Convicted of Tax Fraud — 27/02/2026 [USA]
The lawyer Thomas C. Goldstein, who co-founded the SCOTUSblog website, hid millions in gambling income from the government, federal prosecutors said.
Related: #Financial Crime, #Professional Misconduct
🇺🇸 Another alleged narco-trafficking boat destroyed in Pacific as U.S. military strike kills 3 — 21/02/2026 [USA]
The U.S. military carried out another strike against an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Pacific Ocean on Friday, killing three people.
Related: #Military Operations, #Drug Trafficking, #International Relations
🇺🇸 US DOJ lawyer hit with bar complaint over search of reporter’s home — 10/02/2026 [USA] Related: #Press Freedom, #Government Accountability
🇺🇸 Bar Complaint Filed Over Search of Washington Post Reporter’s Home — 09/02/2026 [USA]
A press group says a prosecutor broke ethics rules by not flagging a law that limits searches for reporting materials.
Related: #Press Freedom, #Law Enforcement
🇺🇸 France murder trial complicated by twin brothers with same DNA — 08/02/2026 [USA]
Police have recovered DNA from a weapon but cannot determine which of the brothers used it.
Related: #Criminal Justice, #Forensics
🇺🇸 Nitrogen gas execution date set for man who didn't pull trigger in killing — 06/02/2026 [USA]
Charles "Sonny" Burton was convicted as an accomplice in the shooting death of Doug Battle, a customer who was killed during a robbery of an auto parts store.
Related: #Criminal Justice, #Capital Punishment
🇺🇸 The truth left out from Elon Musk’s recent court filing — 16/01/2026 [USA]
The truth left out from Elon Musk’s recent court filing.
Related: #Corporate Law, #Tech Acquisitions