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Zealous Advocacy: Five Types of Advocates and How it Can all go Terribly Wrong

September 9, 2013 by M Walter 1 Comment

I can hear my law professor screaming about that title right now. She hated the term ‘zealous advocacy.’ As an attorney in training, I only had some very vague idea of why ‘zealous advocacy’ might not be the best possible term. The preamble to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct (MPR) does mention zealous advocacy.…

Filed Under: Columns, Lawyer Tagged With: attorney ethics, legal ethics, settlement, trial, Unethical & Amoral

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Lawyer Learns He Cannot Charge Client for Sex – or – "I Ho, I Ho, So Off to Work I Go"

January 15, 2013 by Bitter Newsroom 2 Comments

Attorney invoices time spent having sex with client as “meetings” and “drafting memos.” I Ho, I Ho, so off to work I go . . .

Filed Under: Lawyer, News & Views Tagged With: attorney ethics, gigolo, hooker, prostitution, suspension, Thomas P. Lowe, TN12

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