Law schools continue to charge prestige-level tuition for a credential whose foundational economic assumptions are collapsing under the weight of generative AI and staggering student debt.
Part 7 of The Ethics Reporter's 10-part investigation into Rockland County Acting Supreme Court Justice David Fried.
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The recent Sullivan & Cromwell AI scandal shatters the legal establishment's favorite myth: that AI hallucinations are only a danger to "sloppy" solo practitioners. The elite firewall failed, proving ...
The recent surge in court sanctions and state bar ethics opinions targeting lawyers for AI "hallucinations" has nothing to do with protecting the judicial record. It is a desperate act of institutiona...
Despite record-high tuition and crushing student debt, NALP and ABA data reveal a shrinking job market for new lawyers. With AI automating the entry-level work that traditionally justified hiring gree...
Courts and state bars are using 'ethics' and 'candor' rules to disproportionately punish lawyers who use AI. It's not about client protection—it's an institutional immune response to protect the billa...
AIPAC and its super PAC spent $126.9 million in the 2023–2024 cycle — the largest foreign-interest lobbying expenditure in American political history. This is Part 1 of a 7-part series mapping every d...
A confidential source with personal knowledge tells The Ethics Reporter that twice-disbarred attorney Tony Diab is involved in operating Everest Law PC — a Utah-registered debt-relief law firm that wa...
Tony Diab allegedly stole $250 million from 60,000 vulnerable consumers using a rented law license, then allegedly tried to hide the evidence in bankruptcy court. Three-plus years later: no criminal c...
Six actionable lessons from the collapse of 777 Partners and the federal prosecution of Joshua Craig Wander: why prestige suppresses due diligence, why self-sufficiency claims are a red flag, what the...
Over 1,300 lawyers have now been sanctioned for AI-generated errors in court filings — and the punishments keep escalating, from small fines to $109,700 penalties to license suspension recommendations...
Learn how the legal ethics complaint process works in 2026 — from filing a bar complaint to disciplinary hearings, disbarment, and what happens to the attorney.
On March 25, 2026, a Florida appellate court warned about AI use in legal filings, framing it as accuracy enforcement. But what the court is actually doing is institutional gatekeeping—using disclosur...
The Ethics Reporter Sends Open Letter to All 201 U.S. Law School Deans The Ethics Reporter has formally written to every dean of every ABA-accredited law school in the United States, demanding answers...
When Simone Melissa Gold entered the United States Capitol building on January 6, 2021, she was a licensed physician and a licensed attorney two credentials that together represent years of education...
How a California Family Law Attorney Stole Nearly $5 Million from Clients, Fabricated Bank Records, and Ultimately Lost Her License in Two States INTRODUCTION In the world of legal ethics, few violati...
On Wednesday, February 4, 2026, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department disbarred attorney Jamie T. Ferrara. The disbarment was based on Ferrara’s failure to coopera...
On Wednesday, February 18, 2026, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department granted a motion to disbar attorney Terrance J. Dougherty. Martindale The disbarment was not...
On Thursday, March 5, 2026, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Judicial Department disbarred attorney Lamon Darrell Bland, effective immediately. Wikipedia The disbarment was not th...
Anthony Michael Pastel, a former assistant public defender in Columbia and Greene Counties in upstate New York, was automatically disbarred by the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court in M...
Teresa Schiele Roper, an Apopka attorney with more than 35 years of practice in workers’ compensation, civil litigation, and local government law, was suspended from the Florida Bar following a felony...