We are witnessing the hollowing out of the legal middle class, engineered by technological acceleration but fiercely sustained by an educational cartel.
Courts are increasingly weaponizing the ethical duty of supervision to freeze the adoption of artificial intelligence, effectively protecting the billable hour under the guise of professional responsi...
False Statements, Mass Substitutions, and the Ethics of Attorney Withdrawal at Arnold & Smith Law How a national debt-collection firm’s handling of attorney departures has raised serious questions abo...
False Statements, Mass Substitutions, and the Ethics of Attorney Withdrawal at Arnold & Smith Law How a national debt-collection firm’s handling of attorney departures has raised serious questions abo...
Courts and bar associations are weaponizing ethics rules and sanctions to protect their monopoly against AI innovation, wrapping institutional self-preservation in the guise of consumer protection.
The marble flooring of the appellate moot courtroom at a mid-tier midwestern law school gleams with the kind of institutional permanence that only a massive endowment—or an unbroken pipeline of federa...
Courts and bar associations are weaponizing ethics rules and sanctions to protect their monopoly against AI innovation, wrapping institutional self-preservation in the guise of consumer protection.
Courts and bar associations are weaponizing ethics rules and sanctions to protect their monopoly against AI innovation, wrapping institutional self-preservation in the guise of consumer protection.
Courts and bar associations are weaponizing ethics rules and sanctions to protect their monopoly against AI innovation, wrapping institutional self-preservation in the guise of consumer protection.
Courts and bar associations are weaponizing ethics rules and sanctions to protect their monopoly against AI innovation, wrapping institutional self-preservation in the guise of consumer protection.
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.
As the AI era accelerates, the legal profession is weaponizing ethics rules and sanctions to protect its monopoly. A recent wave of sanctions against lawyers for 'AI hallucinations' isn't about protec...
Quick Facts Who: Spencer Michael Hecht, founding attorney at Hecht & Associates, Rockville, Maryland What: Disbarred by the Maryland Supreme Court for intentional dishonesty and a pattern of misconduc...
From the Thornburgh Memo to the Reno Rules to the McDade Amendment, the Department of Justice has spent four decades trying to exempt its lawyers from state bar discipline. A new proposed rule is the ...
From a Keys attorney who double-booked himself across courthouses to a Texas lawyer convicted of killing two pedestrians, the Florida Supreme Court’s latest disciplinary orders reveal the full spectru...
When 97 percent of a residency program’s physicians trained abroad, in a country where the majority of medical graduates are American-trained, the numbers begin to speak for themselves. A new civil ri...
Ronald Edward Durbin II: The YouTube “Auditor” Who Turned the Practice of Law Into a Weapon How a Tulsa attorney spent fifteen years as a licensed practitioner, reinvented himself as a First Amendment...
By The Ethics Reporter Editorial Board | March 29, 2026 Ariel Mitchell: Miami Attorney Suspended 75 Days for Lying to the Florida Bar, the Courts, and the Press — and the Number That Tells the Real St...
The rules governing attorney trust accounts exist for one reason: to protect clients from the moment their money enters an attorney’s possession until the moment it reaches its intended destination. T...
INTRODUCTION The legal profession has a word for what an attorney does when they cite a case to a court: representation. When a lawyer writes “see Smith v. Jones, 400 F.3d 112 (5th Cir. 2005)” in a br...
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...
The disciplinary case of Emelike Nwosuocha is unlike any other in the Florida Bar’s January 1, 2026 disciplinary cycle — and unlike almost any other in recent memory. On December 11, 2025, the Florida...
John Arthur Leklem, an Orlando litigation attorney who has been licensed to practice law in Florida since 1976, was suspended for 90 days by the Florida Supreme Court following a November 14, 2025 con...