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The Bard of Avon expressed a variety of views on the legal profession.
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Webster’s Dictionary defines “zeal” as “eagerness and ardent interest in pursuit of something.” Zeal has initiated much debate among legal professionals. What does it mean to be a zealous advocate? Is zealous advocacy even permissible in today’s practice of law?
The Seventh Circuit affirmed a district court’s ruling that a debtor-in-possession (DIP) lender had breached its financing agreement, barring its claim for commitment and funding fees from the DIP. [1] Although the DIP itself had also breached the agreement, that breach was not, in the court’s view, effective until after the len
The Professional Ethics Committee for the State Bar of Texas recently issued Opinion No. 603 regarding a lawyer’s duties when he or she represents an insolvent corporation.
Social media transformed the way people communicate and interact with one another.
In a rare opinion addressing ethical and disclosure issues in the solicitation of official committees of unsecured creditors, the court in In re Universal Building Products [1]denied the applications of two proposed counsel for the committee in the case.
Many cases have dealt with bankruptcy petitions filed in “bad faith.” Typically, a party in interest seeks to simply have the petition dismissed, and seeks no further relief. Infrequently, however, a party may make the difficult decision to seek the imposition of sanctions against a bad faith filer and his or her counsel to deter future abuse of the Bankruptcy Code.
For the past several months, the American Bar Association’s Commission on Ethics 20/20 (ABA) has been soliciting commentary on various ethics issues involving lawyers’ use of the Internet as an information-gathering device. [1] The Internet, dubbed the “information superhighway” in the early 1990s, is commonly used by attorneys to gather
Whether it is discovery, pleadings or transactions, lawyers produce enough pages to fill countless file cabinets. As a means of alleviating the cost associated with additional physical storage space, attorneys have turned to digital storage solutions for client files, including confidential information.
On November 18, 2010, Judge Gerber of the Southern District of New York Bankruptcy Court issued a decision on payment of non-fiduciary professional fees in In re Adelphia Communications Corp. [1] The Court allowed a number of distressed investors to be reimbursed for legal fees and other expenditures spent in competing for large
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