Partner accused, career damaged; associate implicates Altheimer & Gray lawyer, but bar drops matter
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Illinois is the one state to state unequivocally that attorneys must report unethical conduct by peers or risk being disciplined themselves for failure to report.An Illinois Supreme Court decision, In re Himmel, made this ruling and since then Illinois attorneys have made 580 reports a year of misconduct by colleagues. The Himmel rule has in fact often been triggered by an attorney's suspicion if this suspicion was caused by a document or event that shows circumstantially that serious misconduct has occurred.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1999
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For reshaping privilege - plus; Clinton is leading lawyer in the sage, First Client and law professor-at-large
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Pres Bill Clinton wins the title of the National Law Journal's Lawyer of the Year for 1998 since because of the litigation engendered by 1997-98's Clinton-Lewinsky saga all future presidents will know that the doctrine of executive privilege covers conversations with all of their top aides, including spouses, but will also know that the privilege will generally yields to a demand for evidence from a sitting criminal grand jury.Attorney-client privilege law brought about by the suits is also covered.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1998
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Good reading for the holiday break; maybe the best thing about being a lawyer is that just about everything is relevant
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A reading list for attorneys' vacations is offered. The list is divided into fiction, non-fiction and quirky, and under that the list appears alphabetically by title, with short summaries and evaluations of each book.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1999
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