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Third Party Claims on Trust Funds

By William Wernz posted 01-25-2024
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Quandaries & Quagmires: The 'Single Mistake' Disciplinary Doctrine

By William Wernz posted 01-03-2024
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The lawyer as private investigator: Parsing new ABA Model Rule 1.16(a)

By William Wernz posted 10-13-2023
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What's New in the Thirteenth Edition of Minnesota Legal Ethics

By William Wernz posted 06-05-2023
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“Prosecutorial Misconduct” – A Supplementary Comment

By William Wernz posted 03-21-2023
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A Duty to Disclose What’s Already Known?

By William Wernz posted 01-19-2023
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RULE 4.3(D) - REPEATING ERRORS, ATTRIBUTING SOURCES

By William Wernz posted 09-21-2022
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Quandaries & Quagmires: Professional competence as an ethics obligation

By William Wernz posted 06-29-2022
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CRISIS IN THE PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY SYSTEM (2020 - ?)

By William Wernz posted 04-18-2022
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Quandaries and Quagmires: Do Minnesota prosecutors ‘get away’ with misconduct?

By William Wernz posted 12-01-2021
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Commentary: The need to restore confidence in state's lawyer professional responsibility system

By William Wernz posted 11-12-2021
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What would a discipline office do? Examining the high-profile complaints against election attorneys from a lawyer regulatory perspective

By William Wernz posted 03-15-2021
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Quandaries and Quagmires: When personal relationships create conflicts

By William Wernz posted 12-14-2020
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Quandaries & Quagmires: Attorney as witness: 3 erroneous court orders

By William Wernz posted 12-14-2020
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Quandaries and Quagmires: Law firms must have ethics policies and training

By William Wernz posted 09-29-2020
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Ethics Wake-Up Calls for Supervisory Responsibilities

By William Wernz posted 07-07-2020
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Champerty? No. Litigation Finance? Yes.

By William Wernz posted 06-26-2020
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Successor Counsel and Contingent Fees

By William Wernz posted 06-26-2020
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To Err is Human. What Next?

By William Wernz posted 06-26-2020
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Lawyer Departure Notices – New ABA Opinion

By William Wernz posted 06-26-2020
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