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Ethics For Real Estate Lawyers Today, John G. Cameron Jr., Nancy B. Rapoport
Ethics For Real Estate Lawyers Today, John G. Cameron Jr., Nancy B. Rapoport
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This essay discusses various ethics issues that real estate lawyers experience: everything from new ABA Model Rule 8.4(g) (avoiding discrimination) to rules that apply when a lawyer works from home to technological competence and social media to the attorney-client privilege and to advance conflicts waivers. There is also a social science overlay that discusses why smart people do dumb things.
Recent Case Law On "Coming To The Nuisance", Michael Lewyn
Recent Case Law On "Coming To The Nuisance", Michael Lewyn
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It is well settled that landowners who come to the nuisance (that is, sue another landowner for nuisance even if they moved to the land after the alleged nuisance began) can sometimes recover for nuisance. But is "coming to the nuisance" merely one factor among many in a nuisance case, or is it completely irrelevant? This article concludes that courts adopt the former view in theory, but in recent years have not actually used "coming to the nuisance" to reject a nuisance claim. In other words, the "coming to the nuisance" defense is like a locked-up weapon: courts say they …