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Accommodation Clients, Douglas R. Richmond
Accommodation Clients, Douglas R. Richmond
Akron Law Review
Accommodation clients typically are the creation of lawyers facing possible disqualification in litigation, although professional discipline and malpractice liability may also be concerns. They are also the creation of courts who believe that slavish adherence to conflict of interest rules sometimes produces unfair results in disqualification disputes. Ethics rules do not distinguish between “primary” clients and accommodation clients. Clients are clients. Or are they?
Should Attorneys Have A Duty To Report Financial Abuse Of The Elderly?, Carolyn L. Dessin
Should Attorneys Have A Duty To Report Financial Abuse Of The Elderly?, Carolyn L. Dessin
Akron Law Review
This Article will therefore put the efficacy issue aside and focus on whether an attorney can and should report suspected abuse under a mandatory reporting statute. Part Two of this article will examine the various states’ approaches to mandatory reporting of abuse. Part Three will explore the various states’ rules governing attorney conduct. Part Four will analyze the interaction of the mandatory reporting provisions with the rules governing attorney conduct. Finally, Part Five will discuss whether requiring attorneys to report suspected elder abuse is desirable.
Inside, Outside: Cross-Border Enforcement Of Attorney Advertising Restrictions, Margaret Raymond
Inside, Outside: Cross-Border Enforcement Of Attorney Advertising Restrictions, Margaret Raymond
Akron Law Review
The question that motivated this paper was three-fold: whether states can regulate this type of cross-border advertising, whether they do, and whether they should...If a state wants to regulate advertising, it wants to regulate all advertising that the state‘s consumers will see, regardless of where it originated or where the lawyers who engaged in it are admitted to practice. Enforcement accordingly advances the interests that are assertedly served by attorney advertising restrictions. A failure to enforce restrictive rules against out-of-state lawyers, by contrast, has a somewhat counterintuitive result.