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| The Florida Commission on Ethics addresses conflict issues presented by a lawyer who is an employee/general counsel of a health facilities authority and a principal in her private law firm . . . (more) 8/6/08 | Lawyers seeking fee awards are reminded to introduce evidence supporting the reasonableness of the fees for all lawyers and paralegals involved . . . (more) 8/6/08 | |
| A trial court erred in ordering that an attorney's charging lien may be executed against the former client's homestead property* . . . (more) 8/4/08 | A trial court exceeded its authority by granting a charging lien and ordering a client's assets frozen to pay the attorneys' fees* . . . (more) 8/4/08 | |
| The Florida Bar Board of Governors approves an Florida Ethics Opinion 07-2 concerning outsourcing legal work to foreign countries* . . . (more) 7/31/08 | A judge of compensation claims has no authority to award interest on attorney's fees from the date of a workers' compensation award* . . . (more) 7/31/08 | |
| The Third DCA addresses when defendant may withdraw a prior plea due to trial counsel's alleged failure to advise of possible immigration consequences of the plea* . . . (more) 7/29/08 | The Justice Administrative Commission may not be ordered to pay court-appointed counsel for an indigent, non-parent legal custodian in a dependency proceeding* . . . (more) 7/29/08 | |
| A trial court's order enforcing a settlement agreement is reversed due to lack of evidence that counsel had "clear and unequivocal" authority to settle* . . . (more) 7/24/08 | An appeals court reversed summary denial of postconviction ineffective assistance claims based on alleged misadvice about consequences of a guilty plea and about a motion to suppress* . . . (more) 7/24/08 | |
| A trial court erred in not conditionally sealing financial records of a doctor whose practice is limited to treating patients involved in personal injury litigation* . . . (more) 7/21/08 | A postconviction motion based on the court's failure to advise of the deportation consequences of a plea must allege that the plea was the only basis for deportation* . . . (more) 7/21/08 | |
| The offer of judgment statute and rule permit an award of attorney's fees even if the underlying contract does not contain an attorney's fees provision* . . . (more) 7/17/08 | An order granting a motion to confirm an arbitration award was not a final "judgment" for purposes of an attorney's fee award under Fla.R.Civ.P. 1.525* . . . (more) 7/17/08 | |
| The Florida Supreme Court amends the Rules of Judicial Administration concerning judicial disqualification motions* . . . (more) 7/15/08 | The Fourth DCA quashes an order disqualifying a lawyer from opposing a former client* . . . (more) 7/15/08 | |
| The Florida Bar Professional Ethics Committee reaffirms an opinion on the duties of a lawyer whose criminal defense client is proceeding under a false name* . . . (more) 6/23/08 | The Florida Bar asks the Florida Supreme Court to amend advertising rules governing lawyer and law firm websites . . . (more) 2/27/08 | |
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