Beyond zealous advocacy for his or her client, a lawyer’s duty extends beyond his or her duty to the client. In Ontario, a lawyer must adhere to the Rules of Professional Conduct, which proscribes and describes lawyers conduct. This includes a lawyer’s duty to the court. Recently, in Blake v Blake, 2019 ONSC 4062, Regional Senior Justice Daley, commented on whether counsel breached his duty to the court by not advising the court of a case that he considered to be directly on point with the case before him. In this estates dispute, an estate trustee, in his personal capacity and in his capacity as estate trustee, brought a summary judgment motion to dismiss an application commenced by his...
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Illinois’ rural lawyers are disappearing. The uneven distribution of practicing attorneys in the state is startling. Cook County represents 40% of the state’s population and over 70% of its lawyers. Cook County and its six collar counties account for 65% of the state’s population and 90% of its lawyers. That leaves 95 counties in Illinois with just 10% of its lawyers. The lack of rural lawyers in Illinois is becoming more pronounced by the year, according to the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Access to Justice. As the rural lawyer population throughout much of the state declines, locating legal aid is becoming increasingly difficult for citizens in need. Shrinking Numbers Across...
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INX Media case: The Special CBI court has extended the CBI remand of former Finance Minister P Chidambaram by four more days in relation to the INX Media case. He will now be produced before the court on August 30. Representing Chidambaram, senior lawyer and Congress leader Kapil Sibal had contended extending his client's remand on grounds that the probe agencies do not have any new evidence. In response to this, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta responded that the Enforcement Directorate has found new evidence which needs to be interrogated. Earlier today, the Supreme Court dismissed Chidambaram's appeal against the Delhi High court order, denying an anticipatory bail in the CBI case. The...
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Lawyer: FBI involved in VA hospital deaths investigation The FBI is involved in an investigation of suspicious deaths at a Veterans Affairs hospital in West Virginia, according to a lawyer for the estate of a Vietnam veteran who died at the facility. Attorney Tony O’Dell said Thursday that his client and others have indicated the bureau is involved in investigating the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg. O’Dell represents the estate of Army Sgt. Felix Kirk McDermott. He’s filed notice of a pending lawsuit that says the 82-year-old was wrongly injected with a fatal dose of insulin at the hospital in April 2018. The death was ruled a homicide. As many as 11 suspicious deaths...
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Bill Graham: Catawba tribe’s resort is much-needed in Charlotte region Maybe once in a generation, if it’s lucky, a community gets a shot at landing an economic game-changer: the textile mills of old, car plants, banking centers, major-league sports, or corporate headquarters such as Food Lion. Our region has just such a rare and enormous opportunity within sight now: the planned Catawba Resort and Casino in Kings Mountain. The resort would bring private investment of more than half a billion dollars, employ more than 4,000 people, attract thousands of tourists each week and spur job growth throughout the Charlotte area. As a lawyer, local business owner, and former member of the board of...
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The push for a $15 minimum wage continues. On Labor Day, it’s a tradition to try to sum up conditions for the American worker — and in a year before a presidential campaign, this is often done with the incumbent’s re-election prospects in mind. Donald Trump’s economic record, as of this Labor Day, is a mixed bag, albeit a bright spot in the administration’s otherwise-unblemished record of tarnishing race relations, the environment — and, indeed, most of what it touches. The unemployment rate is 3.7%, average job growth since he arrived in the White House is 183,500 per month, and median household incomes are up around 12% since he took office, even as faster gains (and bigger tax cuts) at...
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The number of new job openings for executive managers within the legal profession increased by 54.8% in the year to 31 August 2017, according to the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo). This is despite the fact that overall vacancies within the sector rose by just 1.8% during the same period. Demand for practicing lawyers, meanwhile, dipped by 4.4%. While new openings for lawyers specialising in family law increased by 27.9%, demand for personal injury lawyers, corporate specialists and real estate lawyers all decreased (by 14.1%, 13.5% and 9% respectively). Elsewhere, demand for marketers and PR professionals to work within the sector increased by 18.8% while new...
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