ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct: Current Reports Index-Summary

E-MAIL

– Conflicts of interest, website inviting e-mail from public (N.H. Op.), 467
– Employee privacy in personal e-mail sent to lawyer on company laptop (N.J.), 221
– Leaked messages, flawed response, sanction (W.D. Pa.), 127
– Malpractice, emerging technologies, standards of care, 271
– Reluctant agreement to discount unpaid fees (5th Cir.), 605

EAJA

See EQUAL ACCESS TO JUSTICE ACT (EAJA)

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

– Ed. Note: For a list of selected articles, BNA products, and Internet sources, see back page of each issue.

EMBEZZLEMENT

– Lax supervision of dishonest paralegal, suspension (La.), 293

EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION

– Conflicts of interest

– – Interview of complaining employee, representation of employer after (Me.), 281
– – School board on which firm associate serves as officer, job bias suit against (E.D.N.Y.), 463

– Trial conduct, post-judgment jury probe (10th Cir.), 129

EQUAL ACCESS TO JUSTICE ACT (EAJA)

– Liability insurer covering litigation expenses for prevailing party, eligibility for fee award (7th Cir.), 131
– Offset of award against prior client debts (U.S., rvs and rem), 378

ERISA

– Attorneys' fees, recovery by nonprevailing parties (U.S., rvs and rem), 339
– Nonclients, malpractice liability as fiduciary, Special Report, 183; best practices to limit risk, 184

ESTATES

See WILLS AND ESTATES

EUROPEAN UNION (EU)

– Attorney-client privilege for in-house counsel (Euro. Ct. Justice), 284; denial of privilege upheld, 584

EVIDENCE

– Destroying documents taken from former firm, suspension (Ohio), 539
– Discovery

See DISCOVERY

– Federal rules amendments, approval, 327
– Privileged communications

See PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATIONS
– – Attorney-client

See ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE

– Prosecutorial immunity, fabricating evidence (U.S., dism), 44
– Witnesses

See EXPERT WITNESSES; WITNESSES AND TESTIMONY

EX PARTE COMMUNICATIONS

– Adult ward with guardian ad litem (Wis. Ct. App.), 43
– Enforcement officers, government lawyer duty to prevent (Tex. Op.), 535

EXPERT WITNESSES

– Charging lien, testimony on reasonableness of fees (Fla. Dist. Ct. App.), 466
– Conflicts of interest, former client waiver (Cal. Ct. App.), 465
– Litigation opponent of prior client, firm standing to block (Tex. Ct. App.), 31
– Malpractice, no further inquiry theory (Tenn. Ct. App.), 534
– Prosecutor defamation and false light claims, testimony re ethics standards (Wash. Ct. App.), 97
– Protection of reports, extension, 734
– Unearned fees, suit for return, expert evidence (Tenn. Ct. App.), 339