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

OBLIGATIONS TO THIRD PERSONS

– Private investigators, potential pitfalls when hiring, 352

OHIO

– Appearing in debt case for client's daughter without her knowledge, suspension (Ohio), 237
– Appellate public defender, attacking work of trial public defender (Ohio Sup. Ct. Op.), 536
– Attorney-client privilege, self-defense exception, suit between firm and ex-client (Ohio), 596
– Billing for outsourced services (Ohio Sup. Ct. Op.), 12
– Bootleg DVDs, concealing pending lawsuit in bar application (Ohio), 317
– Destroying documents taken from former firm, suspension (Ohio), 539
– Downloading porn, suspension after conviction (Ohio), 540
– Good faith pursuit of flawed strategy, unlawful conduct (Ohio), 102
– Interview notes, sharing with client (Ohio Sup. Ct. Op.), 261; other state rules, survey, 261
– Malpractice

– – Botched union negotiations, federal jurisdiction (S.D. Ohio), 426
– – Fraud in inducement, client renouncing settlement (Ohio), 742
– – Withdrawal of disciplinary grievance as part of settlement (Ohio Sup. Ct. Op.), 408

– Name of firm, reference to practice area (Ohio Sup. Ct. Op.), 133
– Open-ended power of attorney in contingent fee agreement (Ohio Sup. Ct. Op.), 640
– Prescriptions written without physician license, suspension after multiple convictions (Ohio), 292
– Prosecutors, disclosure duty (Ohio), 137
– Social networking sites, judges becoming friends with lawyers appearing before them (Ohio Sup. Ct. Op.), 752

OKLAHOMA

– Public indecency conviction, reprimand (Okla.), 235
– Reinstatement

– – Maintaining bankruptcy office in state where not licensed, unauthorized practice (Okla.), 386
– – Shedding tax debt by filing bankruptcy (Okla.), 580
– – Suspended lawyer performing business tasks for corporate employers (Okla.), 644

– Unauthorized practice, nonlawyer research center within lawyer's office, reprimand (Okla.), 614

OREGON

– Advice leading client to seize pot clinic, suspension (Or.), 472
– Contingent fee contract failing to provide statutory explanation, enforceability (D. Or.), 336; template for explanation, 337
– Deposition subpoena, direct contact with represented witness, reprimand (Or.), 411
– Former-client conflict, deceased client, suspension (Or.), 502
– Malpractice, split post-conviction results (Or. Ct. App.), 699

OUT-OF-STATE LAWYERS

– Admission to bar, law school accreditation requirement, out-of-state lawyer with lengthy exemplary record (Utah), 125
– Bar exam not required for in-state law school graduates, challenge to Wis. rule, settlement (W.D. Wis.), 206; state court vote to keep privilege, 616
– Division of fees (Ariz. Op.), 409
– Federal immigration practice, office in state (Alaska Op.), 383
– In-house counsel, N.Y. Bar proposal, 704; text, 704
– Malpractice, affidavit of merit requirement in suit against out-of-state firms (N.J. Super. Ct. App. Div.), 372
– National law firm, branch office staffed by in-state lawyer (R.I.), 62
– Occasional work in law firm in-state office (Tex. Op.), 342
– Signing pleadings on behalf of another (Va.), 573
– Supervision failure, co-counsel, reprimand (Ind.), 582
– Unauthorized practice, inactive lawyer using MJP rule, suspension (N.M.), 469