Ohio State University Law Professor Deborah Jones Merritt did some research and found out that about 25 percent of attorneys admitted to the bar in 2010 weren’t practicing law at…
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Utah may be the first state in the nation to create an Internet registry for white collar criminals convicted of fraud. According to the Salt Lake Tribune, the registry will…
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If you want to keep up with the latest legal issues surrounding the Internet, the Electronic Foundation Frontier (www.EFF.org) is a pretty good site to bookmark and check regularly. One…
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On Jan. 20, Pulaski County Circuit Judge Herbert T. Wright, Jr. signed an order finding Arkansas’ criminal eviction statute unconstitutional. That’s been reported more than a few times over the…
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A story the Associated Press (AP) ran about a popular smartphone app serves as yet another reminder that technological advances often raise legal issues that courts will have to struggle…
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The Iowa State Bar Association released an opinion cautioning attorneys against calling each other unethical. Arkansas attorneys might want to pay attention to what the Iowa State Bar had to…
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Ever since I was in college in the 1980s, it seems that the popular notion was that there are too many licensed attorneys running loose. The notion, of course, is…
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As anyone who has been paying attention knows by now, the Democrats took a severe beating in the 2014 mid-term elections. Republicans now control both houses of Congress, thus triggering…
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One of the more frustrating things about being a lawyer is trying to explain to clients that “legally right” and “morally right” are not always the same. In other words,…
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The Arkansas Times blog, last month, posted an article about a nasty postcard being mailed around about Clarke Tucker, a Little Rock lawyer and Democrat running for House District 35. The…
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