The Virginia State Bar’s Standing Committee on Legal Ethics again has tweaked its proposed revisions of the rules that govern lawyer advertising. The most substantive change is elimination of an earlier proposal to require lawyers to retain copies of their electronic advertising for a year. Ethics Counsel Jim McCauley said the committee received many comments [...]
Entries from August 2011
Proposed advertising rules tweaked
August 1st, 2011 · Comments Off · Ethics, Virginia State Bar
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Prosecutor urges 18-month sentence for lawyer’s insurance fraud
August 1st, 2011 · Comments Off · Fraud, personal injury
Saying the motive appeared to be “pure greed,” a federal prosecutor recommends at least a year and a half behind bars for a former Maryland lawyer who admitted padding his own personal injury claim with phony medical records. Ryan Lahuti was accused in connection with the alleged long-established Washington-area practice of recruiting auto accident victims [...]
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