Legal Ethics: A lawyer’s reputation for honesty is his most valuable tool.

How do you know if your attorney is being truthful about the personal injury case if the office is already under unethical issues?

Wrong-side surgery, the Nursing Obligation

It comes down to simple honesty. If you know the surgeon has committed an unconsented surgery and is covering it up you have an obligation to protect the current and all future patients. Simply put that means your moral obligation is to report the event (never-event) to the hospital administration.

Lawyer Ads that Offend

These videos are on YouTube and I have no idea if they are done by real lawyers or if they were done by others feeding the public’s faulty perception of how they think most lawyers think and behave. Just so you know, 99.99% of us don’t think or act like this.

If Lawyers Were Priests You'd Be In Trouble

In this instance it appears from the editorial that Judge Huscher’s ruling had to do with transferring assets in anticipation of a judgment; a legal concept of which I am familiar. If I understand the sequence of the actions, no one had yet been charged with a crime when the trusts were created and deeds transferred. What should the lawyers have done? Should they have questioned and then accused their client of being a murderer? It’s not reasonable to create ethical duties and obligations that have no practical application or that erode a person’s right to get sound legal advice that carries out the client’s wishes. And what was impliedly suggested does exactly that.