Legal Ethics Roundup: Judges Critique Lawyer Lies, CA Won't Expunge Discipline, AG Attacks On ESG As Ethics Violations, AI Keeps Hallucinating Legal Opinions & More - Above the Law
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Legal Ethics Roundup: Judges Critique Lawyer Lies, CA Won't Expunge Discipline, AG Attacks On ESG As Ethics Violations, AI Keeps Hallucinating Legal Opinions & More - Above the Law
"Federal prosecutors and lawyers 'are lying to the federal courts,' and President Donald Trump and top officials are 'trashing individual judges,' retired Judge J. Michael Luttig, a George H. W. Bushappointee to the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, said at a Wednesday event in Washington. In some cases, 'you are wondering whether or not the information being given by the component of the action is accurate, and you're asking for details to follow up,"
"Over the past eighteen months, I've been immersed in multiple collaborative endeavors with more than a dozen different coauthors. Some are updates to older casebooks and treatises, but two projects are new casebooks, one which hit the shelves last week. Rocky Rhodes (Missouri) and I are thrilled to release into the world our casebook Constitutional Law: Foundations, Interpretations, and Commentaries (West Academic). We are especially grateful to our publisher Louis Higgins, who suggested we work together."
Multiple collaborative legal projects over eighteen months involved more than a dozen coauthors, including updates to older casebooks and treatises and two new casebooks. Rocky Rhodes and Renee Knake Jefferson released Constitutional Law: Foundations, Interpretations, and Commentaries (West Academic). The publication credited publisher Louis Higgins for suggesting the collaboration. Headlines flagged concerns about government lawyers making false statements in court and political attacks on judges. Retired judges J. Michael Luttig and Paul Grimm reported that federal prosecutors and lawyers 'are lying to the federal courts' and that courts sometimes receive 'gibberish' when seeking accurate information. A study by nonpartisan legal journal Just Security was noted.
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