In October 2023, Westchester County Supreme Court Justice Robert S. Ondrovic ordered a divorcing wife to pay $45,000 in interim counsel fees to her husband — without the evidentiary foundation New Yor...
Sarah Chen opens an acceptance letter to law school on a Tuesday morning in March 2026, hopeful and unaware. What she doesn't know: she's entering a profession in crisis. Recent ABA data shows the num...
Michael Torres sits in law school surrounded by case books, his parents' house being seized by the bank to pay his tuition. He's doing everything right. He'll still be paying off law school debt well ...
In January 2024, Judge David Rodriguez made inappropriate comments suggesting that a sexual harassment victim had invited her own harassment. No investigation. No discipline. This is not exceptional. ...
Jennifer Voss built an AI platform to help people navigate legal document preparation affordably. The Illinois Bar Association shut it down. Two thousand people lost access to a competent service. The...
Sarah Chen stared at her law school diploma in the morning light of her apartment in Somerville, framed in oak and gilt letters proclaiming the word "Juris Doctor." She was three months out of law sch...
O n a Tuesday afternoon in March 2019, Brandon Mitchell sat in a Houston courtroom and watched a prosecutor stand before the jury and claim that there was no ev...
Bar associations and courts are weaponizing ethics rules and unauthorized practice of law statutes to protect lawyer income, wrapping professional gatekeeping in the guise of consumer protection while...
Law schools are systematically overcharging students for a credential that has become increasingly devalued. In the age of AI, the law school pipeline is collapsing—yet institutions continue to charge...
A growing body of AI-generated evidence — from facial recognition identifications to risk assessment scores — is entering American criminal courts without the procedural safeguards the Constitution de...
The American legal system has created a stunning contradiction: courts are destroying private lawyers for inadvertent AI hallucinations while the federal government works to exempt prosecutors from an...
Bar associations are deploying ethics rules ostensibly designed to protect clients as a cudgel against the adoption of legal technology. The result is systematic institutional resistance to innovation...
Law schools train people for a profession that no longer exists, while refusing to teach the skills that actually matter: client interviews, negotiation, business judgment, and AI literacy.
We are witnessing the hollowing out of the legal middle class, engineered by technological acceleration but fiercely sustained by an educational cartel.
Courts are increasingly weaponizing the ethical duty of supervision to freeze the adoption of artificial intelligence, effectively protecting the billable hour under the guise of professional responsi...
False Statements, Mass Substitutions, and the Ethics of Attorney Withdrawal at Arnold & Smith Law How a national debt-collection firm’s handling of attorney departures has raised serious questions abo...
Courts and bar associations are weaponizing ethics rules and sanctions to protect their monopoly against AI innovation, wrapping institutional self-preservation in the guise of consumer protection.
The marble flooring of the appellate moot courtroom at a mid-tier midwestern law school gleams with the kind of institutional permanence that only a massive endowment—or an unbroken pipeline of federa...
Courts and bar associations are weaponizing ethics rules and sanctions to protect their monopoly against AI innovation, wrapping institutional self-preservation in the guise of consumer protection.
Courts and bar associations are weaponizing ethics rules and sanctions to protect their monopoly against AI innovation, wrapping institutional self-preservation in the guise of consumer protection.
Law schools continue to charge prestige-level tuition for a credential whose foundational economic assumptions are collapsing under the weight of generative AI and staggering student debt.
As the AI era accelerates, the legal profession is weaponizing ethics rules and sanctions to protect its monopoly. A recent wave of sanctions against lawyers for 'AI hallucinations' isn't about protec...
Quick Facts Who: Spencer Michael Hecht, founding attorney at Hecht & Associates, Rockville, Maryland What: Disbarred by the Maryland Supreme Court for intentional dishonesty and a pattern of misconduc...
From the Thornburgh Memo to the Reno Rules to the McDade Amendment, the Department of Justice has spent four decades trying to exempt its lawyers from state bar discipline. A new proposed rule is the ...
From a Keys attorney who double-booked himself across courthouses to a Texas lawyer convicted of killing two pedestrians, the Florida Supreme Court’s latest disciplinary orders reveal the full spectru...
When 97 percent of a residency program’s physicians trained abroad, in a country where the majority of medical graduates are American-trained, the numbers begin to speak for themselves. A new civil ri...
Ronald Edward Durbin II: The YouTube “Auditor” Who Turned the Practice of Law Into a Weapon How a Tulsa attorney spent fifteen years as a licensed practitioner, reinvented himself as a First Amendment...
By The Ethics Reporter Editorial Board | March 29, 2026 Ariel Mitchell: Miami Attorney Suspended 75 Days for Lying to the Florida Bar, the Courts, and the Press — and the Number That Tells the Real St...
The rules governing attorney trust accounts exist for one reason: to protect clients from the moment their money enters an attorney’s possession until the moment it reaches its intended destination. T...
INTRODUCTION The legal profession has a word for what an attorney does when they cite a case to a court: representation. When a lawyer writes “see Smith v. Jones, 400 F.3d 112 (5th Cir. 2005)” in a br...