http://blogs.law.yale.edu/blogs/reference/archive/tags/Ethics/default.aspxTags: EthicsenCommunityServer 2007.1 SP1 (Build: 30415.43)http://blogs.law.yale.edu/blogs/reference/archive/2008/04/15/the-law-library-of-congress-comes-through-again.aspxTue, 15 Apr 2008 15:28:00 GMT3dba5dbf-cc88-412d-a5e1-dc96318a2d17:137John Nann0<p>One of the great early American examples of a lawyer ensuring that unpopular defendants got a fair trial, even defendants with whom the lawyer may have disagreed took place in Boston in 1770.&nbsp; The lawyer was John Adams and the defendants were the British soldiers who were accused of murder from their involvement in the Boston Massacre of March 5, 1770.</p><p>&nbsp;The Law Library of Congress has <a href="http://www.loc.gov/law/help/rare-books/john_adams.html">posted</a> copies of three published accounts of the records and transcripts of the trial, a history of the Massacre and trial, and a character sketch of Adams that includes his Speech on the Boston Massacre.</p><p>Great reading on one of the great ethical responses of the revolutionary bar!!<br /></p><img src="http://blogs.law.yale.edu/aggbug.aspx?PostID=137" width="1" height="1">EthicsHistorylibrary of congressJohn Adamshttp://blogs.law.yale.edu/blogs/reference/archive/2008/03/07/53.aspxFri, 07 Mar 2008 16:32:00 GMT3dba5dbf-cc88-412d-a5e1-dc96318a2d17:53Tom Boone0<p>U.S. District Judge Eduardo Robreno of Philadelphia has tallied the number of times Aaron Wider, the CEO of HTFC, dropped the F-word or a variant of it in a deposition — it was 73 times — and calculated the more than $29,000 sanction he and his lawyer Joseph R. Ziccardi should pay. In his <a href="http://www.websupp.com/data/EDPA/2:06-cv-05291-28-EDPA.pdf">44-page opinion</a> in <i>GMAC Bank v. HTFC Corp.,</i> U.S. District Judge Eduardo C. Robreno found that Ziccardi was also to blame for his client&#39;s hostile conduct because he failed to stop his client&#39;s tirades and persuade him to answer questions. </p><p>(via <a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1204631594910">The Legal Intelligencer</a>)<a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1204631594910"><br /></a></p><img src="http://blogs.law.yale.edu/aggbug.aspx?PostID=53" width="1" height="1">EthicsPractice