April 5, 2011

PL 305 Legal Ethics
In class tonight, Tuesday 4/5, we went over the concepts of Chapter 7 of the text, as well as the MRPC regarding attorney fees and client trust accounts. Regarding attorney fees, I also went over three additional cases, Okot v. Conicelli, 180 F. Supp. 2d 238 (D.Me,2002); Fox v. Vice, (Supreme Court oral argument 3/22/2011; and Richlin v. Chertoff, __US__ (2008). We discussed the cases at the end of the chapter up to page 309. The assignment for next Tuesday is to review the remainder of the cases at the end of the chapter, and to read as well five cases from Maine regarding attorney fees (all available through Westlaw):
Fleet Bank v. Steeves, 793 F. Supp. 18 (D.Me. 1992);
Brennan v. Barnhart, 2007 WL 586794 (D.Me. 2007);
B.C. Produce v. Don's Wholesale, 550 F. Supp. 2d 124 (D.Me. 2008);
Stern v. Astrue, 2009 WL 2824751 (D.Me. 2009);
H-D Michigan v. Hannon, 2010 WL 915206 (D.Me. 2010).