The United States Attorney General, state attorneys general, and high-rank-ing officials in their offices, like all lawyers, are subject to rules of professional conduct. Increasingly, when they push the boundaries of these rules and other well-established professional norms, individuals and organizations are filing state lawyer disciplinary grievances against them. While some see troubling conduct by […]

Since the inauguration of President Trump to his second term, the country has been flooded with reports of the executive branch making domestic and international policy through reckless unilateral action, encroaching on the domain of the legislative and judicial branches, retaliating against foes and providing clemency for friends, and dismantling the federal government through firings […]

When the government acts to undermine lawyer independence and to restrict the public’s access to qualified counsel, how must lawyers ethically respond? Focusing on President Trump’s executive orders against major law firms and the resulting settlement agreements—in which firms pledged nearly one billion dollars in free legal services to the White House—this article situates these […]

While lawyers may act as moral counselors to aid their clients in legal decisionmaking under the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, little direct evidence exists on what moral counsel those clients might find instructive in legally fraught circumstances. This Article presents empirical evidence on ethical reasoning in situations with legal repercussions. Using a nationally representative […]