{"id":3838,"date":"2005-05-11T15:32:37","date_gmt":"2005-05-11T19:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/05\/11\/our-backs-to-the-wind\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:57:43","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:57:43","slug":"our-backs-to-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/05\/11\/our-backs-to-the-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"our backs to the wind"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“she comes back” & “at the bus stop” – <\/FONT>breathmarks: haiku to read in the dark<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A> <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“flashing ambulance lights–” – Walking the Same Path<\/EM> (HSA 2004 Memb. Anth.)<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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on the use of NonLawyer\/Lawyer Referral groups, because it “discriminates against <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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solo and small firms.”   The organization in question has chapters, each of which <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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and learn marketing techniques. Only one person from any given profession or line <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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of business can join any individual chapter. The particular chapter that has approached <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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you includes, among others, a beauty consultant, heating and air conditioning contractor, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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irrelevant<\/EM>.   As noted here before: the fact that “small fry” lawyers are more <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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likely to violate a particular rule than “big shots” is never a viable ethical defense<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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— especially since the small fry were often the main reason a rule was needed.  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“disproportionate impact” theory of enforcement amounts to such pampering. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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update<\/EM>: see Carolyn’s Comment<\/A> and my reply.<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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little broad to me.  Let’s hope he’ll state a principle for us that takes into account the <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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many existing exceptions likely to withstand Constitutional challenge, and that can guide <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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courts and legislatures when dealing wiith issues such as national ID cards.<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"tiny  <\/FONT>Denise Howell laments<\/FONT><\/A> that, to the surprise of absolutely no one, her three-year-old <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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plea for more guidance<\/FONT><\/A> on internet and website advertising by lawyers has not been <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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answered.  California bar groups seem to be looking into this matter.  They will <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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hopefully lay to rest forever <\/FONT><\/FONT>the notion<\/FONT><\/A> that weblogs by lawyers are advertising per se<\/EM>. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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better to call what you’re writing <\/FONT>zappai or pseudo-haiku<\/FONT><\/A> than to continue to misinform <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the public on the nature of haiku.  Everything with three lines of 5 -7- 5 syllables is not<\/EM> haiku; <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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images.   Check out dagosan’s intro to haiku<\/FONT><\/A><\/EM> (or at least the tips at the bottom of the page), <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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or jim kacian’s haiku primer<\/FONT><\/A><\/EM>.   End of sermon<\/FONT> (for now).<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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to The Florida Bar.”  <\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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Florida Board of Bar Examiners re:  Steven A. Papy, Sr.<\/FONT><\/A><\/I>, ___ So.2d ___ (Fla., SC04-<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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1411, 4\/28\/2005; via <\/FONT>sunEthics<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A>).  (As suggested <\/FONT>here<\/FONT><\/A>, personal financial responsibility is <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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a very important part of the question of fitness for bar members<\/FONT>.)<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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