{"id":5155,"date":"2004-11-29T18:00:33","date_gmt":"2004-11-29T22:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/11\/29\/mass-lawyers-still-looking-ou"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:11","slug":"mass-lawyers-still-looking-out-for-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/11\/29\/mass-lawyers-still-looking-out-for-1\/","title":{"rendered":"mass. lawyers still looking out for #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two of the biggest lawyer groups in Massachusetts are “challenging a ruling that allows judges in Hampden <\/FONT>County<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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to force attorneys to represent the poor <\/FONT>in criminal cases.”  This is one more episode in a <\/FONT>consitutional crisis that began when assigned counsel for indigent criminal defendants (called “bar advocates”), started<\/FONT> illegal <\/FONT><\/FONT>group boycotts in July seeking higher fees.  <\/FONT>(AP\/Boston Herald<\/EM>, Legal groups challenge judges’ right to force them to take cases,<\/A><\/FONT>  <\/FONT>Nov. 29, 2004)<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"jailbird   The Massachusetts bar advocates are continuing to put their own financial interests above the law, their ethical duties and the needs of their clientele:  — click <\/EM>here<\/EM><\/A> to read this entire post and <\/EM>here<\/EM><\/FONT><\/A> for a summary of the Editor’s argument that the boycotts are illegal and unethical violations of the antitrust law <\/EM>—<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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in the misty day
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– haiku of Kobayashi ISSA<\/FONT><\/A>, translated by D.G. Lanoue<\/FONT><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two of the biggest lawyer groups in Massachusetts are “challenging a ruling that allows judges in Hampden County to force attorneys to represent the poor in criminal cases.”  This is one more episode in a consitutional crisis that began when assigned counsel for indigent criminal defendants (called “bar advocates”), started illegal group boycotts in July seeking higher […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1l9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13491,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155\/revisions\/13491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}