Legal ethics odds and ends (January 17, 2012)

• Irish Times: "Ex-AG Says Bill Would Undermine Profession." "THE PROPOSED Legal Services Regulation Bill will make the legal profession “subject to indirect supervision and control by the Minister for Justice”, according to former attorney general John Rogers. He had asked why the Government had adopted a policy “to vest such extraordinary controlling power in the Minister for Justice.”

• Miami-Herald: "Female Lawyers Making their Own Tracks to Success"

• Canadian Lawyer Mag: "Building a new Canadian legal pipleline to the world"

• Register-Mail (Galesburg): "Commission considers case of brothers practicing law on opposite sides"

• Trinidad Express: "Keep Silk, But Change Criteria"

• Money Law: "The Better Angels of Our Profession" "Law professors across the country have reacted rather strongly to the New York Times' series, particularly Segal's article on law faculty hiring and the staff editorial demanding law school reform."  (h/t: Tax Law Prof Blog)

• Legal Informatics Blog: "Kahana on Computational Law Applications and the Unauthorized Practice of Law"