legal ethics bits and pieces (June 28, 2010)

A $500 million malpractice suit against Charbourne was tossed out. (h/t: American Lawyer Media)      . . . . .        If it's hard to be accepted at Yale Law School, it's essentially impossible at Princeton Law School.  But you have to applaud the initiative of someone who applied there.      . . . . .       We keep hearing about sanctions in e-discovery matters, but is it possible that the sanctions don't happen often enough?  Jason Krause, writing specially for ALM, explores that possibility.  In a related vein, here is Gibson Dunn's mid-year 2009 update on e-discovery cases.       . . . . .       From Nigeria, here's an article about discrimination against women in the legal profession.       . . . . .         In Sangamon County, there is discussion about whether a judge committed a crime or breached ethics rules by fixing a ticket for a daughter of another judge.  (What would Abe Lincoln think?)  I once asked a new judge what she had learned about judicial ethics at her training, and she said that one of the first things she was told was, "don't fix tickets, don't fix tickets, don't fix tickets."