legal ethics odds and ends (June 20, 2010)

 In this NYT article, Ken Feinberg, who will head up the BP claims funds process, and Prof. Richard Nagareda (Vanderbilt) talk about the inevitability of fraudulent claims and how to manage that.  Nagarada says, "The vast majority of lawyers involved are people of integrity, but that doesn’t describe all of the legal profession.”       . . . . .      Hall of Fame basketball player Scottie Pippen has testified in support of his legal malpractice claim against his former lawyers.  (h/t: The Chicago Personal Injury Blog)       . . . . .        A $447 million legal malpractice suit settled in Oregon.  The alleged mistake: transactional lawyering that allegedly left the bank open to liability claims by a developer.  (h/t: Portland Business Journal)       . . . . .        From ALM, here is news that Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is writing a book on his career in the Bush administration.       . . . . .        A group of Nixon Peabody lawyers decamped to Pillsbury, resulting in this ALM article that gives some insight into firms' growth strategies and partners' personal incentives in this new era of the "elastic tournament."       . . . . .