Legal ethics odds and ends (July 30, 2010)

• White Collar Crime Prof Blog reports on a Seventh Circuit decision strongly admonishing a prosecutor for contriving to get some hearsay to the jury.
• The Economist looks at the globalization of law, and at potential impediments.
• In Preston v. Mariner Health Care Management, the Fifth Circuit affirms per curiam a ruling that plaintiff's legal malpractice claim was barred by res judicata.
• In Rivers v. Moore, Myers & Garland, LLC the Supreme Court of Wyoming affirmed a summary judgment for the defendant law firm, where the plaintiff could not present a question of fact regarding its claim that the lawyers' malpractice prevented the plaintiff from being able to build a larger building on the property he bought.
• "Mullett right choice for probate judge."  I thought it was a bad suggestion about hairstyles, but it's just an endorsement.