The Pennsylvania Supreme Court granted a petition to suspend a lawyer for one year following his admission that he accepted oral sex from a client in exchange for defending her against a charge that she was driving under the influence of alcohol. So reports the Daily Report.

Disgraced financier Thomas White, who was accused of having sex with underage boys in Mexico, is suing the well-respected attorneys who represented him in civil suits filed by his accusers, the Recorder reports.

Ethics charges have been filed in Illinois against a former partner in the real estate practice group in the Chicago office of Sidney, Austin, Brown & Wood, according to the Legal Profession Blog.

The general counsel of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) gave a speech recently in front of regulators from around the country describing a "hypothetical" state utility regulator whose staff attorneys need to learn a lesson about loyalty and good judgment, according to the Recorder.