HeyJaredLegal Ethics Stuff
A cranky, opinionated newsletter on lawyers' and judges' conduct, regulation, and sometimes even a little moral philosophy.
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DOJ Doesn’t Like Real Talk by Judges (opens the original)
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Politico reports that the Department of Justice filed a judicial misconduct complaint against two named and other anonymous federal district court judges in the District of Minnesota. The DOJ’s beef is with these judges having talked to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/us/politi
BigLaw Doesn’t Have a Private Equity Problem (opens the original)
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In our polarized times, it’s hard to find much that people agree on, but I bet this is something: Private equity crappifies everything it touches. From nursing homes to medical practices to venerable American brands like Sears, private equity strips value out of enterprises, leaving them under-funded, under-staffed, and struggling to continue providing decent service to customers. A recent New York Tim
James Percival is a Bad Guy (opens the original)
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On August 18, 2026, two organizations who do a lot of this sort of thing, along with 128 former federal and state judges, filed a grievance with the Florida Bar against James Percival, the General Counsel of the Department of Homeland Security. The complaint charged Percival with knowingly or recklessly making false statements concerning the integrity of several federal district court judges. In response, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier <a href="https://x.com/AGJamesUthmeier/status/20919
The Reflecting Pool Prosecution Falls Apart (opens the original)
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Presumably every American reader has been following the Reflecting Pool fiasco. I know I have some international readers (hi!), so to summarize the story briefly, there is a large pool on the Washington Mall that reflects both the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. For decades, however, it has been plagued with aesthetic issues including leakage from cracks in the concrete and summertime algae blooms. (It’s not often that I cite Chemical & Engineering News in this Substack, but
Should Law Schools Teach Responsible Use of AI? (opens the original)
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No.I could stop there and write my shortest-ever Substack, but I probably should say a little more.To clarify, I’m not in favor of teaching the irresponsible use of AI, or teaching students to employ it without regard to safeguards and best practices to ensure lawyers’ compliance with their duties to clients and tribunals. But I think it is at best a misallocation of time and resources, and at worst a disservice to students, for law schools to attempt to train students on the use of AI tools as
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