Legal Ethics Roundup No. 2 - Lawyer Co-Conspirators in a Presidential Indictment, SCOTUS v. Congress on Ethics, ABA Stifles Ethics Innovation Op-Ed & More (08.07.23)

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Highlights from Last Week - Top Five Headlines

#1 Five (Six?) Lawyers Named as Co-Conspirators in Trump Indictment. The much-anticipated criminal indictment from the United States Department of Justice against the former president named six co-conspirators, at least five of whom are lawyers. (For more on that, see Lawyer(s)of the Week, below.) This case is historic, a first for our nation. Richard Hasen called it “perhaps the most important indictment ever handed down to safeguard American democracy a…