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The Legal Ethics Roundup - your Monday morning tour of all things related to lawyer and judicial ethics with University of Houston law professor Renee Knake Jefferson

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Hello from Chicago! The University of Chicago Class of 1999 celebrated our 25 year reunion over the weekend. Not sure how that is possible?!? But it was wonderful to catch up with classmates. I also spent time in the Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center at t…