Legal Ethics Stuff
Brad WendelA cranky, opinionated newsletter on lawyers' and judges' conduct, regulation, and sometimes even a little moral philosophy.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 54 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 7 days ago |
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The Law Firm Executive Orders Appeal
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments on May 18, 2026, in the appeal by the Justice Department of the injunctions entered against Trump’s executive orders targeting law firms he was mad at, either for hiring lawyers who had...
The DOJ Supremacy Clause Lawsuit and the Jeff Clark Disciplinary Action
The most recent battle in the war between the Justice Department and state courts over discipline for government lawyers is a declaratory judgment action and action for an injunction, filed on May 13, 2026, against the whole lawyer discipli...
AI and Pro Se Litigants
I picked up a number of new subscribers from my posts on John Eastman, the leak of documents about the origins of the Supreme Court’s shadow docket, and Ed Martin, and that’s great (welcome to the Substack, y’all!), but I want to reinforce...
The Ballad of Eagle Ed
Law360 reports that Lawyers Defending American Democracy (LDAD) has filed an ethics complaint against Drew Ensign, a senior DOJ lawyer (his full title – are you ready for this? – is Deputy Assistant Attorney General, United States Departmen...
Lawyers Wearing Two Hats
My former student, and prolific anti-juristocracy commentator Beau Baumann, recently proposed a Brad Wendel Bat Signal on Bluesky, for legal ethics issues that need to be urgently addressed. I hadn’t yet read the New York Times story by Jod...
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I'm the Edwin H. Woodruff Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. I teach and advise lawyers about the law governing lawyers and write about moral philosophy as it applies to lawyers.
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