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Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Nov. 8, 2014

Fallout uncertain from Weil lawyer's disciplinary order

Experts are divided over the future repercussions for both bar and bench of Wednesday's decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to discipline prominent Silicon Valley litigator Edward R. Reines.


By Kevin Lee


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Experts are divided over the repercussions for both bar and bench of Wednesday's decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to discipline prominent Silicon Valley litigator Edward R. Reines.


The appellate court reprimanded Reines, a Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP partner, for soliciting business by sharing a laudatory email sent from Randall R. Rader, the former chief judge of th...

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