If only you could get ethics credit for reading this post.
For years, the estate of Leonard Cohen has been embroiled in litigation involving Cohen’s former attorney-turned-manager, and the law firm that allegedly forged trust documents in order to bestow power upon that individual. The saga continues, with a new lawsuit accusing the firm of malpractice. Read the details at your leisure and, misconduct aside, contemplate the inherent conflict of an artist’s attorney also serving as the artist’s manager.
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