A lawyer’s defamation claims against an ex-client who went online to accuse him of a “horrific fraud” can move forward, a San Francisco judge has ruled. Judge James McBride said Elliott Blumberg crossed the line in essentially accusing malpractice lawyer William Gwire of a crime.

A Kramer Levin attorney’s tweet about a TSA agent’s note commenting on a “personal item” in her luggage sparked a media storm. It also highlights how law firms grapple with where to draw the line when it comes to how their lawyers use social media.

The D.C. Circuit has ruled that the government’s statements in opening and closing remarks in a high-profile drug case appeared to cross the line of permissible statements to jurors, but the conduct wasn’t substantial enough to warrant a new trial.

The New Jersey Supreme Court has ordered a new damages trial after deciding that a plaintiffs attorney crossed the line by telling jurors they would be “ignoring the law” and should be reported to the judge if they objected to a $1 million-plus award.

More than just the future ownership of the Los Angeles Dodgers is at stake in the extraordinarily nasty divorce of Frank and Jamie McCourt: The reputation of a respected partner at an Am Law 100 firm is on the line, too. The couple’s former lawyer, Bingham McCutchen partner Lawrence Silverstein, has come under heavy fire over allegations that he “fraudulently altered” the 2004 marital property agreement at the center of the dispute. Meanwhile, Frank McCourt’s lawyers call the change a “drafting error.”