Fee Arbitration: Tips and Reminders
If a client chooses to pursue a fee dispute with their current or former attorney, the client may compel the attorney to participate in mandatory fee dispute arbitration.
Category: Legal Ethics
Is It Time for your Firm’s Ethics Assessment?
Sometimes, even reviewing just a few aspects of a firm’s operations can indicate areas for improvement. And those facets are not necessarily where you would expect.
How Not to Get Your Name “In Lights”
Briganti v. Chow was an otherwise unremarkable—indeed mundane—appeal of a trial court’s granting in part and overruling in part an anti-SLAPP motion in a defamation case.
Ethical Considerations Affecting Indemnity Provisions in Settlement Agreements
This article is intended to provide guidance to litigation counsel concerning the payment by a lawyer of costs or expenses incurred by or on behalf of a client that relates to the attorney’s representation of the client.
Some Discovery Sanctions are Now Reportable to the State Bar
The safe harbor from having to report to the State Bar any discovery sanction is now partially potentially gone.
