Category: Legal Ethics

By David C. Carr

It is a truism that lawyers are often better at protecting their clients than protecting themselves. One area that illustrates this is what are colloquially referred to as “conflict waivers.” Read More

By Anne Rudolph

Some attorneys advertise their services by purchasing ads in the newspaper, a trade magazine, and in other more traditional ways that are easily understood to be marketing and advertising. All such marketing and advertising must comply with the Rules of Professional Conduct.  Read More

By Charles Berwanger

This article discusses an attorney’s ethical duty of honesty not only in all aspects of the law practice but in all personal matters as well. It also presages the California Legislature’s imposition on attorneys the ethical duty to report to the State Bar another attorney’s act of dishonesty. Read More

By Timothy Casey

This article responds to an earlier article that argued against adoption of American Bar Association Model Rule of Professional Conduct 8.3. (See, David C. Carr, Model Rule 8.3: The Argument Against, Ethics in Brief, November, 2022). Read More