One or Many: How Many Clients Do You Have?
When a business lawyer represents a group of surgeons from a major corporation, who is his client?
Tagged: #ethics
Taking Care of Business: Assessing Your Firm’s Professional Responsibility Compliance
It is often far too easy for lawyers to focus exclusively on client matters and lose sight of managing the law firm’s operations. But that is a critical aspect, and one that should be regularly monitored and assessed.
Demand Letter: Be Aware of Ethical Traps
Ethical considerations place restrictions on what lawyers can and cannot communicate in a demand letter. This article will examine some of the ethical considerations specified in California Rule of Professional Conduct, 4.1 (Truthfulness to Others).
In the Matter of Dean Edward Smart
Do two felony convictions, one for assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury and the other for discharging a firearm with gross negligence, involve moral turpitude?
American Bar Association Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility Formal Opinion 490
What obligations do judges have in terms of inquiring into a litigant’s ability to pay court fines, fees, bail, or other charges?
