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Limiting Professional Liability
7/7/2008
Worried about getting sued for legal malpractice? You probably think your professional liability insurance will be sufficient to cover any claims. What if it isn’t? Can you prospectively limit your liability to a client by including such a limitation...(0 comments)

Email Security and Attorney-Client Privilege
7/3/2008
The 2008 American Bar Association (ABA) Legal Technology Resource Center recently completed a survey of how the legal profession uses technology. In conjunction with an outside research firm, the Center surveyed the legal profession in January through May...(0 comments)

Professionalism and the Need for Civil Behavior
6/30/2008
"The legal profession is in crisis. Public perception of the profession has plummeted from once being considered a highly respected vocation to one often characterized by an increasing lack of credibility, declining ethics, and outright greed." ...(0 comments)

Lessons from Qualcomm
6/5/2008
The litigation community was rocked in January when Magistrate Judge Barbara Major of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, in the case of Qualcomm Inc. v. Broadcom, Inc. (No. 05cv1958-B), entered an order imposing...(0 comments)

Download MS Word Document Extrajudicial Statements: Lawyers' Ethical Obligations in Communicating with the Press
2/28/2008
In an era when attorneys have broad access to the media and the public has a seemingly insatiable appetite for information about high profile legal cases and cutting edge legal issues, an attorney's familiarity with the professional obligations of communicating...(0 comments)

Ethical Considerations in Obtaining New Clients
1/31/2008
Before accepting a client in a matter, the attorney must consider two major things. First and foremost is whether the attorney has a conflict of interest in representing the client, whether that conflict be real or potential. The second consideration...(0 comments)

Download MS Word Document Ethics and Professional Responsibility for Attorneys in Securities Transactions
2/28/2008
With the collapse of Enron and other major corporations, corporate governance and the individuals that contribute to the corporate governance framework have received significant public attention. "Investor confidence in the quality and integrity of public...(0 comments)

Ethical Responsibilities to the Tribunal
1/31/2008
An attorney is required to zealously represent a client; however, this representation is limited by the requirement that such representation be within the bounds of the law. There is a moral component to that representation that is found in Rule 3.3 of the...(0 comments)

Download MS Word Document Ethics and Professional Responsibility Issues in Real Estate Transactions
2/28/2008
Of all of the new realities in representing clients in real estate transactions, undoubtedly the least friendly is the new reality of the vastly increasing number of claims against attorneys based upon conflicts and violations of ethics or rules of professional...(0 comments)

Download MS Word Document Ethics Considerations for the Environmental Lawyer
2/28/2008
Environmental practitioners confront various ethical issues of particular concern to them, and these arise for reasons ranging from substantive issues conflicts, to conflicts in multi-party CERCLA cases, to those inherent in a practice in multiple jurisdictions....(0 comments)

The Law of Fraud and Professional Obligation
2/28/2008
The law of fraud limits the legally acceptable conduct of lawyers and clients. If you or your client commit fraud, civil or criminal consequences could result. If you do so, you also face a third possibility: professional discipline. The Model Rules contain...(0 comments)

The Instrumental Lawyer and the Limits of the Law
2/28/2008
We have seen that the agency relationship between client and lawyer requires the 4 C fiduciary duties to assure that a lawyer acts subject to the client's control. At the same time, every agency relationship is subject to one limitation: neither the principal's...(0 comments)

Doing The Right Thing-A Matter of Ethics, A Matter of Good Lawyering
2/29/2008
Trust Yourself “What’s most important to a lawyer—whether it’s your first day of practice or your last day of practice—is to trust yourself, your instincts, your own innate intelligence and your own judgment,” Comiskey...(0 comments)

THE EXPANDING ENTERPRISE: Too Good To Be True?
2/28/2008
I wonder if something is askew. My client's business plan seems too good to be true. My clients employees leave me uncomfortable. I am just not sure everything is on the up and up. Yet it is nothing I can put my finger on. And the fellow is paying my bills...(0 comments)

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