LegalMatch.com — A Business Model in Jeopardy?
LegalMatch.com is and has been a popular online service for some 20 years. It’s days, at least in California, however, may be at risk.
Category: Legal Ethics
When Shelter-in-Place Becomes Practice-in-Place – Avoiding Confidentiality Pitfalls While Practicing Law from Home
As the legal profession adjusts to the “new normal” while working from home, it is the lawyer’s responsibility to learn how to ethically use new technology and navigate the potential pitfalls to avoid violating the duty of confidentiality.
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.
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.
Straightforward Works Best — in Several Respects
“Tell them the truth. You practice according to the Rules of Professional Conduct — because you have to. And because it’s good for the client, too, in the long run.”
The Ethics of Flat Fee Agreements
How should a lawyer calculate the amount of the unearned fee due to the client where the fee agreement provides for a flat fee paid in advance and the lawyer does not complete all services required under the flat fee agreement?
Lawyers, Linedrawers and Gatekeepers
There are many fraught areas of legal ethics, but few that match the tension that is reflected in California Rule of Professional Conduct 1.2.1