By Edward McIntyre By an order filed May 10, 2018, the California Supreme Court changed California’s legal ethics landscape. The Court approved, without change, 27 of the comprehensive set of 70 proposed new or...
By Andrew Servais It is no secret that on November 1, 2018, California lawyers will be subject to multiple new Rules of Professional Conduct, which, in most cases will be based on the ABA...
By Patrick Kearns A friend of mine, a California attorney, recently reached out to me regarding a newspaper advertisement he saw in a Southern California newspaper. My friend practices insurance defense and professional liability, primarily...
Ethics and Technology on the Cutting Edge By Edward McIntyre Slowly — as though pushing through a parting cloud — some of us only now are beginning to realize that AI (artificial intelligence) is...
By David Carr One of most fundamental ethical rules is that lawyers must be competent in the provision of legal services. It is the very first substantive rule in the ABA Model Rules of...
By Robert Bryson Young lawyers are always looking for ways to increase their revenue. Most of us would like to rely solely on retaining clients but, as anyone with a small practice knows, there...
By Edward McIntyre Come November 1, 2018, life will change for all of us. New and revised Rules of Professional Conduct—some very new for California lawyers—are effective. By a May 10, 2018 order, the California Supreme...
By Marianne Barth You recently opened your own law office specializing in family law, and are scheduled to meet with your first client, Winnie, who is interested in having you prepare a prenuptial agreement...
By Edward McIntyre Cartoon by George Brewster Jr. Macbeth, Duncan and Sarah had just started lunch at the Greasy Spoon cafe when Clyde Zuckerman came over and pulled out a chair. “ You guys...
By Gary Schons The California Attorney General recently issued an opinion addressing both the attorney ethics and legal conflicts implications posed when an attorney who serves as an elected public official — in the case...