by Megan Zavieh | Oct 28, 2019 | Attorney Resources, Blog, Legal Tech, Professional Conduct for Lawyers, Professional Ethics for Lawyers, Social Media, Technology
This post was written by Megan Zavieh and originally published on Lawyerist.com on September 25, 2013. Ethics blogs and journalists spend a lot of time writing about new technology and how it impacts the world of legal ethics. All this writing spawned a new...
by Megan Zavieh | Oct 21, 2019 | ABA Ethics, Attorney, Attorney Client Relationship, Blog, Ethics, Law Office Management, Law Practice Management, Lawyer, Practice Management, Professional Conduct for Lawyers, Professional Ethics for Lawyers, Small Law Firm, Solo Lawyer, Solo Practice
This post was written by Megan Zavieh and originally published on Lawyerist.com on February 27, 2015. The attorney-client relationship is one of varying degrees of collaboration, depending on how involved your client chooses to be, how sophisticated they are in legal...
by Megan Zavieh | Oct 7, 2019 | Blog, Ethics, Professional Ethics for Lawyers
This post was written by Megan Zavieh and originally published on Lawyerist.com on September 11, 2013. We all have days we wish we could “do over,” but when you sit on the bench, it is just not that simple. Montana was in the headlines for the actions of District...
by Megan Zavieh | Sep 30, 2019 | ABA Ethics, Attorney, Attorney Client Relationship, Attorney Discipline, Blog, Disciplinary Hearings, Ethics, Law Office Management, Lawyer, Practice Management, Professional Conduct for Lawyers, Professional Ethics for Lawyers, Small Law Firm, Solo Lawyer, Solo Practice
This post was written by Megan Zavieh and originally published on Lawyerist.com on July 10, 2013. How often do we read a court case where the court says its ruling “is consistent with common sense”? Not often, but it does happen. I stumbled upon such a case...
by Megan Zavieh | Sep 23, 2019 | ABA Ethics, Attorney, Attorney Client Relationship, Attorney Resources, Blog, Cyber Security, Ethics, Law Office Management, Law Practice Management, Lawyer, Practice Management, Professional Conduct for Lawyers, Professional Ethics for Lawyers, Small Law Firm, Solo Lawyer, Solo Practice, Technology
This post was written by Megan Zavieh and originally published on Lawyerist.com on June 12, 2013. With the revealed intel that the U.S. government collected phone and internet usage information from millions of Americans for years, what steps must attorneys take to...
by Megan Zavieh | Sep 18, 2019 | ABA Ethics, Attorney, Attorney Discipline, Attorney Suspension, Blog, Disbarment, Disciplinary Hearings, Ethics, Law Office Management, Law Practice Management, Lawyer, Practice Management, Professional Conduct for Lawyers, Professional Ethics for Lawyers, Small Law Firm, Solo Lawyer, Solo Practice, State Bar Defense
This post was written by Megan Zavieh and originally published on Lawyerist.com on June 4, 2014. Since state bar disciplinary authorities do not always issue statistics on ethics violations, I am hesitant to proclaim this a list of the most-common reasons lawyers find...