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- ‘A Preventable Mess’: How Dementia Takes Toll on Aging Lawyers
- 12 Steps to a Healthier Law Practice in 2020: Step 11 – Actions Speak Louder Than Words
- 12 Steps to a Healthier Law Practice in 2020: Step 2 – Treat Others the Way You Want to Be Treated
- 12 Steps to a Healthier Law Practice in 2020: Step 1 – Take Responsibility
- 12 Steps to a Healthier Law Practice in 2020: Step 10 – Three’s A Crowd
- 12 Steps to a Healthier Law Practice in 2020: Step 12 – Begin How You Want To End
- 12 Steps to a Healthier Law Practice in 2020: Step 3 – Avoid Conflict
- 12 Steps to a Healthier Law Practice in 2020: Step 4 – Money Does Not Buy Happiness
- 12 Steps To A Healthier Law Practice In 2020: Step 5 – Sharing Is Caring
- 12 Steps to a Healthier Law Practice in 2020: Step 6 – Advise on the Law
- 12 Steps to a Healthier Law Practice in 2020: Step 7 – The Practice of Law is Not a Dating Service
- 12 Steps to a Healthier Law Practice in 2020: Step 8 – Communication is Key
- 12 Steps to a Healthier Law Practice in 2020: Step 9 – Location Matters
- 5 Ethics Considerations for Alternative Fee Arrangements
- 5 Issues to Analyze When Your Law Firm is Considering a Merger
- 5 Law Firm Events That Can Trigger Partner Departures
- 5 Law Firm Systems to Review for 2017
- 5 Legal Ethics Compliance Systems to Review Today
- 5 Legal Ethics Questions for Your In-House Legal Team
- 5 Reasons to Seek Independent Outside Ethics Counsel
- 600 California Bar Exam Takers Seek Refund After Topics Leak
- A guide to the First Steps of Managing Your Firm’s Exposure
- A new year, a new budget: How law firms should be planning their finances right now
- ABA Ethics Opinion 516: When Can a Lawyer Voluntarily Withdraw Without Harming the Client?
- ABA Ethics Opinion 517: New ABA Ethics Opinion Clarifies Jury Selection Obligations for Lawyers
- ABA Formal Ethics Opinion 514
- ABA Formal Ethics Opinion 515
- Absent an Agreement to the Contrary, the California Uniform Partnership Act Controls the Scope of a Departing Partner’s Liability to a Former Partnership for Partnership Obligations Incurred by the Firm after Partner Dissociation
- According to the California Supreme Court in Edwards v. Arthur Andersen, There is No “Narrow Restraint” Exception to General Rule Voiding Noncompetition Agreements
- Advance Conflict Waivers, Arbitration–and Fees–Tossed for Conflicts
- Analyzing Conflicts of Interest When You Join a Matter in Progress
- Andrew Dilworth Joins Firm as Partner
- AR Aging and Utilization Rates: Where Law Firm Profitability Is Really Made
- Are AI Chats Privileged? Landmark Federal Court Ruling on GenAI & Legal Protection
- Are Recent Ethical Rules that Establish Attorney Notification Protocols For Departing Attorneys Really in the Best Interest of the Clients?
- Are you Really a Partner? Non-Equity or Income Partners May Have Unique Issues During a Departure or Lateral Move
- Attorney Succession Planning: Ethical Duties to Plan Ahead and Best Practices
- Auditor Criticizes Bar’s Discipline System but Says Exam was Successful
- Bankruptcy Court finds that Unfinished Business Rule is Valid in California and May Apply to Hourly Rate Matters
- Bar Denies LegalMatch Services Application, Attorneys Object
- Bar Files Amended Complaint to Halt LegalMatch Services
- Be Warned: CA In-House Corporate Counsel Must Register With State Bar
- Best Practices For Firms In Considering Whether to Provide a Departing Attorney with a Copy of His or Her Entire Mail Folder upon Departure from the Firm
- California Courts Giveth Pro Hac Vice Admission. . .and Taketh Away
- California Disqualification Decision and Claims of “Unreasonable Delay”
- California Ethics Opinions of 2021
- California Judge Denies Injunction Against LegalMatch
- California Law Firm Departures in the COVID-19 Era
- California Partners Can Lawfully and Ethically Plan and Prepare to Depart from Their Law Firm
- California Rules of Professional Conduct: Responsibilities and Restrictions on Departing Partners in Communication and Solicitation of Law Firm Clients
- California State Bar Defense: What Lawyers Should Know about Admissions, Investigations, and Discipline
- California Supreme Court and Non-Compete Provisions in Partnership Agreements: Howard v. Babcock Holds that Partners Imposing a Reasonable Toll on Departing Partners who Compete with the Firm is Enforceable
- California Supreme Court Approves Major Revisions to Ethics Rules
- California Supreme Court Overturns Jewel Doctrine
- California Supreme Court Will Review Arbitration, Advance Conflict Waivers, and Disgorgement of Fees
- California Watches Washington State End Nonlawyer Licensing
- California’s Confidentiality Rules for Lawyers Stand Apart
- California’s Law Firm Registration and Renewal Process is Now Online
- California’s New Rules: How Communication Rules Impact Attorney Departures
- California’s New Rules: How New Conflicts Rules Impact Attorney Departures
- Can a California Attorney Advise Clients Regarding Medical Marijuana?
- Can a Trust Hold Ownership of a Law Firm? Nope.
- Can Advance Conflict Waivers Ever Be Informed Consent?
- Can Lawyers Just Ignore AI?
- Can You Make Ethics Compliance a Competitive Advantage?
- Can You Sue Your Own Current Clients? Umm…No.
- Charting an Ethical Course through Perilous Waters
- Check Yourself on Attorney-Client Trust Accounts
- Choosing Limited Liability for Your New York Law Firm
- Collection Rates and Cash Flow: The KPI Pairing Every Firm Needs
- Conflicts of Interest: Advance Waivers, Joint Defense Agreements & Outside Counsel Guidelines
- Connect with Caution: Don’t Let Social Media Indirectly Compromise Client Confidentiality
- Considering Litigation Funding? Ask Some Questions.
- Court Found No Conflict of Interest with Dual Representation of Law Firm and Partner Against Claims from Departing Partner Shareholder
- Covid Pressures Change to Where Lawyers Can Practice
- Creating Successful Outcomes for Lateral Partner Transitions
- Cutting Edge Conflicts: Recent Developments in Perilous Times
- Daniel O’Rielly Appointed Member of Professional Responsibility and Ethics Committee
- Departing Partners and Client Files Part II: Transferring Client Files in the Digital Era
- Departing Partners And Potential Conflicts With Current And Former Clients: The Featured Role Of The “Substantially Related” Test In Two Recent Disqualification Decisions
- Departing Partners and the Handling of Client Files in California
- Departing Partners Must Properly Navigate California’s Uniform Trade Secrets Act When Making a Lateral Move to a New Firm
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- Does Your Law Firm Have New Reporting Requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act?
- Ethical Duties When Leaving and Joining Law Firms
- Ethical Issues in a Borderless, Digital World
- Ethical Issues in Succession Planning at Your Firm
- Ethical Obligations Regarding the Use and Handling of a Law Firm’s Domain Name upon a Partner Departure and Change In the Firm’s Name
- Ethics Guidance For the New Normal of Attorney Work
- Every Lawyer Should Access Legal Ethics Guidance for Generative AI
- Evolving Legal Ethics: Portable Devices, the Cloud and Social Media
- Fearing Fear Itself in Legal Ethics
- Federal Prosecutors Accuse Michael Avenatti’s Lawyer of Plagiarism
- Firm Partners Present on Law Firm Culture and Partner Departures to PilotLegis RPG
- Firms in PG&E Wildfire Suits Get Ahead of Conflicts Concerns
- Former Girardi Keese Lawyers Face Troublesome Ethics Questions
- From Guesswork to Strategy: Why Your Law Firm Needs a Financial KPI Report
- Hot Legal Ethics Topics
- Hot Legal Ethics Topics
- Hot Legal Ethics Topics
- How Savvy Law Firms Protect their Firm from Partner Departures
- How to Stay on Top of New Rules Affecting Your Practice
- Is the Arbitration Provision in Your Firm’s Fee Agreement Properly Drafted?
- Is Your Law Firm Prepared for the Next Partner or Group Departure?
- Is Your Law Practice Due for a Legal Ethics Audit?
- Jewel Doctrine Will be Revisited by California Supreme Court
- Keeping Up with Evolving Attorney Competence Requirements
- Law Firm Can’t Require Departing Partner to Forfeit Equity If Partner Takes Clients
- Law Firm Formations and Transformations
- Law Firm Planning for a Post-Pandemic World
- Law Firm Resolutions for a Happy New Year
- Law Firm Risk Management Goals for 2021
- Law Firm’s Non-Solicitation Agreement Restricts Mobility of Departing Partner
- Law Firms have Ethical Obligations with Respect to the Handling of a Departing Partners Email Communications and Account
- Lawyer Mobility Is A Challenge for Firms, Bar
- Legal Ethics and Your Law Firm Partnership Agreement
- Legal Ethics in the Era of Law Firm Mergers and Vereins: Navigating Fee-Splitting, Referral, Conflicts and Other Ethical Issues
- Legal Malpractice & Risk Management (LMRM) Conference
- Legal Professional Responsibilities Relating to Competence
- LegalMatch.com Loses Fight with California Bar, For Now
- Location, Location, Location: Unauthorized Practice of Law in California
- Looking at Your Firm’s Balance Sheet: Law Firm Clients, and Lawyers, are Not Property
- Managing COVID-19’s Second Wave of Disruption for Your Law Firm
- Managing Law Firm Dissolutions in Uncertain Times
- Managing Partner Dena Roche reappointed to COPRAC as Advisor
- Managing Partner Departures So They Are Not Bad for Business
- Mistakes were Made? Learn from the Post-Mortem Analysis
- Mitigating Risks During Departure, Part 2: Minimize Exposure to Potential Claims Following a Partner Departure
- Mitigating Risks For Departing Partners, Part 1: Control the Timing of Your Departure Announcement
- Navigating California’s Narrowing Attorney-Client Privilege
- Negotiating for Your Clients: How Far is Too Far?
- Nelson Levine v. Lewis Brisbois Just Settled: Firm Laptops and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act – Lessons from A Recently Resolved Attorney Departure Case
- Notice Anything? How to Handle Law Firm Notice Provisions for Departing Partners
- Notice to Clients of Attorney Departure Not Likely Protected Speech in California
- NYSBA Ethics Opinion 1288: A Trust Cannot Hold Ownership of a Law Firm
- O’Rielly & Roche LLP announces the opening of its New York office
- Partner Daniel O’Rielly Appointed Vice-Chair of COPRAC
- Partner Daniel O’Rielly interviewed in Law Practice Magazine
- Partner Daniel O’Rielly Named to Daily Journal’s Top Professional Responsibility Lawyers for 2023
- Partner Daniel O’Rielly Presents to the Managing Partners’ Roundtable
- Partner Dena Roche who was appointed Vice-Chair of the State Bar of California’s Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC)
- Partner Departure Tip: Don’t Let Your Emotions Rule the Day
- Partner Departure Tip: Locate Your Partnership Agreement and Read It
- Partner Departures and Golden v. California Emergency Physicians Medical Group: Does California’s Business and Professions Code § 16600 Void Any Partnership Provision that Restricts a Departing Partner’s Right to Compete?
- Partner Kendra Basner Appointed to the Board of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers (APRL)
- Partner Kendra Basner Elected Treasurer of APRL
- Partner Kendra Basner is Elected President of the international Association of Professional Liability Lawyers (APRL)
- Partner Kendra Basner Is One of Twenty-Six Lawyers Admitted to Practice Law in Wyoming
- Partner Kendra Basner is Quoted in Forbes Article
- Partner Kendra Basner is Voted President-Elect of the national Association of Professional Liability Lawyers (APRL)
- Partner Kendra Basner Presents on Alternative Business Structures at Aon Law Firm Symposium
- Partners Daniel O’Rielly and Dena Roche Publish Daily Journal Article on Law Firm Succession Planning
- Physical Office Requirements for New York Law Firms
- Planning for What Comes Next: Why Every Law Firm Needs a Succession Financial Plan
- Planning is Key to Successful Attorney Transitions
- Preparing Your Law Firm For the Post-COVID-19 World
- Protecting the Attorney-Client Privilege for In-Firm Ethics Communications
- Recent Developments in the Unauthorized Practice of Law
- Remote Demands Pressure Restrictions on Where Lawyers Practice
- Rule 1.1 – Competence: An Overview
- Rule 5.4 Changes – Big Changes – May Be Coming
- Selected Provisions in Attorney Fee Agreements: Permitted or Problematic?
- Sex, Lies and Diligence: Ethics in a New Era
- Sharing Confidential Information with a new Firm Can Create Risks
- Should California update rules on out-of-state attorneys?
- Should Non-Attorneys Be Permitted to Practice (Some) Law?
- Should Non-lawyers be Permitted to Own Law Firms?
- Significant Victory in Challenge Against Unfinished Business Rule’s Application to Hourly Fee Matters in California
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- Sitting Where You are Not Licensed
- State Bar of California 2021 Ethics Symposium
- State Bar of California Legal Ethics Symposium 2022
- Succession Planning for (Dearly) Departed Partners
- Terminating Your Client
- The ABA’s Tentative Step into the Future of Lawyering
- The annual expense audit: how law firms find profit hiding in plain sight
- The Catch-22 of Seeking Judicial Recusal: Too Much or Not Enough?
- The Legal Ethics of Lawyer Wellness
- The Limitations of Advance Conflict Waivers for Corporate Subsidiaries
- The National Push to Change UPL Rule 5.5 Has Begun
- The Obligations of Departing Attorneys to Avoid Prejudice to Clients Upon Firm Dissolution or Withdrawal Analyzed in California State Bar Opinion
- Time to Dust Off Your Law Firm Partnership Agreement
- Tracking Proposed Revisions to California’s Rules of Professional Responsibility
- Tweeting Your Way Afoul of Attorney Advertising Rules
- Understanding the Corporate Transparency Act: A Compliance Guide for Law Firms
- Understanding the Corporate Transparency Act: A Guide for U.S. Businesses
- Use it or Lose It: Take Advantage of Your Annual Insurance Risk Management Budget
- Using “Conflict Counsel” In Vetting Lateral Transitions
- What Does ABA’s Departure Opinion Mean for California Law Firms?
- What Gets Measured Gets Rewarded: Attorney Performance and KPI Reporting
- What to Expect When You’re Departing
- What’s in a Title? How Law Firms Define the Lawyers that work at the Firm Matters
- What’s your law firm’s relationship with the rules?
- When a Large Law Firm Dissolves
- When Good Attorneys Leave: What the Data Could Have Told You
- When is an Attorney’s Blog Considered Advertising under Legal Ethics Rules?
- When Is It Time to Consider a Law Firm Dissolution?
- Which Law Firm Partners Should Stay and Which Should Go?
- Why Smart Lawyers Get Counsel for Law Firm Departures
- Why Your Firm Needs a Lawyer
- Why Your Law Firm Needs a Lawyer
- Worry About the Conflicts that Your Software Probably Won’t Detect
- Your Ethical Duties to Plan for Law Practice Succession
- Your KPI Report Is Only as Good as Your Data
- Your Law Firm Culture Should Protect the Firm from Partner Departures
- Your Law Firm Has Lawyers Working Remotely. Where, exactly?