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What Lawyers Owe Former Clients After Representation Ends
USA - January 22 2026 What’s worse than having a client go elsewhere, and then ask you to spend time helping your replacement? Yesterday (January 21, 2026), the…
Is Your AI Meeting Assistant an Ethics Violation Waiting to Happen?
USA - January 20 2026 AI transcription tools that record, transcribe, and summarize calls are attractive to lawyers and clients alike and are becoming ubiquitous in some…
Farewell to 2025: Best Ethics Practices to Carry Forward into 2026
USA - January 2 2026 As we welcome 2026 with high hopes and new resolutions, let’s review some highlights from 2025 and consider practices that should be carried forward…
DC Bar Provides Ethics Guidance on Lawyers’ Agreements with Government Entities
USA - December 30 2025 The District of Columbia Bar recently issued Ethics Opinion 391, providing insight as to ethical issues lawyers and law firms should bear in mind…
6 Key Ethics Rules for Litigators Using Social Media
USA - November 17 2025 We recently discussed the ethics rules that lawyers must bear in mind when trying to attract new clients through social media channels. Practitioners…
7 Key Ethics Rules for Using Social Media in Business Development
USA - November 10 2025 Lawyers sometimes forget that, as the American Bar Association has noted, we cannot “take off the lawyer hat” to circumvent ethics rules. Likewise…
NC Business Court Revokes Pro Hac Vice Admission and Imposes One-Year Practice Ban on Out-of-State Lawyer
USA - October 28 2025 The North Carolina Business Court recently issued an order revoking the pro hac vice admission of a Florida attorney and barring him from practicing…
Playing with Fire: Avoid Getting Burnt by the Unworthy Client
USA - October 24 2025 While perceptions and descriptions may vary, the term “unworthy client” generally includes dishonest clients whose lawyers get entangled in their…
PRT Litigation Interim Scorecard: Defendants Are Up, But Standing Remains In Flux
USA - October 16 2025 As of the date of this writing, 13 putative class action cases (with three of those cases later consolidated) have been filed against plan…
Civility and Professionalism: Are we getting better?
USA - October 13 2025 For decades, commentators and practitioners have bemoaned the deteriorating level of collegiality in the practice of law. But at the same time…
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