Lawyer Ethics, Risk Management and Regulation

  • Our Legal Profession Team exists to help lawyers, law firms and legal departments to do what they do best – practice law for their own clients – without running unnecessary civil, ethical and criminal risk.
  • We have an in-depth understanding of the full range of problems that can and do plague lawyers in all forms and types of practices and how best to avoid problems before they start or resolve them before they escalate.
  • Our breadth of experience and access to our colleagues in a broad array of practice areas allows us to get to the heart of almost any problem in minimal time.
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概览

With its focus on advising lawyers, law firms and legal departments to operate safely, efficiently and effectively, our Legal Profession Team is among the largest and most respected in the country. We help lawyers understand and navigate the situations involving the full range of their professional responsibilities in a practical, results-oriented and timely approach, and we assist clients in identifying, reviewing and circumventing unfavorable conditions before problems even begin.

Leveraging our team's deep litigation experience and insight into the law of the legal profession, we also represent our clients in disqualification motions, sanctions, attorney-client privilege disputes and conflict issues. For matters in which we are not counsel of record, we also provide expert testimony.

Our experienced professional responsibility attorneys are also prolific authors and lecturers who have co-authored seminal texts in this important area, including The Law of Lawyering. We are seasoned attorneys in the legal professional responsibility and ethics fields with an in-depth understanding of the art and science of lawyering.

Professional Responsibility Strength in Your Corner

We have extensive resources to handle your legal ethics, risk management and disciplinary defense matters. Our team has a substantial background representing law firms of all sizes, in-house legal departments at Fortune 100 companies, state bar and governmental bodies, government officials, election authorities and high-profile attorneys. We regularly assist clients in international, national and local matters.

Keeping Clients Current through Private Presentations

In the course of our many annual CLE presentations, we have learned  that it can be difficult or impossible for an audience member with a specific set of questions or issues to ask about them at a public CLE.

Our team therefore offers legal ethics and lawyer risk management CLE presentations on a private, in‐house or law firm‐specific basis. This enables the audience to speak freely to us and enables our team to focus the program on whatever topics the audience most wants addressed. In addition, lawyer travel time, related costs and disruption are minimal because we hold presentations at our clients' offices or by video conference.

Multimedia

Podcast - Allergic to Courtrooms
Inside the Legal Profession: Trisha Rich on the Surging Interest in MSOs and ABSs
Podcast - Dangers of Climbing the Ladder
Podcast - The Law Is the Law
Podcast - Telling the Whole Story
Podcast - The Benefits of Using an Interpreter
Podcast - Trust Is Key
Podcast - The Challenge of Corruption
Podcast - Clarity Over Complexity at Trial
Podcast - Part II: Recent Changes in Jury Dynamics and How to Prepare Your Expert Accordingly
Podcast - Miss Lillian "Testifies": The Importance of Witness Preparation
Podcast - Learn from the Masters
Podcast - Part I: Going from Young Associate to Veteran Lawyer
Podcast - Juror No. 6 and the Unexpected Misunderstanding
Podcast - The View from the Jury Box
Podcast - Connecting with the Jury
Podcast - Bad Facts Make Bad Law
Podcast - Actors on a Stage
Podcast - "I Was Just Playing a Role"
Podcast - Too Dirty for Dirty Crime
Podcast - The Godfather of Houston
Podcast - A Good Lickin'
Getting Involved, Giving Back: Bar Leaders Share Their Stories
Podcast - Bring Out the Bad Stuff
Podcast - Just Press "Play"
Podcast - "I Lied Like a Dog!"
Podcast - Part II: The Do’s and Don’ts of Demonstratives
Podcast - Persistence and Determination
Podcast - Part I: The Do’s and Don’ts of Demonstratives
Podcast - Walking Tall
Podcast - Seek Out Feedback
Podcast - The Three C’s for Addressing Prior Inconsistent Statements
Podcast - Part II: Being an Expert Is a Lonely Business
Podcast - Part I: Being an Expert Is a Lonely Business
Podcast: Don't Just Say It – Show It
Podcast - Finding Common Ground

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