Dealing With Bad Online Reviews
With websites like Yelp and Avvo, it has become easier for a client or former client to widely disseminate derogatory comments about you and the…
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Past Successes: What Can Lawyers Say About Them?
When marketing their practices, lawyers certainly want to tell potential clients about their successes. They want the world to know how they have taken care…
Contacting Unrepresented People On Social Media
A lawyer’s communications with an unrepresented person are generally governed by Rule of Professional Conduct 4.3 or some similar equivalent. (See, e.g., Georgia Rule 4.3).…
Are You Improperly Giving Legal Advice On the Internet?
Lawyers are allowed to give general answers to legal questions posed by laypeople on social media, chat rooms, blogs, websites, and other internet platforms. That…
Your Law Firm Should NOT Own Real Estate
Lawyers often want to own their offices. Rent payments add up over time, and once that rent money is spent, there is little or nothing…
Operating Law-Related Side Businesses: The Basics
In recent years, accounting firms have been encroaching on work that law firms traditionally performed. If other industries are coming for the law, why shouldn’t…
Potential Limitations On Naming Your Law Firm
Law firm names are generally governed by Rule of Professional Conduct 7.5. In short, law firm names must not be “false, fraudulent, deceptive or misleading.”…
Advising Clients on Their Social Media Use
We have previously discussed a lawyer’s ethical duty to understand social media. Such an understanding is necessary to provide competent representation to clients. So how…
One Way to Limit Client Disputes
Many client disputes arise from a disagreement about the nature and scope of the engagement. Most clients will assume their lawyer is doing more for…
Have You Planned for Disaster?
Imagine this: After a long, but successful week, you lock up your law office and head home for a relaxing weekend. On Sunday afternoon, you…
Connecting with Judges on Social Media
A topic that seems to come up a lot is whether lawyers and judges can be “friends” or “connections” on various social media platforms. Is…
The Ethics of Law Firm Logos
Law firm logos are generally not considered “advertising” under ethics rules, so the restrictions on advertising and solicitation usually do not apply. (e.g., New York,…
Can Confidentiality Provisions In Settlement Agreements Limit Lawyers’ Marketing?
Often when parties resolve disputes, confidentiality provisions are requested and included in a settlement agreement. The scope of such provisions may range from a preclusion…
What Can You Say About Your SuperLawyer Or Other Rating?
Lawyer advertising cannot be false, deceptive or misleading. Most jurisdictions consider deceptive or misleading, communications that compare an attorney’s services with other attorneys’ services unless…
What Do You Do If Your Client Dies During Representation?
Imagine this: You’ve been hired by a client to represent them, but during the representation, the client dies. Now what? Attorney-client relationship The attorney-client relationship…
What To Do If Your Client Disappears
In another post, we discussed what lawyers should do if their client dies during representation. So what about if your client goes AWOL? As an agent…
The Ethics Of Virtual Law Offices
A virtual law office (VLO) can be defined a number of different ways. For some, it may be a traditional legal delivery model, but performed…
URLs After a Law Firm Break Up
Two lawyers, Smith and Jones, have practiced together for a few years. They operated under the name Smith & Jones, LLC and used the URL…
Law Firm Website Domain Names: What Can You Use?
By now, just about every law firm has a website. (If you know a firm that does not, please bring them into the 21st century.) …
Be Careful When Viewing A Represented Party’s Social Media Sites
As I’ve discussed before, lawyers have an ethical duty to understand social media. If they do not, they may, for example, leave important evidence undiscovered…
You Have An Ethical Duty To Understand Social Media
Social media can play various roles in attorneys’ lives. It can be used for personal recreation and for marketing and promoting lawyers’ practices. It can…
Firing A Client For Failure To Pay Your Fee
Most jurisdictions allow a lawyer to withdraw from representing a client if “the client fails substantially to fulfill an obligation to the lawyer regarding the…
Have You Performed A Risk Assessment For Your Law Firm?
Lawyers and law firms are faced with many different threats, both external and internal. If asked about potential risks to their practices, many lawyers would…