When a lawyer leaves a firm, what documents may he or she take?
What documents or work product may lawyers take with them when they leave. Lawyers often refer to previously drafted papers when drafting anew, so they…
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Do You Have a Continuity Plan For Your Law Firm?
We all know we should have personal wills and other documents that outline what happens to our children, possessions, and selves when unexpected events occur.…
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…
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…
Communicating With Potential Witnesses On Social Media
Last week, I discussed researching jurors via social media. Another area that lawyers may consider using social media for is to locate and/or research potential…
Researching Jurors On Social Media
When trying a case, the more you know the better off you usually are. Information about jurors is no exception. As trial lawyers know, the…
Can Attorneys Get Fees On Fees When Self-Representing?
You’ve done a great job for your client and it’s refused to pay the balance of the attorneys fees owed to your firm. You’ve worked…
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…
Social Media Endorsements, Recommendations, Reviews: What You Need To Know
Most social media sites allow users to receive and post likes, endorsements, recommendations, reviews, and comments. Having such posts on your profiles can provide social…
Social Media Use: Is It Advertising or Soliciting Under the Ethics Rules?
I’m going to answer like a lawyer: “It depends.” Here are the basic principles: If an attorney uses a social media account strictly for personal…
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…
Do You Tell Your Clients What You Expect From Them?
Practice law long enough and you’ll encounter a client that makes your job difficult, even if he is unaware of it. Clients may be unfamiliar…
Testimonials: How can lawyers use them?
Social proof is a powerful and well-documented phenomenon and is frequently used to great effect by businesses of all type to obtain customers and…
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.) …