Judge Frazier offers practical advice for new lawyers: determine which area of law you like the best, gain as much exposure as you can, network, and be open to broadening your horizons.
One day, you receive a notification that a former client posted a negative review on a free website that rates attorneys. The review by “Maxy” states: He was just hungry for money!
It is critical to understand and properly address attorney-client privilege and attorney work product during the course of an incident response
Judge Taylor believes that attorneys should always be fair to each other, and young attorneys should learn that nobody benefits from taking advantage of each other.
A potential client comes to a lawyer with a case against his or her former employer. The catch: the lawyer worked for the same company before passing the bar.
Under what circumstances must judges disqualify themselves or make disclosures based on personal relationships?
As of today, 10 states have passed recreational marijuana laws along with 33 states that have some form of medical marijuana laws. With each passing of these laws comes the same debates and concerns.
Rule of Professional Conduct 1.4, effective now for a year, has made explicit some duties never stated in former rule 3-500. The new portion of the rule calls for a conversation between lawyer and client about the tripartite relationship among: (1) the client’s objectives; (2) the means the lawyer has available to achieve them; and (3) the resources—financial as well as personal—the client can devote.
We have all experienced AI in modern life: Netflix recommendations, Amazon’s and Spotify’s suggestions, and LinkedIn’s and Facebook’s prods. These may be recent, but AI has been around the legal world for a long while, in both legal research and electronic discovery.
Rule of Professional Conduct 1.4, effective now for a year, has made explicit some duties never stated in former Rule 3-500.
