Sentences with phrase «professional responsibility issues»

For someone with a passion for legal ethics like me, the course is extra fun because this practical experience is coupled with extensive instruction on professional responsibility issues.

In August 2011, the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility issued Formal Opinion 11 - 459 relating to a lawyer's duty to protect the confidentiality of electronic communications with clients.

Our team also counsels professionals in proactively addressing potential professional responsibility issues and avoiding pitfalls that could result in civil liability or professional discipline.

«Limiting the use of paralegals and other nonlawyer professionals may make it increasingly difficult for many lawyers, particularly small firms and solo practitioners, to practice to the top of their licenses,» says Ellen Murphy, a professor at the Wake Forest University School of Law who specializes in professional responsibility issues.

He also handles litigation involving professional responsibility issues, fee disputes, law firm disputes, disqualification, sanctions, and problems in the admission process for law graduates.

In 2007, the ABA Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility issued a formal opinion opening the door to ghostwriting pursuant to Rule 1.2 (c) of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct.

At Holland & Knight, Trisha advises lawyers, law firms, and in - house legal counsel on a wide variety of legal ethics and professional responsibility issues, including matters pertaining to confidentiality, conflicts, privilege, fee disputes, lawyer mobility issues, and others.

His practice encompasses a wide array of legal ethics and professional responsibility issues, including conflicts of interest, breakup and hiring matters, as well as loss prevention, risk management, and professional liability.

Specifically, a Practice Advisor at the Law Society of BC is quoted as follows: Some lawyers are so keen on the technology and reducing overhead by having a «virtual law firm» that they are not putting their minds to the professional responsibility issues regarding confidentiality, conflicts,...

Some lawyers are so keen on the technology and reducing overhead by having a «virtual law firm» that they are not putting their minds to the professional responsibility issues regarding confidentiality, conflicts, client identification and verification, determining mental capacity of the client to instruct, undue influence over the client and so on.