Megan Zavieh, Contributor at Attorney at Work

Megan Zavieh

Megan Zavieh

Megan Zavieh is the creator and author of “The Playbook: The California Bar Discipline System Practice Guide.” At Zavieh Law, she focuses her practice exclusively on attorney ethics, providing representation to attorneys facing disciplinary action and guidance on questions of legal ethics. Megan is admitted to practice in California, Georgia, New York and New Jersey, as well as in multiple federal courts and the U.S. Supreme Court. She podcasts on Lawyers Gone Ethical, blogs on ethics at California State Bar Defense and tweets @ZaviehLaw.

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Five (More) Things to Consider When Drafting Fee Agreements, Pt. 2

Everything a Lawyer Needs to Know When Drafting Fee Agreements, Pt. 1

How Acknowledging Microcultural Differences Can Make You a Better Lawyer

Surviving a Bar Investigation During the COVID-19 Crisis

Get Out! Take an Actual Day Off to Curb Lawyer Stress

Shiny New Social Media Syndrome for Lawyers

Ethics of Virtual Consultations

Can You Relocate Without Taking a New Bar Exam?

Handling Job Interviews While Under State Bar Investigation

How to Keep Holiday Stress From Undoing Your Entire Year

Think Legal Ethics Rules Hold You Back? 5 Ways to Test Your Ideas

Avoiding Common Trust Accounting Errors for Well-Intentioned Lawyers

Apply the ‘If It’s Not a Hell Yeah, It’s a No’ Mantra

Overthinking Legal Tech and the Duty of Competence

A Welcome Shift in How State Bars Are Addressing Mental Health

Growing Girls: Opening Our Professional World to the Next Generation

Solo-Style Spring Cleaning Tips

Lawyers’ Duty to Google: Not Changing Anytime Soon

Understanding Electronic Discovery: Not Just for Biglaw

Beyond Solo: Growing Your Practice Ethically in 2019

Distracted Lawyering

CLE: Five Affordable Ways to Learn More About the Law

When It’s Your Mental Health, the Bar Can Wait

An Honest Audit Leads to a Brighter Future

Sweeping Change Is Needed to the Model Rules (and It Is Not Scary)

VPN: A Simple Step Toward Cybersecurity

Rethinking Your Community to Improve Ethics Compliance — and Your Outlook

Your Law Practice Renovation, Part 2

Kick Off the New Year With a Law Practice Renovation, Part 1

A Pre-Year-End Checklist for Solos and Small Firms

Ethically Outsourcing Social Media Management

Overcoming Fear of Success Through Ethical Safeguards

Blasting Barriers at Clio Cloud Conference 2017

How to Handle a State Bar Letter Questioning Your Fitness to Practice

How Tribes Can Power Your Law Practice

Attorney Discipline Matters: A Fool for a Client?

Creative Goal Setting for Improving Your Solo Practice

Spring Cleaning, Solo Style

Crushing the Intimidation Factor in Your To-Do Items

Differentiating Yourself from Less Ethical Competitors

Creative Thinking About Your Practice Can Reduce Ethics Risk

Ethics Case for Attorney Retreats

Ethics of Lead Generation Services

Finding Passion to Find Balance

Outsourcing for Ethics Compliance

Solo Lawyers: Where Is Your Office?

What Exactly Is “The File”?

Solos: Networking Against Your Grain

Cautionary Tales of Personal Burnout

Who Needs to Know I Got Sanctioned?

Finding Work-Life Balance as a Solo: Ethics Tips

Recovery After Bar Discipline

When the Privilege Waiver Is Unclear

Keeping Better Lawyer Notes

Small Matters: I Never Said I Would Do That

You’re Not Hired! Rules of Non-Engagement (Letters)

Attorney Misconduct — Time to Tattle?

Credit Cards: Worth It to Work It Out

Attorney Discipline: Does Time in Practice Count?

Random Trust Account Audits: Latest Wave of Regulator Concern

Ethics Watch: Alien Status and Bar Admission

Cloud Computing and the NSA: The U.K. Weighs In

Five Ways to Improve Client Communication