Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility

Walking away from a law practice can be emotional, but your exit should be handled professionally and strategically. Your goal is to best serve your clients’ interests, maintain your reputation and continue to move forward in your career.

Charity Anastasio | What should you do if ICE comes to your law office asking for information about your client? A quick guide for lawyers.

Wayne Hassay | If reform is to be meaningful, it must begin with historical honesty—and resist both the elitism of the past and the lure of unchecked commercialism.

Camille Stell | Silence sends a message. So does courageous, principled resistance. Here are steps every lawyer can use to speak up and push back.

Ask the Experts at 2Civility.org: How should I balance priorities when everything for everyone seems to be a “top priority”?

Joan Feldman | Quitting is pretty tough for those of us who believe our highest accomplishment is to dig in our heels and persevere.

Camille Stell | When it comes to attorney organization, we all have the same amount of time. Here are five things hyper-productive people do every day.

2Civility.org's Mark C. Palmer challenges lawyers to embrace GenAI policy development and explore and integrate AI into daily practice.

The people we represent may not have an undergraduate degree much less a J.D.; often they have barely completed high school. We need to stop and think every day about who we truly represent. Our clients? Ourselves? The legal profession? All ...

Ask the Experts at 2Civility.org: Mark C. Palmer tackles ethis questions about AI and legal billing practices.