Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility

Camille Stell | What to know about business planning, office location, tech and more.

One-off referrals are nice. But here's how to build a lawyer referrals network that sends a steady stream of business to your law firm.

What do you say when people ask you what you do? Will Hornsby explains some of the stickier points of networking and lawyer specialization.

What does a legal consumer gain from a law firm name like Anderson & Jones? Nothing. Here's why all firms should be allowed to use a brand name.

Our law firm would like to reduce our paper and physical storage use and costs by “going to the cloud” with our data. Before we invest in training our attorneys and staff, how do we know what companies are secure and trustworthy? We don’t want ...

It's been said (often) that lawyers were genteel, professional and respectful of their colleagues in the past. But the last few decades haven't been good ones for the profession on that front. Intimidation, shabby lawyering, "over-papering" and ...

Mark C. Palmer | Q: “I’d like to expand my law firm’s flat-fee offerings into new practice areas, but I want to make sure it's a sound financial move and an ethically permissible one.”

Using a letter of closure at the end of a client engagement varies greatly firm to firm — and at times among lawyers within the same firm. Among those who don't use them, the excuses I hear include, “We do a lot of flat-fee, in-and-out kinds of ...

Annette Choti | A quick primer on some of the most common law firm website ethics rules.

Annette Choti | Benefits and challenges of live chats and bots, as well as popular platforms.