Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility

Trust accounting mistakes strike fear in the hearts of well-intentioned lawyers. Megan Zavieh points to 5 things you can check today to ensure you are handling client funds correctly.

Every lawyer knows mismanaging a trust account (IOLTA) can have terrible consequences. However, most lawyers receive little or no training in how to manage a trust account before opening one of their own. Law schools don’t address this in enough ...

Be sure to run a proper trademark search and file for federal registration before you fall in love with the name for your new law firm.

Many law firms are wondering what to do with their empty offices. Here are a few pros and cons to consider about subletting.

Email is merely information transmitted via the cloud—and all lawyers routinely send confidential messages and attachments via email. It’s how business has been done since Marty McFly hopped in the DeLorean. But today the FBI is warning lawyers ...

Mark C. Palmer | To make my inbox more manageable, I had to change my ways and find new habits.

It is time for a major revamp of how we govern our profession from an ethics perspective. Although that sounds dramatic — and possibly terrifying — there is absolutely nothing scary about this idea.

You’ve spent thousands of dollars building and refining your law firm website, in hopes it attracts lots of new clients. But have you thought through the various legal issues surrounding the use of websites to market a practice? If not, you ...

Camille Stell | Regulatory reform is needed to eliminate legal deserts in the U.S.

Megan Zavieh | Feeling bogged down by the winter months? Spring forward with these top five solo practice cleanups.