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Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Apr. 20, 2017

Safekeeping funds and property of clients and other persons (Rule 1.15)

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Proposed Rule 1.15 would make significant changes to current Rule 4-100 governing client trust accounts. These changes have not been without debate. By Dan Stanford and Ray Ryan

Dan L. Stanford

Partner
Stanford & Associates, APC

Legal malpractice (specialist), litigation

2535 Camino Del Rio S #324
San Diego , CA 92108-3757

Phone: (619) 696-6160

Fax: (619) 354-5187

Email: dan@thelegalmalpracticefirm.com

USC Law School

Dan is a trial lawyer. He represents consumers of legal services against negligent lawyers statewide, and is a frequent author and lecturer on legal ethics and malpractice.

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Raymond Y. Ryan

Partner
Stanford, Ryan & Associates, APC

Legal malpractice

2535 Camino Del Rio S Ste 324
San Diego , CA 92108-3757

Phone: (619) 696-6160

Email: ray@thelegalmalpracticefirm.com

Thomas Jefferson School of Law

Stanford, Ryan & Associates is exclusively dedicated to litigating legal malpractice cases for consumers of legal services throughout California.

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Special Coverage

PROPOSED RULES OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT

The State Bar of California has long said that the mishandling of client trust funds constitutes moral turpitude and warrants disciplinary action. Reported disciplinary cases offer insight as to how a lawyer loses the privilege of practicing law by improperly handling money in a clients' trust account.

A proposed new rule (Rul...

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