Law Practice,
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Jul. 27, 2018
Casual legal advice can have serious consequences
With the rise of new technologies that allow attorneys to communicate with potential clients in a seemingly unlimited number of ways, attorneys may find that they have a different view of the relationship as a third party does.
For many attorneys, the first instinct when a client asks them to take on a new matter is rightly to run conflicts. While the effectiveness of conflict check procedures can sometimes vary, attorneys typically do not find themselves on the receiving end of a legal malpractice claim for running conflicts too often. Instead, the more problematic situations tend to occur when attorneys do not even realize that they should be running conflicts and thus overlook a potential...
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