Commentary on a recent California decision sanctioning an attorney for charging fees in advance for loan modification services and criticism of the requirement in light of its deterrent effect on lawyer's willingness to undertake such services for low income borrowers

This paper discusses the Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct as applicable to business, transactional, real estate, and title lawyers in Colorado. This paper also discusses comparable rules of professional conduct and interpretations from a number of other states and the ABA's Model Rules of...

Whether as a matter of duty, ethics, or utility, lawyers give reasons for their actions all the time. In the various venues in which legal skills must be employed, reason-giving is required in some, expected in others, desired in many, and useful in most. This Essay underscores the pervasiveness...

Furthering an integrative ethics-as-practice framework, this paper explores the professional practices, self-understanding and ethics of lawyers working in the Germanic legal context. Existing studies of the legal profession often argue that changing conditions in law have led to a...

Recent appellate cases upholding sanctions against lawyers for, in one case, improperly going into business with the client, and, in the other, joining forces with the client's adversaries after terminating the representation

The Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) was the first jurisdiction to fully deregulate law firm structure and allow incorporated legal practices without restriction on ownership. At the same time it also required that these firms implement ‘appropriate management systems' for ensuring...

In his article, The Corporate/Securities Attorney as a Moving Target - Client Fraud Dilemmas, Marc Steinberg does an outstanding job of identifying the complex and significant ethical issues currently confronting securities lawyers. In this article, I attempt to explore the important legal and...