Transactions with clients: is financial assistance OK?
Under the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct, Rule 1.8, certain kinds of transactions with clients are prohibited to lawyers. One of those, generally speaking, is providing financial [...]
Is it malpractice when your lawyer won’t call you back?
Most people never have more than one personal injury case. So, they don’t really know what is acceptable behavior for a law firm. Or, what a lawyer is supposed to do for them in the [...]
Will drafting and serving as executor: is it ethical?
Susan comes to Lawyer’s office looking for help in establishing an estate plan. Lawyer agrees to draft her will and trust documents. But Susan also wants Lawyer to serve as the executor of [...]