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On March 10, 2016, Douglas Chandler of Chandler Law, Aubrey Smith and Ben Parks of the Southern Lawyers Insurance Program, and David Moon of Lan-Tech/Compass Point Legal spoke to lawyers and [...]

We have represented clients in legal malpractice matters, and defended lawyers in State Bar disciplinary grievance cases, where the alleged negligent advice giving rise to the claim or grievance [...]

Every lawyer has more than one story about a potential client who contacted them, desperate for them to take their case, and it was just … a terrible case. Sometimes the potential clients [...]

Consider the following scenario. Outside general counsel for a company is asked some complicated tax questions, but lacks tax law expertise. They recommend a tax lawyer acquaintance to the client [...]

The issue of the unauthorized practice of law (“UPL”) comes up in certification for fitness in applications to the Georgia Bar, in legal malpractice cases, and in state bar [...]

Douglas Chandler of Chandler Law, LLC, was interviewed by Fulton County Daily Report reporter Greg Land about a recent decision by the Georgia Court of Appeals involving recusal rules for judges [...]

E-mail—and by that I mean a massive volume of it—is a fact of life for all law firms these days. While there have been some folks, like Sam Glover at Lawyerist.com, who’ve suggested using [...]

Professional liability claims—whether against lawyers, doctors, accountants, engineers, or any other professionals—are, generally speaking, negligence claims based on typical tort negligence [...]

Close your eyes and imagine: you are in your office, working away and getting ready for the holidays, when your assistant brings you a delivery from a well known colleague. Opening the envelope, [...]

It’s that time of year again: travel, turkey, and time off. As lawyers, we help our clients prepare for and deal with “worst case scenarios,” so let us be the first this season [...]