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We often get asked to speak at CLE seminars on the topics of Risk Management, Legal Ethics, and Professional Liability. One of the more interactive parts of our presentation is our list of Top 10 [...]

Managing non-lawyer employees is a critical task that lawyers often overlook. Unfortunately, overlooking such a critical task leads to malpractice complaints and Bar grievances all too often. [...]

Billing is a task most lawyers hate, but it’s the way that we all get paid. The Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct require that attorney’s fees—money earned by lawyers—to be [...]

Representation—the attorney-client relationship, which includes fiduciary duties—can be started or stopped at any time. Indeed, a client has an unqualified right to fire a lawyer whenever they [...]

Multiple representation is a common situation for lawyers. Often, small business owners have a lawyer that they trust and like working with. Over time, as that relationship grows, the owners or [...]

A claimant needs three things for a viable legal malpractice case. First, there must be an attorney-client relationship. Second, the lawyer must have breached their duties owed to the client. And [...]

On May 6, 2017, Douglas Chandler of Chandler Law, delivered a presentation, along with David Moon a Founding Partner of CompassPOINT Legal, at the American Board of Professional Liability [...]

On May 18, 2017, attorneys George Fox and Jennifer Thomas of Fox + Mattson, P.C. in Atlanta, Georgia spoke at Chandler Law’s quarterly Breakfast of Champions Seminar. The breakfast seminar [...]

Whether a client is changing counsel, had a change of heart about pursuing their case, or any other reason, there’s a clear set of guidelines that lawyers must follow in order to avoid a [...]

Douglas Chandler represents clients in attorney State Bar discipline, professional malpractice and serious personal injury matters. Atlanta, GA – February 2017 — Chandler Law’s Douglas [...]