It’s another busy day at the office. You are juggling clients, discovery, brief writing and conflicts checks for an influx of potential new clients not to mention entering your billing and [...]
Online reviews of businesses and services are ubiquitous in today’s marketplace. Attorneys are no stranger to the proliferation of such reviews by current and former clients who post on sites [...]
Benjamin Franklin once said, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” to express that it was better to prevent a problem from occurring than to have to repair the damage after-the-fact. [...]
Managing your clients and firm is more than a full time job, and things seem to get more hectic every month as your business grows and the year’s end approaches. While you’re busy running [...]
Relationships between lawyers and clients are governed by the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct. Lawyers must always be wary of conflicts—knowing when and where they appear, and how to [...]
Stress inherent in the legal profession is difficult to deal with for all lawyers. With Chandler Law’s focus on professional liability and State Bar ethics and disciplinary matters, we have [...]
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 [...]
