Beware of Common Ethical Blindspots
Building and maintaining a law practice requires hard work, even more so for solo practitioners and small firms where attorneys juggle business development, advertising, human resources, billing, [...]
Chandler Law and CompassPoint Legal Cybersecurity Seminar coming November 2017
Cybersecurity and Legal Malpractice Prevention 1 Professionalism, 1 Ethics, 2 General 4 Total CLE Hours Douglas Chandler, a Legal Malpractice attorney with Chandler Law, and David Moon, a Legal [...]
Professional Liability Section – Not Your Typical CLE
On March 30, 2017, Douglas Chandler of Chandler Law will once again co-chair the Professional Liability Section of the State Bar of Georgia’s “Not Your Typical CLE” [...]
Douglas Chandler presented at Glynn County Bar Association
Chandler Law recently continued its presentations on ethics and malpractice risk avoidance by presenting to the Glynn County Bar Association. Douglas Chandler presented along with David Moon, of [...]
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 [...]
Leaving your law firm? Avoid these ethical issues
Like most professions, lawyers change firms regularly. But because lawyers owe ethical duties to their clients, there’s much more to leaving than just moving out personal belongings. [...]
Chandler Law co-chair State Bar’s Professional Liability Section CLE seminar
On March 2nd, Chandler Law’s Douglas Chandler co-chaired the Professional Liability Section of the State Bar of Georgia’s seminar “Not Your Typical CLE: What We’ve Got [...]
Douglas Chandler, Aubrey Smith, Ben Parks, and David Moon Speak to Rome, Georgia Law Firm
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 [...]
Conflicts of Interest and Ethical Problems
Regulation of attorney conduct is a critical function of state bar rules and ethical codes, and helps to direct appropriate conduct when real-life situations get complicated. Perhaps the most [...]
Conflicts of Interest
It's easy to say, but put clients (past and present) ahead of revenue to stay out of trouble.