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Conducting Client Interviews, Step by Step

Attorney at Work

When a firm handles a number of similar matters for a client, such as routine real estate closings, an annual review can suffice. In the case of protracted litigation, “after-action” reviews may be helpful at various points along the way. Take notes unless the client objects. Selecting the Clients to Interview.

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Fair Pay: Compensating Fact Witnesses

WA Bar News

Their role varies with any given litigation. In another, the witness may be a former employee who can provide the institutional memory of why a company involved in litigation did or did not take particular action in the past. Fucile Fact witnesses can make a critical difference in a case. 24 About the author Mark J.

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Lookback 2020: The Biggest Takeaways for Attorneys

MyCase

In this segment, our expert panel dives into the growing demand for virtual collaboration options and implications thereof on office policy and real estate. But a month later, there I was doing depositions online, dozens of them, with attorneys who had previously objected to them. How are we open?

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Breaking Up is Hard to Do

Joseph, Hollander & Craft

if the lawyers withdrawal would result in significant harm to the forward progress of the clients matter, significant increase in the cost of the matter, or significant harm to the clients ability to achieve the legal objectives that the lawyer previously agreed to pursue in the representation. It states: Under Rule 1.16(b)(1),

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Legal Ethics & Malpractice Reporter, Vol. 5, No. 10

Joseph, Hollander & Craft

also requires cultural awareness as necessary to provide competent representation in a particular matter to achieve a client’s objectives. Any lawyer who uses expert witnesses for litigation and anyone who serves or wishes to serve as an expert witness will find this fascinating and important. 281 (2024).

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The Importunate Client

Joseph, Hollander & Craft

In litigation a lawyer should explain the general strategy and prospects of success and ordinarily should consult the client on tactics that might injure or coerce others. We fight allegations of professional misconduct against medical and legal practitioners, accountants, real estate agents, and others. But KRPC 1.16(b),

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Toppling the Barriers to Success for Asian American Female Litigators

WA Bar News

Unfortunately, litigators who do not fit the stereotypical idea of what an oral advocate should look like must fight harder to establish credibility because, as legal scholar and Columbia Law School Professor Kimberl Crenshaw writes, what is understood as objective or neutral is often the embodiment of a white middle-class world view.