In one of four advisory opinions released this week by the Ohio Board of Professional Conduct, the quasi-judicial body clarified whether out-of-state lawyers on federal business may maintain an office in Ohio. Opinion 2016-9 withdraws former Opinion 91-06 and states that lawyers from out-of-state jurisdictions who are in good standing and admitted or authorized to [...]
SAN FRANCISCO — The nation’s largest state bar association is overhauling ethics rules for attorneys for the first time in 30 years, and some lawyers are unhappy about a proposal that would open them up to discipline for having sex with clients. California currently bars attorneys from coercing a client into sex or demanding sex [...]
A divided Ohio Supreme Court recently rejected a Board of Professional Conduct recommendation to impose stayed suspensions for two attorneys charged with multiple ethical violations related to services they had performed for an elderly client. Nancy Zoller of Lyndhurst and Edward Mamone of Cleveland were both admitted to the practice of law in Ohio in [...]
Do you harbor a particularly strong affinity for your lawyer? Now there is a day, and a hashtag, for you to express your love. “Love Your Lawyer Day” has technically been around for the past 15 years after a legal marketer, Nader Anise, national director of the American Lawyers Public Image Association, created the celebratory [...]
Coping with slow growth, client retention, integrating new generations — all are big concerns for the top law firms in the United States these days. But the one thing that will almost definitely make or break many law firms in the coming years? Baby boomers. Or the lack of them. Baby boomers and members of [...]