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Category: Practice Management

  • Minnesota Lawyer’s Responsabilities

    Minnesota Lawyer’s Responsabilities [1] A lawyer, as a member of the legal profession, is a representative of clients, an officer of the legal system and a public citizen having special responsibility for the quality of justice. [2] As a representative of clients, a lawyer performs various functions. As advisor, a lawyer provides a client with…

  • Lawyers Professional Conduct

    Attorneys and Lawyers’ Professional Conduct Advertising Client funds and property Confidentiality Conflicts of interest Corporate practice Discipline Disqualification Ethics opinions Fees Government employment Lawyer-client relationship Malpractice Model rules and standards Multijurisdictional practice Obligations to nonclients Professional responsibility Sanctions Trial publicity Unauthorized practice According to Minnesota Rules of Professional Conduct (PREAMBLE AND SCOPE; A LAWYER’S RESPONSIBILITIES):…

  • Who can waive the Attorney’s privilege?

    Who can waive the Attorney’s privilege? See Attorney Privilege Concepts The individual client -Agent’s implied authority to waive Joint clients and participants in common defense -Waiver of joint privilege by criminal defendant Corporate o cers and directors on behalf of corporation Corporate o cers and directors on their own behalf Corporate employees (past and present)…

  • Malfeasance concepts

    Malfeasance concepts See Malfeasance concepts – Malfeasance concepts – Malpractice – What is Malpractice? – Malpractice concepts Failure to do or perform something competently (Malfeasance) A lawyer may be liable for malpractice if he or she performs the actions required by law, but does so in an incompetent or substandard manner. For example, a lawyer…

  • States legislation and cases on Attorney Client Privilege

    States legislation and cases on Attorney Client Privilege See Attorney Client Concepts Besides federal legislation, court rules, and case law, the rules applicable to the attorney client privilege comprises also state legislation. Below is a sampling of state court decisions decided at least in part based on their own state’s court rules, case law, or…

  • Some Attorney Client Privilege Topics

    Some Attorney Client Privilege Topics See Attorney Client Privilege Concepts – Some Attorney Client Privilege Tags – Attorney Client Privilege Tags JUDGES Appeal and review, district judges’ decisions, et seq. JUDGMENTS, ORDERS, AND DECREES Consent decrees, monitoring compliance with, Final judgments, For Attorney ‘s eyes only orders, Protective Orders Stay of execution of judgment, standard…

  • Some Attorney Client Privilege Tags

    Some Attorney Client Privilege Tags See Attorney Client Privilege Concepts – Attorney Client Privilege Tags – Some Attorney Client Privilege Topics CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS Confidentiality agreements, Corporations, status of independent contractors, Subrogee to rights of another, COPIES AND DUPLICATES Telephonic and electronic communications, CORPORATIONS to Agents, protection under privilege, , Assertion of privilege, Attorney of…

  • Attorney Client Privilege Tags

    Attorney Client Privilege Tags See Attorney Client Privilege Concepts – Some Attorney Client Privilege Tags – Some Attorney Client Privilege Topics ABSOLUTE PROTECTION ACCOUNTS AND ACCOUNTING Legal and accounting services, lawyer who is accountant, Taxation, certified public accountants, ADVERSE PARTIES Joint clients subsequently becoming adversaries, ADVICE OR ASSISTANCE Legal Advice or Assistance (this ) AGENTS…

  • Attorney Client Privilege Concepts

    Attorney Client Privilege Concepts The purpose for Attorney -client privilege is to encourage open communications between the attorney and client. Every client of every attorney-regardless of the legal advice or assistance sought-is subject to discovery demands that could reveal privileged information. Attorney-Client Privilege concepts traces the historical development of the attorney-client privilege, of court interpretations…

  • What is a Podcast

    What is a Podcast? We are a multicast society of speakers and listeners, listeners and speakers, teaching and learning in a life and time of change. The best way to understand podcasting is to imagine a merger between blogging (regularly posted articles of news, insight, fun, grips, literature, and more) and radio (an established broadcasting…

  • Of Counsel

    Of Counsel The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel. For in other confidences men commit the parts of life; their lands, their goods, their children, their credit, some particular affair; but to such as they make their counselors, they commit the whole: by how much the more they are…

  • Collection categories and entries

    Collection categories and entries Conclusion Notes See Also References and Further Reading About the Author/s and Reviewer/s Author: international Mentioned in these Entries History of Legal Treatises.

  • McKinsey's consulting and law firms

    McKinsey’s consulting and law firms Just as McKinsey’s consulting practice centers on corporate America, certainly its core clientele and expertise, as opposed to law firms, where they have no domain expertise that anyone would notice, the McKinsey Quarterly surveys do not encompass law firm leaders, but global corporate executives. Nevertheless, these are widely traveled and…