Subjects from A to Z
Accommodation of Non-Affiliated Lawyer (1)
Appellate Practice (3)
Arbitration (1)
Artificial Intelligence (14)
- A Cautionary Tale: When Expert Opinion Meets Artificial Imagination
- Agentic AI: What It Is and How It Can Support Your Practice
- AI Legal Writing: How Lawyers Can Work Faster Without Sacrificing Accuracy
- AI Platforms: What’s Out There?
- Authorized Intelligence: Defining AI’s Role in the Law Office
- Cybersecurity and Wire Fraud
- Empowering Legal Teams with AI: The Essentials of Generative AI for Lawyers
- Facing AI Without Fear – Enlisting Help to Conquer Your AI Anxiety
- Give Generative AI a Try-What are Prompts and How to Create Them
- Guarding Client Privacy in the Age of AI
- Reality Check: How Courts Are Confronting AI Hallucinations
- Safeguarding Confidentiality in the Age of AI
- State Courts and the Usage of AI
- The Future of Law: AI in Practice
Asset Evaluation (5)
Attorney Charging Lien (1)
Avoiding Malpractice Claims (5)
Bankruptcy (4)
Business Transaction Risk Management (2)
Business Transactions with Clients (1)
Champerty (1)
Checklists (32)
- A Checklist for Avoiding Inadvertent Disclosure of Confidential Information and Privileged Communications
- A Checklist for Risk Managing Settlements
- An Attorney is Leaving the Firm; Now What?
- Are You Competent To Accept A Matter That Will Require Extensive E-Discovery?
- Are You Ready For The Next Scam Targeting Lawyers?
- Avoiding Hidden Risks: The Dangers Attorneys Face When Performing Title and Lien Searches
- Avoiding Legal Malpractice and Bar Complaints in Family Law Cases
- Cell Phone Spyware Facts
- Client Contact Sheet
- Client Screening - Can you Spot an Unworthy Client?
- Closing Letters: When Does A Client Become a Former Client?
- Common Real Estate Malpractice Errors
- Conflict Avoidance: Top Ten List
- Cybersecurity and Wire Fraud
- Cybersecurity Claims and Protecting Your Practice
- Deciding Whether To Use New Technology To Transmit Or Store Confidential Client Information
- Do I Need To Encrypt This Email?
- Empowering Legal Teams with AI: The Essentials of Generative AI for Lawyers
- Fee Disputes and Legal Malpractice
- How to Avoid Complaints and Claims in Divorce Representations by Using a Comprehensive Client Communication Plan
- Immigration Client Information Checklist
- L + C3 = RM2, A Formula for Malpractice Risk Management
- Law Practice Assessment
- Lawyers Mutual’s Checklist for Business Transaction Risk Management
- Letters of Engagement are a Hot Topic with Insurers and Risk Managers
- NetGain Technologies: How to Spot, Identify & Recognize Phishing Emails
- Risk Management Analysis
- Risk Management Checklists For Maternity Leave
- Risk Managing Conflicts of Interest when Advising the Elderly in Estate Planning
- Structured Settlements
- The Ten Commandments of Real Estate Closings
- What Happens To Your Clients If Something Happens to You?: Checklists for Closing a Practice
Client Confidentiality (11)
- A Checklist for Avoiding Inadvertent Disclosure of Confidential Information and Privileged Communications
- Are You Ready For An E-Device U.S. Border Search – AKA Digital Strip Search?
- Breaching Client Confidentiality - Duh?
- Carelessness with Client Files Exposes Two Law Firms to Serious Malpractice Exposure
- Guarding Client Privacy in the Age of AI
- Pillow Talk and Client Confidentiality Are Not a Good Match
- Q: What’s in a Client’s Name?
- The "New New" Thing in Inadvertent Disclosure - Risk Managing Redaction
- The Growing Threats to Client (and Firm) Data - Managing Technology to Meet the Challenges
- The Internet's Impact on Client Screening Risk Management
- What is Your Responsibility for Loss of Client Confidentiality and Client Privacy When Your Firm Computer and Internet Devices are Hacked?
Client Trust Accounts (12)
- ABA House of Delegates Approves New Model Rules for Client Trust Account Recordkeeping
- Bank Failure Exposes Lawyer to Liability for Trust Fund Loss
- Bankruptcy – Client Trust Accounts
- Client Trust Account Horror Story
- Client Trust Account: Principles & Management for Kentucky Lawyers 2nd Edition
- Credit Cards, Firm Trust Accounts and Thou
- Double Signature Checks Aren't What They Used to Be
- How Safe is the Bank that Holds Your Client Trust Account?
- Risk Management Lessons Learned from Other Jurisdictions: Negligent Escrow Agent Referrals
- Risk Managing the Ethical Duty to Pay Vendors
- Test Your Client Trust Account IQ
- The Check 21 Act and Client Trust Accounts
Clients (27)
- Beware of Business Client-Imposed Guidelines on Outside Counsel
- Client Files Part I: How Long Should You Keep Client Files?
- Client Files Part II: How to Properly Close and Destroy Client Files
- Client Screening - Can you Spot an Unworthy Client?
- Closed Client File Retention Policy: Best Practices
- Closing a Kentucky Law Office: A Guide for After the Death of a Kentucky Sole Practitioner
- Closing Letters: When Does A Client Become a Former Client?
- Federal Beneficial Ownership Information Rule: Obligations of Lawyers to Clients and Firms
- Golden Oldies, The Graying of Professional Responsibility
- How to Fire a Client
- Investing in Client.com
- KBA Ethics Opinion E-436 Provides Updated Guidance on Retention and Disposal of Closed Client Files
- Missing Client: I Can't Find My Client!
- Negligent Advice Malpractice Claims
- Prospective Clients, Neither Fish Nor Foul
- Q: What’s in a Client’s Name?
- Risk Managing the Delicate Representation of an Abused Client or One with Diminished Capacity
- Risk Managing Withdrawal for a Client’s Failure to Pay Fees
- Taking On Someone Else's Dissatisfied Client
- The Amazing Client Electronic Files
- The Delicate Ethical Requirements of Representing a Person With Diminished Capacity
- The Secret Life of Client Files
- What Are a Transaction Lawyer’s Due Diligence Requirements When a Client’s Matter Raises a Suspicion of Illegality?
- What Constitutes Reasonable Diligence in Attempting to Locate a Missing Client?
- What we Have Here is a Failure to Communicate
- When Does a Potential Client Become a Prospective Client?
- When is a Client Not a Client and Vice Versa?
Computers (14)
- Officer And Director Liability For Cyber Security Attacks
- Are YOU Competent in Computer-Assisted Legal Research - CALR?
- Are You Competent to Practice the New Law of Lawyer Technology Competence?
- Are You Ready For An E-Device U.S. Border Search – AKA Digital Strip Search?
- Attorney’s Liability For Data Breaches
- Computer Malpractice Risks
- Deciding Whether To Use New Technology To Transmit Or Store Confidential Client Information
- Do I Need To Encrypt This Email?
- Ethics Still Apply: Even When Your Head Is In The 'Cloud'
- Ten Technology Traps and How to Avoid Them
- The Amazing Client Electronic Files
- What is Your Responsibility for Loss of Client Confidentiality and Client Privacy When Your Firm Computer and Internet Devices are Hacked?
- What Kentucky Lawyers Need to Know about the Ethics and Risk Management of Cloud Computing
- When is LinkedIn Attorney Advertising?
Conflicts of Interest (9)
- Are You Sure You Understand the Difference Between When It Is OK to "Reveal" Client Confidential Information and When It is OK to "Use" Client Confidential Information?
- Conflict Avoidance: Top Ten List
- Conflicts of Interest, Waiver Letters
- Dropping a Client to Take A New Client - The Hot Potato Client
- Investing in Client.com
- L + C3 = RM2, A Formula for Malpractice Risk Management
- The Kentucky Supreme Court Dumps the "Appearance of Impropriety" Conflict of Interest Standard
- What Do Hot Potato Clients Have in Common With Thrust Upon Clients?
- What Do You Do When a Joint Client Revokes a Conflict Waiver?
Consumer Issues (1)
Contract Lawyers (2)
Corporate Director (1)
Corporate Transparency Act (4)
- Beneficial Ownership Information Rule: Obligations of Lawyers to Clients and Firms
- Corporate Transparency Act – Update, March 2, 2025
- Court Calls Beneficial Ownership Information Reporting Requirement Into Question
- Ensure You and Your Small Business Clients are Aware of New Federal Reporting Requirements
Cryptocurrency (1)
Cyber Security Risk Management (9)
- Officer And Director Liability For Cyber Security Attacks
- Are You Competent to Practice the New Law of Lawyer Technology Competence?
- Are You Ready For An E-Device U.S. Border Search – AKA Digital Strip Search?
- Attorney’s Liability For Data Breaches
- Can Defense Counsel Show They Are Cyber Secure?
- Cybersecurity Claims and Protecting Your Practice
- Ethics Still Apply: Even When Your Head Is In The 'Cloud'
- NetGain Technologies: How to Spot, Identify & Recognize Phishing Emails
- Top Takeaways: 2023 Hinshaw Legal Malpractice and Risk Management Conference
Damages (3)
- Another One Bites The Dust! Civil Rule 8.01 Takes Out Plaintiffs (And Their Counsel)
- Keeping Up With Fratzke v. Murphy: Recent Court of Appeals Case Offers Opportunity for Avoiding Malpractice When Plaintiff Lawyer Fails to Seasonably Answer Interrogatories Requesting Specification of Damages
- Kentucky Supreme Court in a Landmark Decision Addresses "Suit Within a Suit", Emotional Distress Claims, and Punitive Damages in Legal Malpractice Claims
Debt Collection (3)
Defense Counsel (3)
Disaster Planning (12)
- Cancer Strikes Two Lawyers and Leads to Harsh Results
- Client Notification Requirements in the Wake of a Disaster
- Closing a Kentucky Law Office: A Guide for After the Death of a Kentucky Sole Practitioner
- Disaster Planning Series #1: Back-ups for your Who, What, When
- Disaster Planning Series #2: Checklist: Preparing Your Agreement with Your Back-Up Attorney
- Disaster Planning Series #3: Checklist: Preparing Information for Your Back-Up Attorney
- Disaster Planning Series #4: Your Client Dies During Litigation. Now What?
- Disaster Planning Series #5: Ethical Considerations and The Cloud
- Getting Physical - Are You Ready for an Office Catastrophe?
- Mother Nature Strikes Again
- Risk Managing Closed And Abandoned Practices
- What Happens To Your Clients If Something Happens to You?: Checklists for Closing a Practice
Divorce (7)
- Divorce Malpractice Style: Inadequate Advice on Financial Terms
- Family Law: Post-Divorce Risk Management
- How to Avoid Complaints and Claims in Divorce Representations by Using a Comprehensive Client Communication Plan
- Keeping Up with the Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act (USFSPA) Is a Risk Management Must for Kentucky Lawyers Whose Practice Includes Divorce Matters
- Know Your Options in Divorce: Evaluating Stock Option Marital Assets
- Nationwide Family Lawyers Struggle with Marital Assets Settlements
- QDROs, Pensions, and Malpractice
Document Destruction (1)
E-Discovery (3)
Email Risk Management (6)
- Email Plays Significant Part in Overruling Summary Judgment in Favor of Defendant Lawyer in Malpractice Suit
- Failure to Risk Manage Spam Email Costs Firm Opportunity to Appeal Assessment of Attorney's Fees as High as $1,000,000
- How Should a Firm Manage Email Sent to the Firm for a Lawyer No Longer Associated with the Firm?
- Reasons Not to Use "cc:" "bcc:" or "reply all:" When Copying Emails to a Client
- Risk Managing Email
- Web-Bugged Emails – aka "Spymail"
Environmental Law (1)
Escrow Agent (1)
Expert Witnesses (2)
Family Law (2)
Federal Practice (1)
Fees (16)
- "A Computer Virus Ate My Billing Records" is No Defense to a Bar Complaint Over Fees
- Avoiding Fee Disputes - When Are Advance Fees Earned?
- Bizarre Billing Practice Defeats Firm’s Collection Suit for $332,569
- Credit Cards, Firm Trust Accounts and Thou
- Do You Know the Ethics Rules for Increasing Fees During a Representation?
- Does Your Client Have Insurance For Litigation Expenses?
- Fee Disputes and Legal Malpractice
- Getting Paid in Hard Economic Times
- Investing in Client.com
- Kentucky Supreme Court Spells Out When A Lawyer Who Is Discharged Or Withdraws From A Contingency Fee Case Is Entitled To A Quantum Merit Fee
- Risk Managing Disputed Shared Fee Division
- Risk Managing Withdrawal for a Client’s Failure to Pay Fees
- Should You Accept Credit Cards for Fee Payments?
- The Perils of Splitting Fees
- Top Takeaways: 2023 Hinshaw Legal Malpractice and Risk Management Conference
- Your New Client Wants to Pay Your Fee by Crowdfunding on the Internet.
Files (14)
- Are You Ready For An E-Device U.S. Border Search – AKA Digital Strip Search?
- Carelessness with Client Files Exposes Two Law Firms to Serious Malpractice Exposure
- Client Files Part I: How Long Should You Keep Client Files?
- Client Files Part II: How to Properly Close and Destroy Client Files
- Client Files – Risk Managing Client E-Mail
- Closed Client File Retention Policy: Best Practices
- Closing a Kentucky Law Office: A Guide for After the Death of a Kentucky Sole Practitioner
- Documenting the File Involves Much More Than You May Think
- Does Your Firm Have a “BYOD to Work” Risk Management Program?
- Don't Let the Cloud Rain on Your Practice
- KBA Ethics Opinion E-436 Provides Updated Guidance on Retention and Disposal of Closed Client Files
- The Amazing Client Electronic Files
- The Growing Threats to Client (and Firm) Data - Managing Technology to Meet the Challenges
- The Secret Life of Client Files
Financial Transactions with Clients (2)
Immigration (4)
Impaired Lawyers (3)
Incidents of Potential Malpractice (1)
Insurance Malpractice Issues (5)
- Beware of Business Client-Imposed Guidelines on Outside Counsel
- Fire Insurance: Beware of the Easy Stuff, Fire Policies - Don't get burned!
- Insurance Defense - In Kentucky the Insured is Your Client - Not the Insurer
- KY Supreme Court Decision Alert: Davenport v. Kindred Hospitals Limited Partnership (2024)
- Underinsured Motorist - Avoid this Underinsured Motorist Malpractice Trap
Internet (23)
- Officer And Director Liability For Cyber Security Attacks
- Are You Competent to Practice the New Law of Lawyer Technology Competence?
- Are You Ready For An E-Device U.S. Border Search – AKA Digital Strip Search?
- Attorney’s Liability For Data Breaches
- Carefully Risk Manage Website E-Mail From Strangers Seeking Counsel
- Cyberspace, Malpractice, and You
- Deciding Whether To Use New Technology To Transmit Or Store Confidential Client Information
- Do I Need To Encrypt This Email?
- Does Your Firm Have a “BYOD to Work” Risk Management Program?
- Ethics Still Apply: Even When Your Head Is In The 'Cloud'
- Keeping Up With Social Media Risk Management
- Lawyer Website Disclaimers - Fact or Fiction?
- Risk Managing Advice to Clients on Social Media Matters
- Risk Managing Internet Social Network Investigations
- The Amazing Client Electronic Files
- The Impact of the Internet on a Lawyer's Standard of Care & Professional Responsibility – Part I
- The Impact of the Internet on a Lawyer's Standard of Care & Professional Responsibility – Part II
- The Kentucky Supreme Court Provides Guidance on Investigating Jurors on Social Media
- The Social Media and Lawyer Risk Management
- What Do You Really Know About Social Media Professional Responsibility?
- What Kentucky Lawyers Need to Know about the Ethics and Risk Management of Cloud Computing
- When is LinkedIn Attorney Advertising?
- Your New Client Wants to Pay Your Fee by Crowdfunding on the Internet.
Investigations (3)
Kentucky Consumer Protection Act (1)
Kentucky Rules of Professional Conduct (2)
Law Firms (18)
- A Guide to Setting Up and Running Your Law Practice
- An Attorney is Leaving the Firm; Now What?
- Beware of Business Client-Imposed Guidelines on Outside Counsel
- Boss Professional Responsibility
- Grabbing and Leaving - KBA Ethics Opinion 424
- Importance of Probate Bond in Estate Administration
- Law Firm Breakups
- Mergers – Risk Managing a Firm Merger
- Movin' On Redux
- Movin' On, Professional Responsibility, Risk Management and Lawyer Mobility
- Paralegal Pointers: Billing, Collections, and Year-End Revenue
- Sharing Offices: The Ethical, Risk Management, and Practical Considerations
- So You've Been Accused of Legal Malpractice? Well, Don't Just Do Something - Sit There!
- The Insurance Marketplace
- The Risk of Leveraging Your Practice with Part-Time Lawyers and Office Sharing
- The Secret Life of Client Files
- USPS Postmarking Changes
- Weighty Mail
Law-Related Services (1)
Lawyer Mobility (2)
Lawyer-to-Lawyer Consulting on Ethics and Malpractice Issues (2)
Leap Year (1)
Legal Malpractice Statute of Limitations (5)
- Beware of the Statute of Limitations in Personal Injury Cases When the Injury Occurs Outside Kentucky
- Civil Rule 60.02 Motion Does Not Toll the One-Year Statute of Limitations for Legal Malpractice Suits - KRS 413.245
- Missed Statutes of Limitation, Dog Cases, and Not Knowing What You Are Doing
- The Kentucky Supreme Court Locks Down the Legal Malpractice Statute of Limitations in Abel v. Austin (411 S.W. 3d 728 (Ky, 2013)
- The Supreme Court Clears the Air
Letters of Engagement, Nonengagement and Disengagement (8)
- Beware of Business Client-Imposed Guidelines on Outside Counsel
- Closing Letters: When Does A Client Become a Former Client?
- Letter of Engagement, Hourly Fees (Litigation)
- Letter of Engagement, Hourly Fees (Non-Litigation)
- Letter of Engagement, Optional Clauses
- Letters of Engagement are a Hot Topic with Insurers and Risk Managers
- Letters of Engagement, Contingency Fees
- Special Situations
Limited Liability Forms of Practice (2)
Limited Scope Representation (2)
Litigation (6)
- Beware the Phantom Statute of Limitations in Some UM and UIM Insurance Contracts
- Do Your Clients’ Litigation Funding Contracts Violate Kentucky’s Champerty Prohibition?
- Does Your Client Have Insurance For Litigation Expenses?
- Don’t Trip Over the Recent Kentucky Court of Appeals Interpretation of CR 8.01
- eFiling Rules Summary
- Kentucky Supreme Court in a Landmark Decision Addresses "Suit Within a Suit", Emotional Distress Claims, and Punitive Damages in Legal Malpractice Claims
Mail Risk Management (3)
Malpractice Claim Management (8)
- Hard Economic Times Mean More Malpractice Claims
- How Dumb Is This?: Lawyer Dumps Old Files in Dumpster and Other Dumb Stuff Lawyers Do
- Legal Malpractice in Kentucky: A 1996 Statistical Review of Kentucky Malpractice
- Legal Malpractice in Kentucky: A 2007 Statistical Review of Kentucky Malpractice
- So You've Been Accused of Legal Malpractice? Well, Don't Just Do Something - Sit There!
- Top Tips for Mitigating Malpractice Risk
- What Are a Transaction Lawyer’s Due Diligence Requirements When a Client’s Matter Raises a Suspicion of Illegality?
- What Is Your Duty To Notify Clients Of Malpractice And Other Errors? What About Insurers?
Malpractice Insurance (7)
- Choosing the Right Amount of Coverage
- Do You Need Higher Limits? Understanding Higher Limits Endorsements
- Failure to Comply with a Malpractice Insurance Policy “Claims Made” Reporting Requirement Could Cost Michigan Lawyer
- Incidents of Potential Malpractice are Not Incidental
- So You've Been Accused of Legal Malpractice? Well, Don't Just Do Something - Sit There!
- The Advantages of Purchasing Insurance Directly From an Insurance Company
- Understanding Tail Coverage – and Why It Matters for Every Lawyer
Malpractice Trends (5)
- Hard Economic Times Mean More Malpractice Claims
- Legal Malpractice in Kentucky: A 1996 Statistical Review of Kentucky Malpractice
- Legal Malpractice in Kentucky: A 2007 Statistical Review of Kentucky Malpractice
- National Conference Studies Malpractice and Risk Management Trends
- What We Learned About Legal Malpractice in Kentucky in 25 Years
Maternity Leave (1)
Mediation (1)
Medicare/Medicaid (2)
Mental Health (3)
Military Members (5)
- Advising Small Business Service-Disabled Veterans on Federal Contracting Preferences
- Keeping Up With the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act
- Keeping Up with the Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act (USFSPA) Is a Risk Management Must for Kentucky Lawyers Whose Practice Includes Divorce Matters
- Maintaining Competency When Advising Servicemembers and Their Families
- Service Members Civil Relief Act (SCRA) Signed Into Law
Minors/Clients with Diminished Capacity (1)
Multijurisdiction Practice (1)
Negligent Client Referral (1)
Negotiation and Settlement (15)
- A Checklist for Risk Managing Settlements
- Confidential Settlements, Kiss and Don't Tell
- Developing Malpractice Issues: Judgement Immunity
- Failure to Inform Client of Settlement Offer Costs Lawyer $84,000 in Fees
- Lying – Untruthful Negotiations
- Nationwide Family Lawyers Struggle with Marital Assets Settlements
- New Law Limits Sale of Structured Settlements
- Please Release Me - A Malpractice Trap for the Unwary
- Proving Actual Settlement Authority
- Risk Managing Aggregate Settlements
- Settlement Negotiations and the "Apparent Authority" Doctrine
- State Medicaid Subrogation Expanded
- Structured Settlements
- The Implications of Gallardo v. Marstiller
- Unsettling Settlements, And it's Malpractice Down the Home Stretch
Nonclient Liability (2)
Of Counsel (2)
Older Adult Representation (5)
- 2001 Malpractice Review: The Hazards of Representing Older Adults
- Clients Who Need Long-Term Care: Understanding Medicaid Eligibility for Your Clients & SCR 3.130 (1.1) Competent Representation
- Golden Oldies, The Graying of Professional Responsibility
- Risk Managing Conflicts of Interest when Advising the Elderly in Estate Planning
- The Ghosts of Clients Past – The Dangers of Financial Elder Abuse Claims Against Estate Planners
Paralegals and Legal Secretaries (3)
Powers of Attorney (1)
Pro Hac Vac (1)
Prospective Clients (4)
Real Estate (9)
- Avoiding Hidden Risks: The Dangers Attorneys Face When Performing Title and Lien Searches
- Avoiding Malpractice in Foreclosure Suits and Sales
- Don’t Let a Title Opinion Expose You to the Risk of Becoming the Deep Pockets When the Property Is Used as Security for a Business Loan that Goes Bad
- Lead-Based Paint: HUD Issues New Lead-Based Paint Hazard Regulation
- Real Estate – Title Examinations: Does Reliance on an Affidavit of Descent Properly Filed in the County Court Clerk’s Office Meet the Malpractice Standard of Care when Performing a Title Examination?
- Risk Management Lessons Learned from Other Jurisdictions: Negligent Escrow Agent Referrals
- SCAMS: Even Mega Law Firms Can Be Victims of Real Estate Settlement Fraud
- Test Your Title Search Expertise
- The Ten Commandments of Real Estate Closings
Retired Lawyers (2)
Scams (12)
- Are You Ready For The Next Scam Targeting Lawyers?
- Bar Association Scam Warnings
- Beware of Scams
- Cybersecurity and Wire Fraud
- Do You Know What a “Typosquatter” Is?
- Keeping Up with Lawyer Scams - Cryptolocker and Ransomware
- Lawyer Scams Continue to Plague Kentucky Lawyers
- Phishing Scams
- Scam Professional Responsibility
- SCAMS: Even Mega Law Firms Can Be Victims of Real Estate Settlement Fraud
- The Latest Scam of Special Interest to Lawyers: Client Deposits Lawyer's Trust Account By Phone Then Returns Check and Gets Wire Transfer From Lawyer
- What Are a Transaction Lawyer’s Due Diligence Requirements When a Client’s Matter Raises a Suspicion of Illegality?
Secretaries (2)
Sharing Offices (2)
Social Media (9)
- Avoid Ethics Violations in Responding to Harsh Criticism on the Social Media – If You Respond at All
- Does Your Firm Have a “BYOD to Work” Risk Management Program?
- Keeping Up With Social Media Risk Management
- Risk Managing Advice to Clients on Social Media Matters
- Risk Managing Internet Social Network Investigations
- The Kentucky Supreme Court Provides Guidance on Investigating Jurors on Social Media
- The Social Media and Lawyer Risk Management
- What Do You Really Know About Social Media Professional Responsibility?
- When is LinkedIn Attorney Advertising?
Statute of Limitations (3)
Taxes (3)
Termination of Representation (6)
- Closing Letters: When Does A Client Become a Former Client?
- Ending Representation – What “Material Adverse Effects” Prevent Permissive Withdrawal?
- How to Fire a Client
- Kentucky Lawyer’s Failure to Properly Withdraw from Representation Results in Criminal Contempt Finding
- Risk Managing Withdrawal for a Client’s Failure to Pay Fees
- Withdrawal Without Cause Results in Loss of Kentucky Lawyer’s Fees
Trusts and Estates (3)
Unauthorized Practice of Law (1)
Well Being (12)
- AI Usage Outside of Your Legal Practice to Improve Well-Being
- Back to School: Tips for Busy Lawyers and Their Families to Transition Smoothly from Summer to Fall
- Daily Schedule for Well-Being
- Do As I Say, Not As I Do
- Fall Fitness for Attorney Well-Being: Simple Ways to Move and Refresh After Work
- Maintaining well-being during the cold and often dreary month of February
- Rule 1.1, Comment (7): Competence and Mental Health
- Summer Vacation – A Guide to Taking One
- The Power of Mental Health Breaks
- The Power of Rest in the Legal Field
- Winter Wellness: 7 Tips for Staying Healthy During the Holidays
- “Deskercises” and Stretches
Wills and Probate (7)
- 2001 Malpractice Review: 2001 Federal Tax Law Shakes Up Estate Planning
- Beware of the Easy Stuff, Walk Carefully through Probate
- Boilerplate in Wills Continues to Cause Problems
- Estate Planning Malpractice Traps
- Kentucky Supreme Court Issues Firm Guidance for Lawyers Serving as Both Executor and Attorney for the Estate
- Risk Managing Estate Planning More Complex Than Ever
- Trust And Estates Now Viewed As The Riskiest Practice Area For Malpractice Claims