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Learning about Learning Together: What Real-Time Benchmarking at PLI Tells Us About Training

One of the more valuable (and perhaps underrated) features of compliance and ethics conferences is the opportunity they create for real-time benchmarking. ...more

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Every Experience is an Audition for Your Future

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As an attorney, I often focus on the immediate task at hand – reviewing the revised document from opposing counsel, the brief due next week, the client meeting tomorrow, or the upcoming deposition. Over time I’ve learned that...more

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Law Firms Must Prioritize Hiring for Curiosity and Work Ethic in the AI Era

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In today's rapidly evolving legal landscape, artificial intelligence is democratizing execution across the profession. As routine tasks become automated, the qualities that differentiate exceptional legal professionals are...more

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4 Key Takeaways | Professionalism Panel: Views from the Bench and Bar

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Kilpatrick recently hosted the annual “Susan A. Cahoon Annual Ethics & Professionalism Seminar.” The firm’s Associate General Counsel Betsy Hodges moderated a panel discussion on professionalism titled “Views from the Bench...more

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Nonrefundable Advanced Legal Fees are Per Se Unethical Under the Proposed New Rule of Professional Conduct 1.5(g)

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At its March 1, 2025, meeting, the VSB Council voted to approve changes to Rule of Professional Conduct 1.5. The proposed amendment to the Rule includes a new subjection (g), which codifies an understanding that has been...more

Goodell, DeVries, Leech & Dann, LLP

Legal Ethics: A More Civil Way to Practice Law

My new favorite judge is The Honorable R. David Proctor, chief U.S. district judge for the Northern District of Alabama. I love his Nov. 26, 2024 order granting an Opposed Motion Extension of Time to respond to a complaint....more

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

Litigators Weigh Need to Disclose AI Use to Clients

Many lawyers today are wrestling with the question of whether they should inform clients that artificial intelligence technologies are being used on their case matters. Ethical advice from state bar regulators has been slowly...more

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A Guide to Legal & Litigation Support Service Outsourcing

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The pandemic caused a wave of disruption throughout the legal system in 2020, and the ricocheting effects are still felt today. Initially, there was a substantial backlog of cases causing court dates to be continually pushed...more

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

AI in Law Practice Commanded Attention in 2023

Who would have thought that a profession not widely associated with tech savvy would be consumed with interest in artificial intelligence technologies in 2023? Yet that was certainly the case, as readership numbers for...more

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A Look at ABA Ethics Opinion 498 and What it Means for Your Firm

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Since the COVID-19 pandemic began approximately a year ago, millions of lawyers across the United States very quickly went from working in an office to working elsewhere. Home, a home office, a spare bedroom, their dining...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

[Webinar] Pride in the Profession: Ethics Issues Impacting LGBTQ+ Attorneys, Clients, and the Courts - June 25th, 12:00 pm CST

Hinshaw's Susie Dent will present a webinar titled "Pride in the Profession: Ethics Issues Impacting LGBTQ+ Attorneys, Clients, and the Courts," on June 25, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. Central. Attendees will hear about current ethics...more

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TN Ethics Opinion Approves Lawyers’ Cloud Storage of Client Data

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Tennessee has joined other states in formally approving lawyers’ cloud-storage of client-confidential data. The Board of Professional Responsibility (“BOPR”) held that lawyers ethically may use cloud storage for...more

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