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An Attorney's Ethical Obligations to the Client in Third-Party Funded Litigation

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The landscape of legal practice has significantly changed due to the proliferation of third-party litigation funding, a financial mechanism that provides capital to plaintiffs, including patent owners, in exchange for an...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Law Firm MSOs and Legal Ethics Regulations: Lessons from Texas Opinion 706

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The Professional Ethics Committee for the State Bar of Texas (Committee) in February 2025 issued Opinion No. 706, the first ethics opinion that squarely addressed the use of law firm management service organizations (MSOs)....more

Womble Bond Dickinson

You Make a Mistake. Should You Continue to Represent the Client?

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“To err is human, to forgive, divine.” But how many of us have godlike clients? At some point in their careers, most lawyers will make a mistake, whether trivial or significant in terms of the representation or the outcome of...more

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