Coach’s Corner: Put off a succession plan at your peril 

Posted: 8:00 am Fri, August 27, 2010
By Edward Poll

Last week’s column about sole practitioners’ succession planning noted that those lawyers who fail to do such planning face significant ethical consequences. That concern needs to be reviewed in more detail. The ethical implications of failing to plan for a practice’s future when the lawyer retires or dies are so severe that state bar associations are ...