Minnesota Lawyer

Rule 1.5 of the Minnesota Rules of Professional Conduct (MRPC) provides in part that a lawyer’s fee shall be reasonable. The Minnesota Supreme Court has ...

“Civility” is a hot topic in the legal profession these days, to the point that the Supreme Court has even adopted Professionalism Aspirations for lawyers. ...

The California appellate court has recently addressed the enforceability of a fee sharing agreement and has determined that the failure to strictly comply with the ...

As anyone familiar with the attorney discipline system knows, when clients complain to the Director’s Office it is frequently about their lawyers’ failure to act ...

The purpose of attorney discipline is to protect the public, the profession and the administration of justice. When attorneys commit serious misconduct individual members of ...

The improper handling of retainers has often resulted in discipline of the offending attorney. (See “Summary of Admonitions,” in the March 2001 issue of Bench ...

When a lawyer leaves one private firm and joins another, whether at the partner or associate level, there are conflict of interest issues that must ...

When settling a case does the lawyer have an ethical obligation to ensure that third parties are paid for services provided to the client? For ...

Most lawyers know they have the responsibility to train and supervise nonlawyer assistants and can be held responsible for their mistakes. Lawyers may not know, ...

So, you finally passed the bar, paid the fee to the Attorney Registration Office, got sworn in along with about a thousand other new admittees, ...