There are various ways in which lawyers can run into legal-related problems or issues of legal ethics including civil lawsuits, legal malpractice, and breach of fiduciary duty or lawyer criminality and its consequences for discipline.
Topics: legal malpractice, legal ethics, civil lawsuits, fiduciary duty, lawyer criminality, and discipline.
The Happy Lawyer–Part Two: The Empirical
Michael Sean Quinn, Ph.D, J.D., Etc. 1300 West Lynn #208 Austin, Texas 78703 (o) 512-296-2594 (c) 512-656-0503 mquinn@msqlaw.com II. The Empirical The reader may skip the bracketed small type,if s/he wishes. They are my comments.(Maybe there's too many of them,...
A Lawyer’s Mistakes & the Challenge of Attorney Errors
Michael Sean Quinn, Ph.D, J.D.*, Etc. 1300 West Lynn Suite 208 Austin, Texas 78703 (o) 512-296-2594 (c) 512-656-0503 mquinn@msqlaw.com (*Resumes: www.michaelseanquinn.com) Everyone agrees that at least some mistakes are good for the person making them. They are...
Bibliography: In-House Counsel
Richard Susskind published a book called TOMORROW'S LAWYERS (Oxford U.P.*2003). He predicted that there would be more in-house counsel in the future. He appears to have been right as of now (10/15/14). At the same time, when he made that prediction in 2003, he...
CLE FOLLIES: TOPICAL, DESIGN, AND PRESENTATIONAL ERRORS
WHAT'S CLE ABOUT EVEN AT LUNCH Michael Sean Quinn, Ph.D, J.D., Etc.* Maxim: Avoid accepting invitations to give supposedly amusing lunch talks at CLE "conferences." It's thankless and blunder ridden. BACKGROUND Several years ago, I was asked...
CLE: A Lesson Regarding Presentation–Errors–Part II
Valuable Errors Michael Sean Quinn, Ph.D, J.D., Etc. 2630 Exposition Blvd #115 Austin, Texas 78703 (o) 512-296-2594 (c) 512-656-0503 mquinn@msqlaw.com This is a blog-essay regarding CLE matters. Part I was about conceptions, some how to/s, some what not/s, and a...
Lawyer How-To: “Are you certain about that?” (Sketch II)
I wrote about this topic one time before. It was entitled Sketch I ******************************************************************************* "Are you certain?" is a trap question. (1) If you say "Yes" and you are wrong about what you say to any degree or...
CLEs: Lessons Regarding Lectures and Programs–Part I
Michael Sean Quinn, Ph.D, J.D., Etc.* 1300 West Lynn Suite 208 Austin, Texas 78703 (o) 512-296-2594 (c) 512-656-0503 mquinn@msqlaw.com *Resume: www.michaelseanquinn.com I have been giving CLE lectures almost regularly for 15 years, or so. Generally speaking, there are...
Legal Malpractice: “The Case-Within-the-Case” Rule
It has been almost universally accepted amongst lawyers, who are knowledgeable on the relevant topics, that the "Case-Within-the-Case" Rule ("Rule") applies to all legal malpractice. Actually, this has never been the rule. It has never been applied to...
Deposition: “Wouldn’t it be prudent to do x?
DEPOSITION QUESTIONS ON PRUDENCE AND WISDOM Not long ago, I wrote and posted a short squib about deposition questions on the prudence and/or wisdom of doing something, asking for something, or investigating something. It is to be found on the blog Insurance Law. ...
“A Business Decision”
I was just reading a deposition in which the soon-to-be Purchaser of a company did not contact a bank about a loan it had made to the Seller. The failure to contact was a disaster: litigation only lawyers can love. When asked about why he did not contact the bank,...
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