America’s still-vibrant mosaic puts a continuing premium on language skills in many walks of life—including law practice. Recognizing the critical importance for lawyers and clients to understand each other, the WSBA earlier this year issued an advisory opinion discussing language access issues in law practice.
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As civil litigation has grown more complex, a problem that occurs with increasing frequency is the need to obtain discovery from a non-party that litigation counsel represents in unrelated matters.
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For many law firms, one of the most difficult risk-management issues they can face is receipt of a third-party subpoena seeking one of their client files.
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RPC 5.1 addresses the responsibility of lawyer-supervisors while RPC 5.2 outlines the corresponding duties of lawyer-subordinates. This column discusses different facets of those rules.
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Although most lawyers think their practice area is unique, only one group of practitioners has its own rule: prosecutors.
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Under the “hot potato” rule, a law firm cannot drop a client “like a hot potato” to avoid a conflict.
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