Sometimes a bar association issues a decision that’s so impervious to the realities of legal practice that you have to wonder whether those who drafted it ever practiced law. That’s my thought about the Maryland Disciplinary Committee’s recent Ethics Decision, Ethics Docket 05-11, Participation in For-Profit Referral Organization with Non-Attorneys and discussed further in this
May 2005
Former Biglaw Telecom Attorney on the Cutting Edge in Solo Practice
I came across this March 2005 article by my colleague here in the D.C. area, Mark del Bianco entitled Being on the Cutting Edge. Among other things, the article offers both an amusing and realistic assessment of the benefits and occasional drawbacks to a small regulatory practitioner with a wide reaching Internet presence.
Malpractice Isn’t Only A Small Firm Problem
According to this National Law Journal article, How Small Firms Can Ward Off Malpractice, most legal malpractice actions are filed against small firms, with one to five attorneys:
Solos and small-firm attorneys find themselves particularly vulnerable to charges of malpractice. According to the American Bar Association,
most malpractice suits are filed against lawyers…