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Read MoreContents FEATURE ARTICLE: Lawyer Fee Basics: Reasonableness NEW AUTHORITY: Useful References on Legal Fees ETHICS & MALPRACTICE RESEARCH TIP: New Articles Drawn from The Current Index of Legal Periodicals BLAST FROM THE PAST: A Comparison of Kansas and Missouri Attorney Ethics Statutes from 1820–1855 EDITED BY: Professor Mike Hoeflich PUBLISHED BY: Joseph, Hollander & Craft LLC […]
Read MoreJune 2022 LEMR Article This article is featured in Volume 3, Number 6 of the Legal Ethics and Malpractice Reporter. This month’s LEMR “authority” feature provides a select list of useful references to accompany the lead article’s focus on legal fees. Books: M. Hoeflich, C. Steadham, S. Valdez, “Ethical Concerns Regarding Fees and Billing,” in […]
Read MoreJune 2022 LEMR Feature Article This article is featured in Volume 3, Number 6 of the Legal Ethics and Malpractice Reporter. U.S. State codes of professional responsibility based on the Model Rules generally have a fundamental requirement that a lawyers’ fees be reasonable. In Kansas, KRPC 1.5(a) states: (a) A lawyer’s fee shall be reasonable. The […]
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May 2022 LEMR Article This article is featured in Volume 3, Number 5 of the Legal Ethics and Malpractice Reporter. Over the past several years, many businesses, social organizations, and educational institutions have led initiatives to encourage individuals to declare their preferred gender pronouns. We now often see this reflected in the signature to emails, […]
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May 2022 LEMR Lead Article This article is featured in Volume 3, Number 5 of the Legal Ethics and Malpractice Reporter. What better time than the quiet days of summer to review one of the most basic and most important sets of rules regarding lawyer behavior—rules regulating fees? Model Rule 1.5 is the basis for […]
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