Lessons to Pass Along:
Complaints About Lawyers in 2012
By Scott Morrill
Enforcing the Rules: A
Look at Lawyer Discipline
in Oregon
By Jeff Sapiro
Client Security Fund:
2013 Annual Report
By Sylvia Stevens
Changes of Note:
New Developments in the Rules of Professional Conduct
By Helen Hierschbiel
Vanished Without a Trace:
Ethics Implications of the
Missing Client, Part II
By Amber Hollister
Lost and Found:
Ethics Implications of the Missing Client, Part I
By Amber Hollister
Lawyers Helping Lawyers:
Hypothetically Speaking
By Helen Hierschbiel
Seeking New Horizons:
Ethical Duties When Changing Law Firms
By Amber Hollister
Ill-Gotten Gains:
Rules for Privileged or Purloined Documents
By Helen Hierschbiel
Revealing Bits & Bytes:
Guarding (and Exploiting) Metadata
By Helen Hierschbiel
The Many Faces of UPL:
Protecting the Public from the Unlawful Practice of Law
By Amber Hollister
Complaints About Oregon Lawyers:
2011 Trends from the OSB's Client Assistance Office
By Scott Morrill
Client Security Fund:
2012 Annual Report
By Sylvia Stevens
Asked and Answered:
FAQs of 2011
By Helen Hierschbiel
The Spirit of Giving: Pitfalls of Gift-giving and Free Advice
By Amber Hollister
Alternative Pricing Models: What's in a Fee?
By Helen Hierschbiel
How Much Do I Owe You?:
"New" Guidelines for Fixed and So-called Nonrefundable Fees
By Amber Hollister
Disclosing Client Confidences:
When Doing the "Right" Thing May be the Wrong Thing to Do
By Helen Hierschbiel
Unbundling Legal Services: Limiting the Scope of Representation
By Amber Hollister
Duty of Loyalty: The Many Faces of Mentoring
By Helen Hierschbiel
What Hath the Web Wrought?
Advertising in the Internet Age
By Amber Hollister
Frequently Asked
Questions: Avoiding Contact
with Represented Parties
By Helen Hierschbiel
Client Security Fund:
2010 Annual Report
By Sylvia Stevens
Disbursing Disputed Funds:
Understanding RPC 1.15-1(d)(e)
By Scott Morrill
Multidisciplinary practice:
When Wearing Two Hats
May Get You Burned
By Helen Hierschbiel
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do:
How to End a Relationship,
Part II
By Scott Morrill
Tying Up Loose Ends: How to End a Relationship
By Helen Hierschbiel
There Oughtta Be a Rule (But There Isn't)
By Sylvia Stevens
Odds & Ends:
Safeguarding Client
Information in a
Digital World
By Helen Hierschbiel
May We Help You? Ethics
Advice Made Easy
By Sylvia Stevens
Scammers Take Aim at
Lawyers:
How to Avoid
Becoming the Next Victim
By Helen Hierschbiel
Fund of Grace:
Client Security Fund Annual Report
By Sylvia Stevens
Prospective Clients:
Effective Use of RPC 1.18
By Sylvia Stevens
When is Withdrawal Warranted?:
Representing Clients Who File Claims Against You
By Helen Hierschbiel
Conflicts, Part II:
Former Client Conflicts
By Sylvia Stevens
Social Media for Lawyers:
A Word of Caution
By Helen Hierschbiel
Conflicts of Interest:
A
Periodic Series, Part 1
By Sylvia Stevens
Pitfalls and Perils:
Working With Loan Modification Agencies
By Helen Hierschbiel
Avoid Serving Two Masters:
Take Care in Accepting Payment From Someone Other Than Your Client
By Sylvia Stevens
Top 10 Myths:
The Duty of Confidentiality
By Helen Hierschbiel
The ABCs of the CSF:
Client Security Fund
2008 Annual Report
By Sylvia E. Stevens
Going Paperless:
Ethical considerations
By Helen Hierschbiel
Broken Record:
Report of the Client Assistance Office
By Chris Mullmann
Cultural Competency:
Is there an ethical duty?
By Sylvia E. Stevens
The Transformation:
When fee disputes become ethical misconduct
By Helen Hierschbiel
Outsourcing Overseas:
Protecting client rights
By Helen Hierschbiel
Trust Accounts and
the FDIC:
Protecting client funds in uncertain times
By Sylvia Stevens
Managing the Dual Roles:
The ethics of serving on corporate boards
By Helen Hierschbiel
Trust Account Lessons:
Cautionary Notes
By Sylvia Stevens
Client Information Subpoenas:
Responding, Protecting Client Confidences
By Helen Hierschbiel
What Can You Do?:
When a client repudiates
a settlement
By Sylvia Stevens
Ethical Negotiations:
An oxymoron?
By Helen Hierschbiel
Reimbursing Lawyer Thefts:
OSB Client Security Fund 2007 annual report
By Sylvia Stevens
Internet Marketing:
Rules of the road
By Helen Hierschbiel
New Ethics Guidance:
A Roundup of Recent Formal Ethics Opinions
From the OSB, the ABA and More
By Sylvia Stevens
Stricter Rules:
Public Lawyers Negotiating For Private Employment
By Helen Hierschbiel
Lawyer as Witness:
Preserving the Distinction Between Advocacy and Evidence
By Helen Hierschbiel
Let's Talk:
The Value of Good Client Communication
By Sylvia Stevens
The Ethics of Unbundling:
How to Avoid the Land Mines of "Discrete Task Representation"
By Helen Hierschbiel
A UPL Conundrum:
Where to Draw the
Boundaries on Out-of-State Practice
By Sylvia E. Stevens
On the Move:
Ethical duties when switching law firms
By Helen Hierschbiel
Metadata:
Guarding against the disclosure of embedded information
By Sylvia E. Stevens
Fee Disputes:
Preventable or inevitable?
By Helen Hierschbiel
Work in Progress:
Oregon RPC amendments you should know about
By Sylvia E. Stevens
Who Decides?:
The lawyer, the client or the court?
By Chris Mullmann
Whats in a Name?:
Things to consider before hanging that shingle
By Sylvia E. Stevens
Former Client Conflicts:
Differences without (much) distinction
By Helen Hierschbiel
Matters of Estate:
Ethical considerations for probate practitioners
By Scott Morrill
Do the Right Thing:
The duty required of lawyers receiving inadvertently sent documents
By Chris Mullmann
Waiting for Go Dough:
A primer on disbursing client funds
By Sylvia E. Stevens
Difficult Paradigm:
Are lien rights absolute?
By Helen Hierschbiel
Lessons Learned:
Results from the Client Assistance Office survey
By Scott Morrill
Q & A:
Understanding the OSB Disciplinary Board
By George A. Riemer
Client Files, Revisited:
More light on a topic that wont go away
By Helen Hierschbiel
So You Think …:
Your IOLTA account is safe from identity theft, right?
By Chris Mullmann
Making It Clear:
A better ex parte rule?
By Sylvia Stevens
Exerting Pressure:
Professionalism, ethics rules or just plain common sense
By Scott Morrill
10 Pieces of Advice:
Recent formal ethics opinions from the ABA
By George A. Riemer
Whither Zeal?:
Defining zealous representation
By Sylvia Stevens
Meet the Client:
Considering the duties owed to prospective clients
By Chris Mullmann
Keeping in the Loop:
Communication is the Key
By Helen Hierschbiel
Keeping Secrets:
Disclosing client confidences or secrets in defense of a complaint
By Scott Morrill
Essential Reading:
Top 10 changes in the new Rules of Professional Conduct
By George A. Riemer
Divided Rule:
IOLTA and safeguarding property rule changes
By Sylvia E. Stevens
Organization as Client:
New Rule 1.13 of the approved Oregon Rules of Professional Conduct
By Chris Mullmann
Supervising Nonlawyers:
The watchwords are "train" and "supervise"
By Helen Hierschbiel
Clearing the Error:
DR 5-101(A) revisited
By Scott Morrill
Making Advances:
Things to consider before advancing money to clients
By Sylvia E. Stevens
The Invisible Door:
Confidentiality meets wireless technology
By George A. Riemer
Advertising Update:
Plus, lawyer membership in business referral clubs
By Chris Mullman
Impaired Clients:
Challenging and unique ethical considerations
By Helen Hierschbiel
After The Complaint:
Continuing representation after a client has filed a greivance
By Scott Morrill
The Secrets We Keep:
A review of the duty of confidentiality
By Sylvia E. Stevens
Client Assistance:
A preliminary report
By Chris L. Mullmann
SEC v. State Bars?:
Preemption showdowns could be on the horizon
By George A. Riemer
Things Look Different Here:
House of Delegates approves new disciplinary rules
By Sylvia E. Stevens
The Long Arm of the Law:
Jurisdiction and choice of law in disciplinary proceedings
By George A. Riemer
Changing the Rules:
Rewriting our DRs, Part II
By Sylvia E. Stevens
A Fine Line:
When does giving legal advice become assisting with fraud?
By Sylvia E. Stevens
New DR 1-105:
Written ethics advisory opinions
By George A. Riemer
A Model Approach:
Rewriting our disciplinary rules
By Sylvia E. Stevens
CSF Update 2002:
The annual report of the OSB Client Security Fund
By Sylvia E. Stevens
Panacea or Quagmire?
Defining 'the practice of law'
By George A. Riemer
Client Files, Revisited:
What goes in them – and who owns them
By Sylvia E. Stevens
Conscripted Labor:
Can Oregon lawyers be compelled to represent indigents for free?
By George A. Riemer
Joining Forces:
Practicing law in other jurisdiction on a temporary basis
By George A. Riemer
Written Fee Agreements
By Sylvia E. Stevens
Ethics Rules:
Too many, too confusing?
By George A. Riemer
Ethics, Post 9/11:
Federal anti-terrorism regulations raise ethics issues
By Sylvia E. Stevens
New Admission Rule:
Expanding the practice capabilities of corporate lawyers
By George A. Riemer
Discipline Task Force:
What is it? What has it been doing?
By George A. Riemer
DR News:
New (and evolving) developments in the disciplinary rules
By Sylvia E. Stevens
Tri-state Practice:
Charting a course for ethical practice reciprocity admission
By George A. Riemer
CSF Update:
The annual report of the OSB Client Security Fund
By Sylvia E. Stevens
Final Reward:
Compensating the lawyer/personal representative
By Sylvia E. Stevens
MJP Update:
A survey of developments in multijurisdictional practice
By George A. Riemer
Making Contact:
The rules for contacting employees
By Sylvia E. Stevens
Officers of the Court:
What does it mean?
By George A. Riemer
Blind Justice Awards:
(You may want to look the other way)
By Sylvia E. Stevens
Limited Practices:
Is there a 'federal law only' exception?
By George Riemer
A New Requirement:
MCLE Rule 3.3, and what it means to you
By Sylvia E. Stevens
Tri-State Reciprocity:
It is possible it will become a reality
By George A. Riemer
Full Disclosure:
What it is, and isn't
By Sylvia E. Stevens
Telephone Ethics Assistance:
What it is, what it isn't, and other resources
By George Riemer
CSF Update:
The annual report of the OSB Client Security Fund
By Sylvia E. Stevens
Money Troubles:
What to do with unearned fees
By Sylvia E. Stevens
Stock for Fees?:
Guidance for ownership interests in clients
By George Riemer
The 'Pushmi-Pullyu':
Resolving third-party claims to client funds
By Sylvia E. Stevens
Charge It?:
Credit cards and lawyer trust accounts
By George A. Riemer
Multidisciplinary Practice:
Hither Oregon?
By George A. Riemer