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2012

Asked and Answered:
FAQs of 2011
By Helen Hierschbiel

2011

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

August/September

Disclosing Client Confidences:
When Doing the "Right" Thing May be the Wrong Thing to Do
By Helen Hierschbiel

July

Unbundling Legal Services: Limiting the Scope of Representation
By Amber Hollister

June

Duty of Loyalty: The Many Faces of Mentoring
By Helen Hierschbiel

May

What Hath the Web Wrought?
Advertising in the Internet Age
By Amber Hollister

Frequently Asked
Questions: Avoiding Contact
with Represented Parties
By Helen Hierschbiel

February/March

Client Security Fund:
2010 Annual Report
By Sylvia Stevens

Disbursing Disputed Funds:
Understanding RPC 1.15-1(d)(e)
By Scott Morrill

2010

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

August/September

There Oughtta Be a Rule (But There Isn't)
By Sylvia Stevens

July

Odds & Ends: Safeguarding Client Information in a Digital World
By Helen Hierschbiel

June

May We Help You? Ethics Advice Made Easy
By Sylvia Stevens

May

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

February/March

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

2009

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

August/September

Pitfalls and Perils:
Working With Loan Modification Agencies
By Helen Hierschbiel

July

Avoid Serving Two Masters:
Take Care in Accepting Payment From Someone Other Than Your Client
By Sylvia Stevens

June

Top 10 Myths:
The Duty of Confidentiality
By Helen Hierschbiel

May

The ABCs of the CSF:
Client Security Fund 2008 Annual Report
By Sylvia E. Stevens

Going Paperless:
Ethical considerations
By Helen Hierschbiel

February/March

Broken Record:
Report of the Client Assistance Office
By Chris Mullmann

Cultural Competency:
Is there an ethical duty?
By Sylvia E. Stevens

2008

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

August/September

Managing the Dual Roles:
The ethics of serving on corporate boards
By Helen Hierschbiel

July

Trust Account Lessons:
Cautionary Notes
By Sylvia Stevens

June

Client Information Subpoenas:
Responding, Protecting Client Confidences
By Helen Hierschbiel

May

What Can You Do?:
When a client repudiates a settlement
By Sylvia Stevens

Ethical Negotiations:
An oxymoron?
By Helen Hierschbiel

February/March

Reimbursing Lawyer Thefts:
OSB Client Security Fund 2007 annual report
By Sylvia Stevens

Internet Marketing:
Rules of the road
By Helen Hierschbiel

2007

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

August/September

Let's Talk:
The Value of Good Client Communication
By Sylvia Stevens

July

The Ethics of Unbundling:
How to Avoid the Land Mines of "Discrete Task Representation"
By Helen Hierschbiel

June

A UPL Conundrum:
Where to Draw the Boundaries on Out-of-State Practice
By Sylvia E. Stevens

May

On the Move:
Ethical duties when switching law firms
By Helen Hierschbiel

Metadata:
Guarding against the disclosure of embedded information
By Sylvia E. Stevens

February/March

Fee Disputes:
Preventable or inevitable?
By Helen Hierschbiel

Work in Progress:
Oregon RPC amendments you should know about
By Sylvia E. Stevens

2006

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

August/September

Matters of Estate:
Ethical considerations for probate practitioners
By Scott Morrill

July

Do the Right Thing:
The duty required of lawyers receiving inadvertently sent documents
By Chris Mullmann

June

Waiting for Go Dough:
A primer on disbursing client funds
By Sylvia E. Stevens

May

Difficult Paradigm:
Are lien rights absolute?
By Helen Hierschbiel

Lessons Learned:
Results from the Client Assistance Office survey
By Scott Morrill

February/March

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

2005

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

August/September

10 Pieces of Advice:
Recent formal ethics opinions from the ABA
By George A. Riemer

July

Whither Zeal?:
Defining zealous representation
By Sylvia Stevens

June

Meet the Client:
Considering the duties owed to prospective clients
By Chris Mullmann

May

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

February/March

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

2004

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

August/September

Making Advances:
Things to consider before advancing money to clients
By Sylvia E. Stevens

July

The Invisible Door:
Confidentiality meets wireless technology
By George A. Riemer

June

Advertising Update:
Plus, lawyer membership in business referral clubs
By Chris Mullman

May

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

February/March

The Secrets We Keep:
A review of the duty of confidentiality
By Sylvia E. Stevens

Client Assistance:
A preliminary report
By Chris L. Mullmann

2003

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

August/September

Changing the Rules:
Rewriting our DRs, Part II
By Sylvia E. Stevens

July

A Fine Line:
When does giving legal advice become assisting with fraud?
By Sylvia E. Stevens

June

New DR 1-105:
Written ethics advisory opinions
By George A. Riemer

May

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

February/March

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

2002

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

August/September

Ethics Rules:
Too many, too confusing?
By George A. Riemer

July

Ethics, Post 9/11:
Federal anti-terrorism regulations raise ethics issues
By Sylvia E. Stevens

June

New Admission Rule:
Expanding the practice capabilities of corporate lawyers
By George A. Riemer

May

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

February/March

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

2001

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

August/September

Officers of the Court:
What does it mean?
By George A. Riemer

July

Blind Justice Awards:
(You may want to look the other way)
By Sylvia E. Stevens

June

Limited Practices:
Is there a 'federal law only' exception?
By George Riemer

May

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

February/March

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

2000

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

August/September

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