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RESOURCES

• Ethics Checklists
• Planning for Lawyer Retirement, Death or Disability
• Lawyer Advertising
• Supervising Nonlawyer Assistants (Annotated Model Rules of Professional Conduct, 6th Edition, Rule 5.3)

ARTICLES

• Ethics research: Resources and practical tips (Your ABA, December, 2009)
• Ethics checklists for solo and small firm practitioners (Your ABA, August, 2009)
• Reinventing the Wheel and Charging Your Client to Do It (GP Solo, December 2008)
• Piles of files (Your ABA, June 2008)
• Lawyer advertising (or incentivising): offering discounts or coupons to prospective clients (Your ABA, April 2008)
• From paper to kilobytes-updated (Your ABA, February, 2008)
• Equalizing the mentoring learning curve: What’s a new solo attorney to do without a mentor? (December, 2007)
• Top 10 Ethics Traps (ABA Journal, November, 2007)
• Are There Any Doctors or Associates in the House? (Your ABA, September, 2007)
• Can a Lawyer Accept Referral Fees or Commissions from Non-Lawyers? (Your ABA, June, 2007)
• Keeping Your Office Sharing Agreements with Other Lawyers Squeaky Clean Under the Ethics Rules (May, 2007)
• In Search of an Ethics Guide (Business Law Today, November/December 2006)
• Lawyers are Doctors, Too (ABA Journal, November, 2006)
• Whose File is it Anyway? (Your ABA, September, 2006)
• Would you like a financial plan with that? (Your ABA, February, 2006)

CLE PROGRAMS

• Top Ethics Traps for Lawyers (pod cast)
• Preventing Disciplinary Complaints (online)
• Strategies for Avoiding Conflicts of Interest (Audio CD package)
• How to Sell and/or Close a Law Firm: Workout with the Experts (Online audio course)

VIDEOS

• Professional Responsibility and the Solo or Small Firm Practitioner
  
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