The Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility practice group counsels, consults, advises, and educates lawyers on matters involving professional ethics and responsibility and related issues. These services range from interpretations of the Rules of Professional Conduct to the defense of lawyers who are the subject of disciplinary action by regulatory authorities and the courts, to providing expert testimony where lawyer professionalism and practice are at issue.
The areas in which this group can provide expert help to other lawyers include not only issues arising under the Rules of Professional Conduct, but related issues of client confidentiality, attorney work-product doctrine, attorney-client privilege, actions to disqualify lawyers, and law firms, and attorney-fee disputes.