Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-2015
Journal Title
Business Law Today
ISSN
1059-9436
Abstract
This column examines the value of firm lawyers conducting and supporting ethics audits as an integral feature of a comprehensive risk-management program. For decades, legal malpractice experts have urged lawyers to implement systems, policies, and procedures related to the delivery of legal services. Once a firm adopts systems, policies, and procedures, a meaningful risk-management system requires a periodic examination to monitor lawyers’ compliance. Rather than waiting for a professional liability insurer to recommend or require such a systematic examination, proactive firm leaders and lawyers should seriously consider devoting time and resources to periodic ethics audits.
First Page
1
Last Page
2
Num Pages
2
Volume Number
2015
Issue Number
March
Publisher
American Bar Association
Recommended Citation
Susan S. Fortney,
Preventing Legal Malpractice and Disciplinary Complaints: Ethics Audits as a Risk-Management Tool,
2015
Bus. L. Today
1
(2015).
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