Title
Preventing Legal Malpractice and Disciplinary Complaints: Ethics Audits as a Risk-Management Tool
Document Type
Article
Publication Year
2015
Journal Title
Business Law Today
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
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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