Category Archives: Corporate/Transactional/ Contract

The California Veterinary Medical Board (“Board”) is in the process of adopting a new regulation to establish “minimum standards” for a managing licensee of a veterinary hospital premise. Under the current regulations, it is the responsibility of the managing veterinarian … Continue reading

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Wanton wontons.  Would you trust an attorney who deliberately skipped out without paying for her soup at the local Peking Dragon restaurant?  What is moral turpitude?  Is it like pornography?  Would you know it when you see it?

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    Rule 2-100(A) of the Rules of Professional Conduct states:  “While representing a client, a member shall not communicate directly or indirectly about the subject of the representation with a party the member knows to be represented by another lawyer … Continue reading

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When I was a kid I used to wonder how people knew that police officers were good and could be trusted.  Did they raise police separately to make sure only good people became part of the force?  How could all … Continue reading

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A woman had a legal problem; she was worried that her neighbors might sue her over a fencing issue.  At the first meeting with her new attorney he advised her that to put herself in the best possible legal position, … Continue reading

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Certain events are seasonal. One annual event I like to recall is the annual publishing of the local telephone book yellow pages. Why? Because every year there would be a tide of complaints followed by a trickle when the new … Continue reading

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In my last post, I discussed the obligations of an attorney to respond to a client’s request for a status update, rather than when terminating the relationship.  Here, I discuss the client’s rights to her file upon ending the attorney-client … Continue reading

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This may be a somewhat apocryphal story, but I’m sitting in my office, working very hard on something (surely) when I am alerted that an emergency is afoot. Upon inquiry, I discover that some attorney, somewhere, has a client at … Continue reading

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In all the years I worked for the State Bar as a senior attorney for the Office of Trial Counsel, and all the literally thousands of complaints against attorneys I reviewed, I never saw a client who complained that his … Continue reading

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