Business Law
Business Law News 2019, Issue 2
Content
- 2017-2018 Commercial Law Developments, Part I.E (Priority)
- Bln Editorial Board: Letter from the Editor
- Business Law News Editorial Team
- Business Law News Table of Contents
- Executive Committee: Message from the Chair
- Executive Committee of the Business Law Section 2018-2019
- Standing Committee Officers of the Business Law Section 2018-2019
- The Abc's of Employment: Sports Industry Misclassification Issues in the Era of Dynamex
- The Dangerous Allure of Form Loan Documents
- Settlement Negotiation Ethics for Attorney-Advocates under California's New (2018) Rules of Professional Conduct: Part Two
Settlement Negotiation Ethics for Attorney-Advocates under California’s New (2018) Rules of Professional Conduct: Part Two
Phillip Neiman, Esq., JAMS
Phillip Neiman is a mediator and arbitrator with JAMS. He devotes much of his practice to commercial cases, employment, real property, trust/estate, consumer, and insurance matters, and disputes involving privacy torts and significant personal injuries. Mr. Neiman was previously CEO and General Counsel of a FINRA-registered broker-dealer.
Introduction
Formally, California defines ethical conduct for lawyers in the context of rule-compliance. The supreme court made this clear in 2014 in its letter to the State Bar establishing a second new commission to rewrite the Rules of Professional Conduct.1 The court instructed the Bar to "avoid incorporating the purely aspirational or ethical considerations that are present in the [ABA] Model Rules and Comments."