Solo and Small Firm
The Practitioner Summer 2016, Volume 22, Issue 3
Content
- 7 Tips For a Successful Initial Prospective Client Interview
- Client Acquisition Strategy: I Get Referrals Because of My Socks
- Ethical and Practical Implications and differences between Sports Agents and Attorneys
- How Commercial Litigation Funding Can Help Small Firms and Solo Practitioners
- Letter From the Chair
- Letter From the Editor
- MCLE Article: Selected Issues in Bankruptcy Litigation
- Profile of Neil Pedersen 2016 Solo and Small Firm Section Attorney of the Year Award Recipient
- Table of Contents
- Who Owns "Work Product" ̶ the Attorney or the Client?
- MCLE Article: What To Do When the State Bar Calls
MCLE Article: What To Do When The State Bar Calls
By Megan Zavieh
Megan Zavieh focuses her practice on attorney ethics, representing attorneys facing state bar disciplinary action and providing guidance to practicing attorneys on questions of legal ethics. She has been representing attorneys facing disciplinary action before the California State Bar since 2009 and is admitted to practice in California, Georgia, New York and New Jersey, as well as in Federal District Court and the U.S. Supreme Court. She blogs at CaliforniaStateBarDefense.com and is a contributor at Lawyerist.com and AttorneyatWork.com.
(Check the end of this Article for information about how to access 1.0 self-study bias credits.)
When the State Bar sends you a letter of investigation, it can be terrifying. Many attorneys simply don’t open that "personal and confidential" envelope and hope it will just go away. Unfortunately, it never does, and not responding is not only a default on the underlying merits of the complaint filed against you, but it is also a violation of your duty to cooperate with the State Bar under Business & Professions Code § 6068(i).