Duties
An attorney has a duty to keep his or her client's secrets.
Confidentiality
This is a written statement given under oath.
Affidavit
Taking away a lawyer's license to practice law, presumably forever.
Disbarment
When an attorney or paralegal charges two different clients for the same period of time; it's unethical.
Double billing
Many ethical violations are tied to mental illness, addictions, and stress. What is the best way to avoid or lessen these problems, according to Justice David (with your instructor in concurrence)?
Self-care (work-life balance, hobbies, self-awareness, etc.)
An attorney has a duty to avoid this situation in which she represents a client against a current or former client.
Conflict of interest.
If you ask someone in person to hire you as their lawyer, you are doing this. (It may or may not be ethical, depending on the circumstances.)
Solicitation
This is the main penalty paralegals face for engaging in unethical conduct.
Being fired
The account where an attorney should keep unearned fees and money that belongs to the client or someone else.
IOLTA
An attorney is expected to engage in this activity with regard to junior attorneys and paralegals in his or her office. Failure to do so makes their ethical problems his/her ethical problems.
Supervision
In this duty, an attorney has a duty to show respect for the law, and just all-around be a good and decent person, even outside of the law office.
Integrity
This Indiana program assists judges, lawyers, and law students with substance abuse or mental health issues.
JLAP
When an attorney is not allowed to practice law for a set period of time
Suspension
An attorney and client should enter into this sort of contract so that the client knows exactly how much the attorney is going to bill him or her.
Fee agreement
This is an umbrella term for regular client contact. Attorneys who stay on top of this are less likely to face ethics charges.
Communication
An attorney has a duty to know how to practice law, of course. What's this duty called?
Duty of competency.
This is the legal term that means the question no longer matters; the issue has gone away.
Moot
The lightest disciplinary penalty an attorney can face; it amounts to a stern talking to.
Censure or admonishment
In this type of arrangement, the client only pays the attorney if the attorney wins the case.
Contingency fee
We don't want to miss a deadline! That would be an ethical issue all by itself. So we (or, often, our paralegals) engage in this activity
Calendaring
An attorney needs to give her client's case her all--but not so much, of course, that she breaks the law.
Diligent representation
This is a crime that only attorneys can commit; it means to ask or allow someone to give false testimony under oath.
Suborn perjury
An attorney who has been suspended may be subject to this automatically, or might have to reapply to get her license back; this is the term for being re-allowed to practice after a suspension.
Reinstatement
The money that the client gives the attorney at the start of representation; it represents fees paid in advance
Retainer
We just hired a new paralegal away from opposing counsel. How do we avoid problems on our shared cases that she worked on at her previous employer?
Chinese wall/ethical wall