May a Lawyer Ethically Include an Arbitration Clause in an Engagement Letter?
Texas ethics expert David Hricik has posted an excellent article thoroughly reviewing the authorities across the nation on whether a lawyer may ethically request such provisions in their agreements with clients. http://www.hricik.com/eethics/1.2.html Finding Stuff: Ethics Resources Are Everywhere on the Internet The web has been a true blessing to the availability of materials on legal ethics. We’ll point you to some from time to time, but here are two very valuable “lists of lists,” that will lead you in very useful directions: The ABA Center for Professional Responsibility’s “Annotated Links to Other Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility Pages” includes links to the ethics rules of 40 jurisdictions and ethics opinions of 41 jurisdictions: http://www.abanet.org/cpr/links.html Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Brad Wendel’s “Legal Ethics Resources on the Web” includes short, useful descriptions of a number of vital sources of guidance on legal ethics: http://
