The ABA Guide to Lawyer Trust Accounts

The ABA Guide to Lawyer Trust Accounts
Author: Jay G. Foonberg
Publisher: Section of Law Practice Management
Total Pages: 214
Release: 1996
Genre: Law
ISBN:

A comprehensive resource discussing lawyer's trust accounts. Includes rules regulating trust accounts and good trust account procedures.

Trust Accounting in One Hour for Lawyers

Trust Accounting in One Hour for Lawyers
Author: Sheila M. Blackford
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781634257398

One of the top reasons lawyers are disciplined or even disbarred is trust accounting done badly or ignored. Don't become part of that statistic! Trust accounting is one area that no one can afford to overlook, but busy lawyers don't have time or resources to waste. Lawyers who are leaving their law firms to establish their own solo practice or small firm need this simple primer to fulfill their ethical and fiduciary responsibilities to safeguard the money belonging to their clients. Trust Accounting in One Hour for Lawyers is a practical how-to book that will guide you quickly from opening your lawyer trust account to properly using it and providing accurate, timely accountings to your clients. In this book, author Sheila M. Blackford, an experienced practice management advisor, shares common sense advice to help busy lawyers and their staff safely and sanely adopt best practices and avoid ethical violations.

The American Bar Association Guide to Wills & Estates

The American Bar Association Guide to Wills & Estates
Author: American Bar Association
Publisher: Random House Reference &
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2009
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0375722998

Written in easy-to-read language with dozens of real-life examples, this book provides important information about mediation, arbitration, small claims court, and civil court procedures, and includes a chapter on working with a lawyer.

Model Rules of Professional Conduct

Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Author: American Bar Association. House of Delegates
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2007
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781590318737

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Red Flags

Red Flags
Author: Lawrence J. Fox
Publisher: ALI-ABA
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2005
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780831808624

This volume is a practical aid for lawyers dealing with all forms of ethics questions.

Maintaining Your Client Trust Accounts with Tabs3

Maintaining Your Client Trust Accounts with Tabs3
Author: Michael Trittipo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2019-03-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781081505660

Every lawyer in Minnesota who holds any money of clients or third persons in connection with a representation must deposit the money in one or more identifiable trust accounts, and must maintain certain records about those trust accounts, and be able to produce them at any time. Minnesota Rules of Professional Conduct Rule 1.15 ("MRPC") details the obligations. Rule 1.15 is supplemented every year by an "Appendix 1," written by the Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board ("LPRB"). Those two documents tell you what records you must keep, but mostly do not tell you how. Nor, our new lawyer members every year tell us, do the law schools provide any training on how to keep trust accounts. This guide is meant to show how you can meet your obligations using the "Trust Accounting Software" ("TAS") module in Tabs3. Other ways exist, and other software programs. The Minnesota State Bar Association ("MSBA") has authored guides for several. One reason for adding a guide for Tabs3 lies in the fact that Tabs3 as a whole offers more than just trust accounting. It includes practice and case management, too. More and more lawyers are using such integrated programs. But the Tabs3 help materials for its trust accounting modules tend to be focused at a very low level, and do not give a good overview beginning at the "big picture" level, but with step-by-step instructions. This guide intends to fill that gap.

A Practical Guide to Commercial Real Estate Transactions

A Practical Guide to Commercial Real Estate Transactions
Author: Gregory M. Stein
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 624
Release: 2016
Genre: Commercial real estate
ISBN: 9781634254861

For proven guidance and techniques for handling a commercial real estate deal, this practical guide will help you negotiate and close the deal. The authors cover each step of a real estate transaction in the order in which it generally arises, and offers pertinent advice, practice comments, and sample forms throughout. Because much of the real estate lawyer's practice revolves around transactional documents, the book's chapters emphasize the drafting, negotiation, and revision needed to get a deal closed. Written by a law professor and two real estate practitioners, this book offers a useful combination of text overview and practice pointers. It helps lawyers with less experience navigate through the maze of steps involved in a real estate transaction. At the same time, it serves as a valuable reference for more seasoned attorneys as well as those whose practice is concentrated in other areas of the law. Downloadable forms are available online.

The Lawyer's Guide to Family Business Succession Planning

The Lawyer's Guide to Family Business Succession Planning
Author: Gregory Monday
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2022-05-02
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781641056915

"This book provides lawyers with step-by-step guidance on how to lead family business owners through the succession planning process to produce a result that is tailored to the unique circumstances and objectives of the owners and their successors."--Back cover.

A Lawyer's Guide to Elder Law with Forms

A Lawyer's Guide to Elder Law with Forms
Author: L. Rush Hunt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781641055789

"This text is intended to provide a helpful introduction to the basics of what is today known as elder law"--