Texas Legal Malpractice & Lawyer Discipline 2021

by Charles F. Herring Jr., Jason M. Panzer, Leah Turner

Overview

Texas case law governing legal malpractice continues to develop rapidly, and ethics committees constantly issue new opinions and guidelines. Texas Legal Malpractice & Lawyer Discipline is a practical and easy-to-use book that walks attorneys through the minefield of modern lawyering. It includes major developments over the past year, with explanatory commentary, practice tips, and helpful charts.

This new edition contains the current law and rules concerning lawyer liability and discipline in Texas, as they have continued to develop and change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781588525307
Publisher:	ALM Media Properties, LLC
Publication date:	06/28/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1096
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Charles F. Herring, Jr., of Herring & Panzer, L.L.P., in Austin, is an experienced litigator and an expert who has intensively studied the quirks of legal malpractice and lawyer discipline in Texas, including the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct. With years of writing and speaking both in court and at CLE programs under his belt, Mr. Herring understands how to communicate complicated legal issues simply, clearly and thoroughly. He chaired the State Bar’s Special Committee for the Prevention of Legal Malpractice and for many years has taught at the Texas Center for Legal Ethics. He served as Chair of the Texas Supreme Court’s Statewide Sanctions Task Force, and served as a member of the Texas Supreme Court’s Advisory Committee and the Court’s Grievance Oversight Committee. Mr. Herring, a 1975 Honors graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, has published extensively and has worked with malpractice carriers to devise programs of risk avoidance.

 Jason M. Panzer, of Herring & Panzer, L.L.P., has spent much of his career litigating legal malpractice cases and handling lawyer-discipline cases across Texas. He is a 1996 Honors graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, and is a frequent lecturer at CLE events. Mr. Panzer served as briefing attorney at the Third Court of Appeals, and was named a Rising Star, Texas Super Lawyers—Professional Liability (2010).

 
Leah Turner, of Herring & Panzer, L.L.P., focuses her practice on the areas of legal ethics, legal malpractice, and lawyer discipline. She is a 2004 cum laude graduate of the University of Houston Law Center.
 

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Guide to Lawyers’ Duties and Liabilities
Chapter 3: Legal Malpractice in Texas
Chapter 4: Disciplinary Rules for Lawyers—Texas Disciplinary     Rules of Professional Conduct
Chapter 5: Texas Rules of Disciplinary Procedure
Chapter 6: Texas Lawyer’s Creed
Appendix A. Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct
Appendix B. Texas Rules of Disciplinary Procedure Post-6/1/2018
Appendix B-1. Texas Rules of Disciplinary Procedure Pre-6/1/2018
Appendix C. The Texas Lawyer’s Creed
Appendix D. Interpretive Comments to Part Seven of the     Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct
Appendix E. Supreme Court of Texas Board of Disciplinary Appeals     Internal Procedural Rules
Appendix F. State Bar of Texas Pro Bono Policy
Table of Cases
Index