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Suing your clients for unpaid fees often leads to claims of malpractice or complaints to your law society. It is a collection strategy best avoided. In his recent post on the Lawyers Mutual blog, Jay Reeves lays out 9 tips to handle unpaid legal fees and concludes that: “…the truth is everybody loses in a fee suit. In fact, by the time it reaches that point the lawyer has already lost.” The Canadian Lawyers Insurance Association provides loss prevention information solely for the benefit of CLIA insured lawyers. The content and links provided in Loss Prevention eBytes are intended as resources to qualified lawyers who should exercise due care and their professional judgment in adapting or making use of any content.
A hard drive containing a backup of client data was stolen from the locked trunk of an employee of U.S. criminal defense firm, Imhoff & Associates, PC this summer. The theft, as reported in SC Magazine, took place in late June and as of late August the hard drive had not been recovered. The hard drive contained personal information about clients, including social security numbers, driver license numbers, names, addresses, emails and more. The lesson here, as noted by Sharon D. Nelson in her blog post on Ride the Lightning, is for law firms to “…encrypt, encrypt, encrypt!” The Canadian Lawyers Insurance Association provides loss prevention information solely for the benefit of CLIA insured lawyers. The content and links provided in Loss Prevention eBytes are intended as resources to qualified lawyers who should exercise due care and their professional judgment in adapting or making use of any content.
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