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Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow? While it may work for you in your home life, this approach to legal practice is a recipe for law society complaints and having to make calls to your malpractice insurer. In The Dark Side of Procrastination, Mark Bassingthwaite (posted on ALPS411 blog) lists many of the rationalizatons commonly relied upon by procrastinators and names these as what they really are – mere excuses. In doing so, he points to the lawyer's professional obligation to act diligently and with promptness in serving clients. The ABA Code provision referred to is similar to that in Chapter 2.02 of the Federation of Canadian Law Societies’ Model Code of Professional Conduct, which requires a lawyer to: “…provide courteous, thorough and prompt service to clients” and goes on to note that “The quality of service required of a lawyer is service that is competent, timely, conscientious, diligent, efficient and civil.” 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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