Texas Legal Malpractice & Lawyer Discipline

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.

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Texas Legal Malpractice & Lawyer Discipline is a practical and easy-to-use book that walks attorneys through issues in modern lawyering including major developments over the past year, with explanatory commentary and practice tips.

The twenty-third edition contains the current law and rules governing lawyer liability and discipline in Texas, providing a road map through Texas codes, rules, and cases. This volume is essential whether you are ensuring your law firm's actions comport with applicable laws and rules, figuring out how to file a grievance against another lawyer, or deciding how to analyze a conflict-of-interest issue. The book's logical format features helpful charts, tables, and cross-references, along with two tables of contents, the full text of the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct, Texas Rules of Disciplinary Procedure, Texas Lawyer's Creed, the State Bar's Pro Bono Policy, and an in-depth index.

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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 C. The Texas Lawyer’s Creed
Appendix D. Supreme Court of Texas Board of Disciplinary Appeals
Appendix E. State Bar of Texas Pro Bono Policy
Table of Cases
Index