Ethics

Two recent articles deal with issues of working with co-counsel and other service providers. Doug Richmond wrote Professional Responsibilities of Co-Counsel: Joint Venturers or Scorpions in a Bottle?, 98 Ken. L. J. 461 (2009-2010).  Unfortunately, I can?t find a link, but I presume you can find it on Lexis or Westlaw.

Molly Crane, a student at Georgetown, wrote Let?s Be Reasonable About It: Defining the Reasonable Inquiry in an Age of Disaggregation for the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, on the level of due diligence that should be expected in discovery in a era of disaggregated legal representations.  (Disclaimer, I?m on the Board of Advisors for the GJLE and helped her with the paper.) Download Crane

Finally, as I think I?ve previously discussed here, Mitt Regan and Palmer Heenan wrote a significant piece, Supply Chains and Porous Boundaries: The Disaggregation of Legal Services, and I wrote a risk management piece on the issue for Beazley's newsletter on the issue as well.