Review the model rules concerning attorney fees

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Question :

1. In your opinion, is it necessary to have rules of professional conduct that cover "Fees and Client Funds"?
Explain. Use examples in your explanation.

2. Review the Model Rules concerning attorney fees and apply them to the following fact pattern.

Your attorney supervisor is retained by a new client to prepare an estate plan. The attorney charges a flat fee of $1,500.00 to prepare a simple will or living trust, together with a power of attorney and health care directive. The attorney requires a $500.00 up front, which he promptly places in the general office account. The balance due is on completion. The attorney does not provide an engagement letter, preferring to conduct business the old fashioned way - by agreement and a handshake.

What ethical problems do you foresee? Explain in detail.

3. Choose any three (3) of the websites I posted in the Unit or in my Lecture and explain IN DETAIL (a brief sentence in not acceptable) what you learned from visiting each of them.

Topic: Fees and Client Funds

Reading from our Textbook: Chapter 7
Lecture

"How do you get paid?": Q & A "Lightning Round":

When you go to the Doctor's Office, what is the first thing they ask you?

How are you feeling?No. The receptionist asks you for "your Insurance".

Can lawyers ask you for "your Insurance"

Attachment:- Fees and Client Funds.rar

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