{"id":5231,"date":"2007-06-21T16:15:07","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T23:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/news\/?p=30"},"modified":"2007-06-21T16:15:07","modified_gmt":"2007-06-21T23:15:07","slug":"ethical-issues-legal-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/2007\/06\/21\/ethical-issues-legal-assistant\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethical Issues for the Legal Assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard A. Cohn<br \/>\nPartner, Aitken * Aitken * Cohn<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Attorney &#8211; Client Privilege<\/li>\n<li>Initial Contact with clients commences the attorney-client relationship<\/li>\n<li>Communication with clients &#8211; the essentials<\/li>\n<li>Prohibition against the &#8220;practice of law&#8221; by non-attorneys<\/li>\n<li>Fee splitting with non-attorneys &#8211; prohibited.<\/li>\n<li>Client Privacy Issues<\/li>\n<li>Private Health Information of Clients<\/li>\n<li>Conflicts of Interest Among Clients\n<ul>\n<li>Multiple Plaintiffs<\/li>\n<li>Spouses<\/li>\n<li>Minors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Communication with opposing side\u2019s witnesses and experts<\/li>\n<li>Attorney Work Product Privilege<\/li>\n<li>Statutes of Limitation and other deadlines<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>3 Imperial Promenade, Suite 800<br \/>\nSanta Ana, California 92707<br \/>\n714-434-1424<br \/>\n714-434-3600 Fax<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:rich@aitkenlaw.com\">rich@aitkenlaw.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard A. Cohn Partner, Aitken * Aitken * Cohn Attorney &#8211; Client Privilege Initial Contact with clients commences the attorney-client relationship Communication with clients &#8211; the essentials Prohibition against the &#8220;practice of law&#8221; by non-attorneys Fee splitting with non-attorneys &#8211; prohibited. Client Privacy Issues Private Health Information of Clients Conflicts of Interest Among Clients&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/2007\/06\/21\/ethical-issues-legal-assistant\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,338],"class_list":["post-5231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-aitken","tag-ethics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}