{"id":4474,"date":"2003-06-03T16:37:39","date_gmt":"2003-06-03T20:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2003\/06\/03\/eyeballs-needed-ears-too\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T15:00:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T19:00:56","slug":"eyeballs-needed-ears-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2003\/06\/03\/eyeballs-needed-ears-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyeballs Needed &#8212; ears, too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a22'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\">No, I don&#8217;t merely mean I need visitors to this new blawg.&nbsp; I need to hear from <EM>you<\/EM> about legal ethics reform efforts across the country, because I don&#8217;t have access to Members-only sections of bar association websites, or&nbsp;their journals and newsletters,&nbsp;nor to meetings behind closed doors, where proposals are&nbsp;made, amended,&nbsp;rejected or accepted.&nbsp; I&#8217;d also like to hear about reform programs sponsored by consumer action groups.&nbsp; So, please place your tips and news items into the <EM>ethicalEsq? <\/EM>&#8220;Suggestions&#8221; Box. &nbsp;<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P>I&#8217;m especially interested in <STRONG>efforts to<\/STRONG> <STRONG>better-inform clients of their rights and options<\/STRONG>.&nbsp; Such as:<\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI><br \/>\n<DIV style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Arial,Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">Rules requiring Mandatory&nbsp;Disclosure of <STRONG>Malpractice&nbsp;Coverage<\/STRONG> below a particular threshhold. <EM>E.g<\/EM>., New Hampshire&#8217;s Rule 1.7 (less than $100,000), which is described and archived in the Feb. &#8217;03 edition of <A href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsandlawyering.com\/Issues\/files\/nhrule117.pdf\">Ethics and Lawyering Today<\/A>.&nbsp;<STRONG>&nbsp;<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<LI><br \/>\n<DIV style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\"><FONT face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Requirements or Programs to inform <STRONG>divorcing<\/STRONG> or separated couples about the existence of divorce mediation and of classes for &#8220;parenting-apart.&#8221;<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<LI><br \/>\n<DIV style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\"><FONT face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Information relating to Client&#8217;s Rights&nbsp;when entering into <STRONG>contingency fees<\/STRONG>, such as <A href=\"http:\/\/www.halt.org\/bor\/flbor.html\">Florida&#8217;s mandated Statement<\/A> of Rights.<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<LI><br \/>\n<DIV style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\"><FONT face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Client<STRONG> Bills of Rights<\/STRONG>, such as those passed in <A href=\"New York \">New York<\/A> (which I think is a little too vague), and <A href=\"http:\/\/www.halt.org\/bor\/ilbor.html\">Illinois<\/A> (matrimonial matters), and advocated&nbsp;by the legal reform group&nbsp;<A href=\"http:\/\/www.halt.org\/bor\/borhome.php\">HALT<\/A> in its Legal Consumers Bill of Rights Project. <\/FONT><\/DIV><\/LI><\/UL><br \/>\n<P style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\"><FONT face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Other topics of interest&nbsp;to <EM>ethicalEsq?<\/EM> are described on our &#8220;About&#8221; page, and new topics are also welcome.&nbsp; We need your eyes and ears.&nbsp; Thanks.<\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I don&#8217;t merely mean I need visitors to this new blawg.&nbsp; I need to hear from you about legal ethics reform efforts across the country, because I don&#8217;t have access to Members-only sections of bar association websites, or&nbsp;their journals and newsletters,&nbsp;nor to meetings behind closed doors, where proposals are&nbsp;made, amended,&nbsp;rejected or accepted.&nbsp; I&#8217;d also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1aa","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14284,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474\/revisions\/14284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}