{"id":4565,"date":"2003-08-28T13:00:22","date_gmt":"2003-08-28T17:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2003\/08\/28\/putting-it-in-writing-tlc-not"},"modified":"2011-08-05T15:00:43","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T19:00:43","slug":"putting-it-in-writing-tlc-not-cya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2003\/08\/28\/putting-it-in-writing-tlc-not-cya\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting It in Writing: TLC not CYA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a230'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">The <A href=\"http:\/\/strattonblawg.typepad.com\/insurancedefenseblog\/\">Insurance Defense Blog<\/A> lists &#8220;Five Musts to put in Writing to a Client&#8221; (from Maryland Bar Journal Sept\/Oct 2003, by Bar Counsel Melvin Hirshman, the text of which is not available online).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<EM>EthicalEsq? <\/EM>Reminder:&nbsp; The documents can&#8217;t just be CYA&#8217;S, but must be TLC&#8217;S &#8212; Thorough Lawyering for the Client&#8217;s Sake&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp; [See our <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2003\/07\/14#a109\">posting<\/A> from July 14 on improving fee and&nbsp;retainer agreements.] <\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Insurance Defense Blog lists &#8220;Five Musts to put in Writing to a Client&#8221; (from Maryland Bar Journal Sept\/Oct 2003, by Bar Counsel Melvin Hirshman, the text of which is not available online).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;EthicalEsq? Reminder:&nbsp; The documents can&#8217;t just be CYA&#8217;S, but must be TLC&#8217;S &#8212; Thorough Lawyering for the Client&#8217;s Sake&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp; [See our posting from [&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-4565","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-1bD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565","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=4565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14161,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565\/revisions\/14161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}