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Plain Advice For all Lawyers: Florida State Bar
The 20 Golden Rules or How Not To Be A Difficult Attorney
- Behave yourself
- Answer the phone
- Return your phone calls
- Pay your bills
- Keep your hands off your clients’ money
- Tell the truth
- Admit ignorance
- Be honorable
- Defend the honor of your fellow attorneys
- Be gracious and thoughtful
- Value the time of your fellow attorneys
- Give straight answers
- Avoid the need to go to court
- Think first
- Define your goals: Remember you are first a professional, then a businessman. If you seek riches become a businessman and hire an attorney.
- Remember – there is no such thing as billing 3,000 hours a year
- Tell your clients how to behave – if they can’t, they don’t deserve you as their attorney
- Solve problems – don’t become one
- Have ideals you believe in
- Don’t do anything that you wouldn’t be proud to tell your mother about!