PRACTICE
Legal Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Overview
Pierson Ferdinand’s Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility Team brings decades of experience in advising lawyers and law firms on a global scale concerning all aspects of the legal regulations governing the legal profession.
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Full Spectrum of Business Transactions
Like traditional large law firms, we regularly assist clients in the full spectrum of business transactions and related company matters, a large portion of which involves mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, banking and credit, employment, regulatory, corporate governance and board advisory, intellectual property, and financial restructuring and reorganization, among others.
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Leveraging Technology
Our Corporate team leverages cutting edge technology in all aspects of practice and our diverse all-partner teams focus on what matters most to our clients and stakeholders, delivering outcomes through shared values of strength, diversity, and collaboration.
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Forging Close Partnerships
We believe in forging close partnerships with our clients to better understand their business operations, enabling us to provide more effective counsel and to deliver exceptional value during pivotal moments that often shape profoundly the trajectory and success of our clients’ businesses.
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Effective Low-Leverage Platform
Our unique low-leverage platform is not only more cost-effective, it allows us to focus on fewer, targeted engagements than our peers at traditional, elite law firms. This model allows us to get closer to our clients and to know their businesses, preferences, and cadence, and to ultimately meet our clients where they are.
Capabilities
We offer guidance and support encompassing every facet of the Rules of Professional Conduct in various states and similar professional regulations worldwide. Our services extend to addressing the full spectrum of practice and business-related challenges encountered by law firms, including law firm formation, non-lawyer ownership of law firms, conflicts of interest, bar admission, professional discipline, law practice risk management, and the role of law firm general counsel. Additionally, our team defense lawyers in professional malpractice and related claims, as well as serving as expert witnesses in cases involving disqualification and malpractice.
Lawyers themselves sometimes require legal guidance, and our team is well-equipped to assist with all aspects of representing law firms and lawyers. Our approach is marked by efficiency and directness, allowing our law firm and lawyer clients to not only resolve their immediate concerns but also proactively prevent similar issues from arising in the future.