Ethics Defense for Lawyers

When your judgment is questioned, everything is.

What Happens Next Defines Your Reputation

It defines your reputation. It may also redefine your career.

Kelly Flood, Former Bar Counsel

Of Counsel. She worked inside the system that decides these cases. At the State Bar of Arizona, she handled discipline matters from investigation through litigation. She understands how these cases are built, and how they come apart.

The Rules Are The Same. The Risks Are Not.

Civil Litigation

What begins as a dispute over discovery, disclosure, conflicts, or court orders can quickly become a dispute about professional conduct.

Personal Injury

The case may be over, but disputes involving settlement funds, liens, trust accounts, and client communication can create entirely new problems.

Family Law

High-conflict cases often generate fee disputes, communication challenges, protective-order issues, and allegations that place an attorney's professional conduct under scrutiny.

Business Law

Questions involving entity representation, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, and competing interests among owners, officers, and stakeholders can create professional risks long before a dispute reaches the courtroom.

Criminal Defense

Serious criminal cases often create difficult issues involving plea negotiations, client communication, witness contact, conflicts, and professional responsibilities.

Trust Account Issues

Questions involving attorney trust accounts, client funds, recordkeeping, and disbursements often require immediate attention. Trust account issues.

Bar Complaints

A complaint is an allegation. It is not a conclusion. The response can determine the result. Bar complaints.

Your Response Should Be Too

The stakes are professional. Your response should be too.

Don't Let The Assumption Become The Result

Ethics matters often involve disciplinary investigations, trust account issues, conflicts of interest, professional conduct allegations, or questions that place a lawyer's reputation and license at risk. Start your defense.

Koplow Defense. (602) 494-3444. 2501 North 7th Street, Phoenix, Arizona 85006.