Many law firms, faced with clients who want to reduce their legal spend, utilize contract attorneys to provide legal services at a reduced rate. As previously discussed, there are risks associated with hiring contract attorneys that implicate issues like the duty to supervise, the exclusivity of contract attorneys, overtime, and documentation of the employment arrangement. Those risks materialize in various ways, from ethical challenges and undetected conflicts of interest to wage and overtime claims.
In addition to the risks already identified, there are myriad other issues that arise out of law firms’ use of contract attorneys. This article discusses those other risks that law firms should consider when using contract attorneys.
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