If you can't find the guidance you need using the resources here, we’d be pleased to discuss your questions and practice issues. Common topics include improving workflow and business processes, starting a law practice, marketing and client development, law office technology, fees and billing, selecting malpractice insurance, and maintaining trustworthy trust accounts.
To arrange a telephone session or in-person meeting with
Reid Trautz, AILA's practice advisor, please call 202-507-7647 or send an email to
rtrautz@aila.org. The service is free to all AILA members. Note: We do our best, but on some days it may take up to 24 hours to return your call.
If you have missed one of AILA's Teleconferences on ethics or would like a recap of the session, then you will be happy to hear that recordings of previous AILA Teleconferences are available for purchase at Convention Seminar Cassettes.
Ethics
Dedication to ethical conduct and adherence to our ethics rules are fundamental to our professionalism. AILA offers valuable ethics publications and resources, specific to immigration practice, as well as links to ethics rules and opinions of U.S. jurisdictions, to help guide you when faced with difficult questions.
- Ethics Articles & Publications
Featuring a variety of resources that provide guidance on many of the most difficult dilemmas facing immigration practitioners. - State Ethics Rules and Opinions
Link to the American Bar Association’s webpage containing ethics rules and opinions, broken down state-by-state. AILA Doc. No. 05060727. - UPL/MJP Rules by State
Compiled for the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility, this list is helpful to any lawyer considering a move to another jurisdiction.