How To Maintain A Good Relationship Between The Lawyer And The Client

Relationship With The Client

In the practice of law, The attorney's relationship with the client is always permeating by trust, as the client deposits in the attorney all his fears, anxieties, grudges, achievements, including his assets. We often learn about facts that not even people close to the client know. Therefore, maintaining discretion and secrecy are key factors in this relationship.

Everything Too Much Can Be A Problem

Empathizing the attorney's relationship with the client in empathy is one of the tactics I used and still use a lot. However, it is not as simple as it sounds, as the client was not always created as you were. Therefore, prudence is always very important and must permeate your entire relationship.

Always remember the two magic words: prudence and empathy. 

Communication Is The Keyword

Another equally important factor is transparency and clarity. Remember what I wrote initially: the attorney's relationship with the client is based on trust. 

When you hear your client's story, sometimes some details don't fit the story or even the documents you're analyzing. That's where transparency and clarity come into play.

The Lawyers' Code of Ethics and Discipline determines that, in the relationship between the lawyer and the client, it is a determining factor to inform, clearly and unequivocally, any risks of his claim.

Although the ethical disposition turns to the lawyer to inform the client about the legal risks (succumbing, deadlines, appearing in court) that a judicial demand entails, using empathy, you can think, what if I were in my client's place? Was it clear in my statements? Was I assertive? Did the client understand me?

 

This duty of information fits very well when dealing with trust, informing the lawyer about everything important that happens in his case and believing that it does not "lock-up" the office or overload the service. 

Quite the contrary: it narrows and strengthens the attorney's relationship with the client, making him more relaxed, also being very important (and very effective) a personal marketing tool.

The attorney's relationship with the client must be as transparent as spring water, crystal clear and pure, and any imperfection or shadow must be quickly treated or removed; otherwise, it is a relationship that is bound to fail.

Keep Close, But With Limits

It is also common for us to get closer to our clients over time. We called for lunches, dinners, birthdays, and the whole relationship is building over time.

I have had contact with countless colleagues who draw a clear boundary between them and the clients. Others bring clients into their lives and become great friends. There is everything, and although it is good to say that rules must be imposed, the lawyer himself must define his barriers. 

Watch out for the "little favors." If it is a service, and you should feel you should charge for this service, charge. Therefore, it is good to avoid some invitations from clients, as they can understand as favors or even an exchange: I pay my lawyer a dinner at the corner bakery, and he makes the contract for me. 

That is, the relationship with the client is extremely important. But as I said, in all of our personal or even professional relationships, we must keep clear limits in mind and always analyze the points that we must not overcome.

I have clients who have become great friends, great clients who have become great ex-friends, friends-clients, clients-friends, including a client, once knowing that I would be traveling abroad, he asked me for clothing products.

Although it is a delicate situation, it is possible to detach yourself from it and maintain a good relationship between the lawyer and the client.

How do you define the limits of your relationship with your clients? Please share with us in the comments below! 

 

HOW TO DRAFT A SPECIAL POWER OF ATTORNEY IN A COURT CASE?

Q: Draft a Special Power of Attorney in a court case.?👇

♦️Special Power of Attorney for Court Case♦️

🔸#Executed_On: 1st March 2020 at (City), Pakistan

🔸#By: Umair Shafique S/O Muhammad Shafique Caste Mughal R/O A Block Satellite town,(City).

(hereinafter called the "First Part") 

🔸In_favour_of: Waqas Mushtaq S/O Mushtaq Abbasi Caste Abbasi R/O B Block Satellite town(City).

(hereinafter called the "Second Part")

🔸#Regarding: In the Court of Senior Civil Judge, ___.

       In Re: Umair Shafique Verses Nisar Ahmed

        Case No. 112/2020 (Suit for Declaration)

🔸#Bounded_as: Copy of case mentioned above attached as Annexure "A".

🔸#Witnesses_as_follows:

♦️1. That the first part of said deed is the plaintiff in Suit No.112/2020 pending in the court of Senior Civil Judge ___ do hereby appoint, make and constitute Second part of the deed as a special attorney on my behalf in my name to do the following regarding the civil suit mentioned above.

👉a) To engage or appoint any Advocate, Attorney, Barrister, Vakeel, Pleader, etc. to conduct the said case,

👉b) To sign, verify and file the plaint of the above-mentioned suit,

👉c) To file any application necessary regarding the above mentioned civil suit,

👉d) To state on my behalf

👉e) To produce or summon or represent documentary evidence,

👉f) To compromise on my behalf if circumstances of the case allow doing so,

👉g) To refer the case to arbitration if deemed necessary,

👉h) To deposit and withdraw any money for any proceedings,

👉i) To receive any money due to me under such decree or to certify payment to the court,

👉j) To obtain certified copies of the documents and papers etc.,

👉k) To obtain the certified copy of the final decree of the court.

👉l) To file an application for execution of a decree passed in the said suit and to sign and file such application

               And

👉m) Generally all lawful acts mandatory for the conduct of the said Civil suit.

♦️2) I hereby agree and declare that all the acts, deeds and things done by my said attorney shall be construed as acts, deeds, and things are done by me, and

IN PRESENCE OF WITNESSES, the parties have signed this deed and affixed their thumb impressions on the date mentioned above.

Umair Shafique (Sd)

Executant ( First Part)

N.I.C No _____

Waqas Mushtaq

Ordained Attorney (Second Part)

N.I.C No._____

WITNESSES :

1.________

S/O ______

R/O ______

N.I.C No ______

2._______

S/O ______

R/O ______

N.I.C No ______

What are the 10 Good Cybersecurity Practices for Businesses

Cybersecurity

Before this era of digital addiction we entered, technology was just many companies and professionals who worked in their respective businesses. Currently, it is difficult to find a company that does not only depend on the internet to exist, function, or perform its work.

 

We are all connected all day, and so, we contact customers, store documents, discuss prices and internal policies, relate to coworkers, all using e-mail, chats, groups, social media, cloud, etc.

However, what seems harmless can become a problem if companies don't have rules to protect themselves from cyber threats. What was confidential can cease to be with the snap of the fingers and thus cause serious damage to companies, to their image, to the image of their professionals?

Because of this situation, we will propose 10 good cybersecurity practices for companies so that they can have an idea of ​​what can be done to prevent problems arising from the misuse of technology or even help to protect against cyber threats:

10 Good Cybersecurity Practices for Companies

1. Create an internal information security regulation, where the company defines its employees' rights, duties, and responsibilities. 

The limits of access to company information, the possibility of using that information inside and outside the company, the confidentiality of the information obtained, and the penalties. 

If the rules are disobeyed, as well as the control and monitoring mechanisms of the company's technological apparatus;

2. Create a Privacy Policy aimed at company personnel, indicating the individual's expectation of privacy with the company, as well as how to monitor the user's accesses and communications (employee or not), when he uses the device technological information provided by the company, and even informing about video surveillance, if any, and the limits of it's use by the company, if necessary;

3. Create Terms of Use to define the rules for the use of the company's technological infrastructure, including its internal systems, e-mails, or even accounts for storing documents in the cloud, as well as any electronic equipment provided by the users (employees or not), such as tablets, cell phones, and/or computers.

4. Identify whether there is a need to classify information according to the degree of confidentiality and define who can access what in the company's systems;

5. Identify the best way to store company information and files, creating, if possible, a single standard, and defining clear rules on how to use and keep that information and files, and even their disposal;

6. Define if there are limits and/or prohibition of access to certain internet applications, such as, for example, some social media, or if it is the case of permission, identify any reservations;

7. Create a primer on behavior on social media, indicating what is allowed and what is prohibited, and promote training on business-friendly behavior ;

8. Create rules on the use of passwords to access companies' secure environments, informing about possible monitoring of activities, as well as rules on account cancellation and prohibition of access  to the company's systems and technological apparatus after the termination of the employment relationship;

9. If the company has a Virtual Private Network VPN, which means virtual private network, create specific rules on its use;

10. Warn about the duty to report any information security incident to which they are aware that could unduly expose information about the company, its personnel, or its customers and the leakage of confidential information that could compromise their image.