Retainer agreements are often used by attorneys to establish a formal relationship with clients. However, retainers can be used in almost any industry and are particularly useful to consultants and ...

Question: Every year, the board automatically renews the association attorney’s retainer agreement and deposit. Without reading it the directors sign and send him a check for $60,000. This year, I ...

We often settle legal malpractice claims before they result in a publicly filed lawsuit. Many of our clients, who are lawyers, want to avoid a public lawsuit, but once a suit is filed, they want to be ...

Should lawyers go into great detail in explaining an arbitration provision in a retainer agreement to clients in order for it to be enforceable? In Delaney v. Dickey, a unanimous New Jersey Supreme ...

When our Supreme Court recently visited the propriety of a provision in an attorney's retainer agreement that binds client and attorney to arbitrate any dispute arising out of the attorney's ...