Billing for Change: Progressive Practices for the New Business of Law

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Megan Zavieh, Esq. Zavieh Law

Thursday, October 10, 2019

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OCTOBER 10, 2019

B I L L I N G F O R C H A N G E :P R O G R E S S I V E P R A C T I C E S

F O R T H E N E W B U S I N E S S O FL A W

PRESENTED BY:

Zavieh LawMegan Zavieh

Ethics & State Bar Defense Attorney

M E G A N Z A V I E HMegan Zavieh focuses exclusively on attorney ethics, representing attorneys

facing State Bar disciplinary action and providing tools for lawyers to defend

themselves through ethics investigations and prosecutions. She also provides

resources to practicing lawyers to structure their firms to minimize their ethics

exposure. She podcasts about legal ethics on Lawyers Gone Ethical and writes

about ethics at Lawyerist.com and AttorneyatWork.com.

Before devoting her practice to attorney ethics, she practiced securities and civil

litigation for several top New York firms after clerking for the Honorable Evan J.

Wallach at the US Court of International Trade. Megan earned her JD from Boalt

Hall of the University of California, graduating Order of the Coif. She is admitted

to the state courts and several Federal district courts of California, New York, New

Jersey and Georgia, as well as the United States Supreme Court.

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