Attorney-Client Relationship

Nathan Crystal, Dealing with Unhappy Clients, Part 1, South Carolina Lawyer 16 (May
2025).

Nathan Crystal, Prospective Client Consultations – The Firm Disqualification Dilemma
Resulting from ABA Formal Opinion 510, South Carolina Lawyer 14 (May 2024).

Nathan Crystal, The ABA Sets Tough (and Perhaps Unsound) Standards for Advance
Payment of Legal Fees, South Carolina Lawyer 17 (September 2023).

Nathan Crystal, Counseling or Assisting Criminal or Fraudulent Client Conduct –The ABA Fails to Go Far Enough — But Also Too Far, South Carolina Lawyer 17 (July 2020)

Francesca Giannoni-Crystal & Nathan M. Crystal, Choice of Law in Lawyers’ Engagement Agreements, 121 Penn St. L. Rev. 683 (2017)[PDF]

Ethics Watch: Assignment of Legal Malpractice Claims— When, if Ever? South Carolina Lawyer 12 (September 15) [PDF]

Ethics Watch: Malpractice Insurance Applications and Renewals— Don’t Just Say “No”, South Carolina Lawyer 13 (July 2015) [PDF] 

Ethics Watch: Defending Against Internet Criticism: “Silence is Golden”, South Carolina Lawyer 12 (January 2015) [PDF]

Do the Right Thing (for your duty of competency): Some Ethical and Practical Thoughts on “Notarization” in International Transactions, together with Francesca Giannoni-Crystal, Global Jurist. Volume 12, Issue 2, Pages –, ISSN (Online) 1934-2640, DOI: 10.1515/1934-2640.1412, December 2012, available at http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/gj.2012.12.issue-2/1934-2640.1412/1934-2640.1412.xml

The Duty of Competency in International Transactions Part Two, South Carolina Lawyer 8 (November, 2012) [PDF]

The Duty of Competency in International Transactions Part One, South Carolina Lawyer 10 (September, 2012) [PDF]

Flat Fees: What Are They and What to Do with Them?, South Carolina Lawyer 8 (July 2011). [PDF] 

Limited Engagement Agreements; an Important Tool for Limiting Liability and Dealing with Conflicts, South Carolina Lawyer 10 (May 2011).  [PDF]