Jeff Cunningham, Esq.

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🍎 Outside General Counsel for Law Firms 🍎 Ethics, Legal Malpractice & Beyond | Partner at Goldberg Segalla | Citadel Grad

As outside General Counsel for law firms, I help you manage your firm’s risk, protected by the attorney-client privilege.

You’ll enjoy the same protection big law firms use, at a fractional rate.

For over a decade, I’ve defended lawyers sued for legal malpractice or facing ethics issues and have seen the real cost of our professional risks.

We'll address your problems BEFORE there's a disaster.

This pre-loss approach is based on simple risk management, education and response planning.

In addition to traditional hourly work, you can choose to:

→ study a daily dose of legal ethics aimed at law firm risk management
→ join a flat fee monthly membership
→ update your partnership agreement and establish a succession plan
→ employ custom retainer agreements and systems to audit and update them
→ develop robust conflict screening procedures
→ deploy insurance, vendor and staff risk management plans
→ create and update risk, ethics and cyber response plans/teams
→ utilize on demand General Counsel services

Tap into experience:

→ 900+ retainer agreements reviewed/improved
→ 200+ legal mal claims defended
→ 200+ CLE presentations on risk management, legal mal and ethics
→ 250+ MGC attorneys in almost every industry and practice area

We'll reduce your risk, claims insurance premiums, and stress.

Free consultations - flat fee and subscription pricing available.

If you want to learn more, join me on the path to becoming a better and safer lawyer.

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Email: Jeffrey.cunningham@mgclaw.com

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I am an attorney admitted in NY and CT. I am member of The Citadel's Class of 2004, Charlie Company.

* prior results do not guarantee a future or similar outcome

** no attorney-client relationship is formed and this material does not constitute and should not be considered legal advice

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My eyes weren't good enough to capture the extensive client report drafted during our 3 hour flight... but my iPhone's eyes were.

Rule 1.6 Confidentiality (and the related but oft-conflated evidentiary attorney-client privilege) doesn't care about the odds of the person sitting behind you on the plane actually being involved in your client's matter.

Rule 1.6 doesn’t just prohibit intentional disclosure.

The Rule requires “reasonable efforts” to prevent inadvertent or unauthorized access to confidential information. Airplanes are an ethics minefield because they combine close quarters, unpredictable visibility, unsecured networks, and a complete lack of control over who can overhear or oversee your work. 

Lawyers drafting an email, reviewing a brief, or taking a client call at 35,000 feet may unintentionally expose confidential information to seatmates, flight attendants, or anyone walking down the aisle. Even something as simple as an open laptop screen angled toward the row behind you is an unauthorized disclosure. Using the in-flight Wi-Fi also poses cyber-risk; many airline networks are public, unencrypted, and shared by hundreds of passengers, making Rule 1.6(c)’s “reasonable efforts” requirement an active obligation.

Use privacy screens (like $20 on Amazon), avoid client names or sensitive content, draft offline, use a secure VPN, disable Bluetooth and AirDrop, and save substantive client calls or sensitive work for after landing. 

Rule 1.6 is not suspended at cruising altitude; in many ways, the risk is heightened. Working on a plane is sometimes unavoidable, but lawyers should treat it as the public workspace it is, where confidentiality can only be preserved through conscious, affirmative safeguards.

Most importantly, develop a written policy BEFORE your people work in transit.

Let's chat about better practice, less stress.

* don't worry - if you zoom in, that's a random page from Robert Heinlein's masterpiece, "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" covering the actual attorney-client communication

Jeff Cunningham

Outside General Counsel for Law Firms | Ethics Advice, Legal Malpractice Defense & Holistic Law Firm Risk Management | I cram legal ethics into memes and movies

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