Alvin Mathews is a member of the Bricker & Eckler litigation group with a Civil Litigation and Administrative Practice. Mr. Mathews spends a great deal of time providing preventive consultation and advisory opinions to Ohio lawyers, including solo practitioners, law firms, in-house counsel and governmental lawyers on Legal Ethics Issues, defense of lawyer discipline complaints and on various litigation matters. He also provides expert witness opinions on lawyer professional conduct issues in litigation. Mr. Mathews represents businesses and individual licensees in litigation before administrative agencies, state professional licensing boards and courts.

Areas of Practice Include:

• Conflict of Interest Analyses
• Ex-Parte Contact with Current or Former Employees
• Client-Lawyer Confidentiality Issues
• False Testimony
• Document Preservation / Destruction Issues
• Sarbanes-Oxley Issues of Legal Compliance
• Responsibilities when Lawyers Change Firms
• Terminated Representation
• Multi-Jurisdictional Practice Issues
• File Maintenance / Destruction Issues
• Fee / Engagement Disputes
• Malicious Prosecution / Abuse of Process
• Unauthorized Practice of Law Representation

Mike Caryl is a Trial Lawyer with over 34 years of experience. He has tried more than 400 civil and criminal cases and arbitrations. Mr. Caryl's specialty is representing and counseling lawyers, law firms and clients in the area of Attorney Fee Disputes.

Mr. Caryl has served in civil trial work including: Personal Injury, Commercial and Construction Litigation, Collection Work and Insurance Litigation. He also assists lawyers and firms with the legal implications of lawyers leaving their firm, legal malpractice and attorney discipline issues and frequently serves as an expert witness in courts and arbitrations.

Mr. Caryl frequently speaks and writes on fees and ethical issues and has served on the Board of Governors of the Washington State Trial Lawyer’s Association. He has taught Litigation for Paralegals at City University in Seattle, and has been an “AV” rated lawyer for over 25 years with the Martindale Hubbell law list.

San Diego attorney James E. King is regularly called upon to serve as an expert witness in trials in California, and has provided those services, as well as fee arbitration, in five counties. He has qualified and testified, even over opposition in the following areas:

Phillip Feldman B.S., M.B.A., J.D., A.V. (310) LEG MALP (534-6257)

• Former Judge Pro Tem
• Arbitrating Fee Disputes 31 years
• 41 years legal malpractice litigation & transactions
• 29 years testifying as a legal malpractice expert
• Any transaction or litigation matter, plaintiff or defense, any state or federal court or arbitration
• Standard of Care, Rules of Professional Conduct, DR's EC's ethics, conflicts, competent lawyering, lawyer duties), Causation, informed consent, fiduciary duties, reasonableness of fees etc

Professor Leonard Gross has been a member of the School of Law Faculty at Southern Illinois University since 1983, first as an Assistant Professor and later as an Associate Professor before becoming a Professor of Law in 1993. His specialty is legal ethics. He teaches legal ethics at Southern Illinois University and as a visiting professor at Washington University In St. Louis.

He received his J.D., Magna cum laude, from Boston University School of Law in 1976.

Before coming to SIU, Professor Gross clerked for Judge Frederick L. Brown of the Massachusetts Appeals Court from 1976 to 1977 and practiced corporate litigation with the New York City law firm of Shearman & Sterling from 1977 to 1983.

He has testified for the plaintiff and defendant on legal ethics matters, and also consults with attorneys related to ethics.

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