#LegalEthics Tidbit: Can I charge my client for responding to my client’s disciplinary complaint?
Please don’t. A VA lawyer responded to the VA bar after a client filed an ethics complaint against him. The lawyer sent his client a $1,890 bill for this time, then filed suit against the client for the unpaid bill. The VA Bar ethics hotline told him this was not OK, but apparently could not cite a specific case in VA. Well, now they can. Public reprimand.
