Money worries, he says, can get many small and solo practitioners into trouble with the bar. In California and many other states, banks are required to notify the bar if those accounts have insufficient funds. People who are good with verbal skills and weak in math. There are plenty of resources where they can learn practice management skills and many practice tools. Law schools have failed unquestionably in this area.
People get out of school with no idea how to run a practice.
Davis disagrees that prosecutors target attorneys in small firms. I know a lot of disciplinary counsel. They triage cases like it was an emergency room. Jerome Fishkin has seen the issue from two sides. After nine years as a prosecutor with the State Bar of California, he turned to defending lawyers who face complaints.