Ethics & Professional Responsibility Counseling

The best time to consult an ethics attorney is before a disciplinary complaint is filed. Ellen Brotman provides confidential, practical ethics counseling to individual attorneys and law firms navigating complex professional responsibility questions — helping clients make informed decisions that protect their licenses and their practices.

Ellen Brotman brings national-level expertise to every matter she handles. Her counsel is practical, discreet, and grounded in decades of experience at the intersection of ethics and practice.

• Written ethics opinions for individual attorneys and law firms
• Conflicts of interest analysis and waivers
• Ethics opinions for expert testimony in legal malpractice matters
• In-house counsel representation and corporate ethics issues
• Law firm compliance programs and risk management
• Technology and AI ethics issues for attorneys
• Ethics in criminal defense practice
• Lateral transition and attorney departure issues
• Fee agreement review and compliance
• Supervision obligations and law firm management issues