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Billing for Change: Progressive Practices for the New Business of Law
Sponsored by the Omaha Bar Association
Young Lawyers Division
Megan Zavieh, Esq. Zavieh Law
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Embassy Suites Hotel – La Vista Conference Center
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OCTOBER 10, 2019
B I L L I N G F O R C H A N G E :P R O G R E S S I V E P R A C T I C E S
F O R T H E N E W B U S I N E S S O FL A W
PRESENTED BY:
Zavieh LawMegan Zavieh
Ethics & State Bar Defense Attorney
M E G A N Z A V I E HMegan Zavieh focuses exclusively on attorney ethics, representing attorneys
facing State Bar disciplinary action and providing tools for lawyers to defend
themselves through ethics investigations and prosecutions. She also provides
resources to practicing lawyers to structure their firms to minimize their ethics
exposure. She podcasts about legal ethics on Lawyers Gone Ethical and writes
about ethics at Lawyerist.com and AttorneyatWork.com.
Before devoting her practice to attorney ethics, she practiced securities and civil
litigation for several top New York firms after clerking for the Honorable Evan J.
Wallach at the US Court of International Trade. Megan earned her JD from Boalt
Hall of the University of California, graduating Order of the Coif. She is admitted
to the state courts and several Federal district courts of California, New York, New
Jersey and Georgia, as well as the United States Supreme Court.
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