Amy G. McClurg · Amber Bevacqua-Lynott · Joseph A. Corsmeier
A lawyer takes a thirty-minute consultation, declines it, and never sends a bill. Months later, opposing counsel moves to disqualify her firm, because the would-be client shared enough confidential detail to attach prospective-client duties and nobody screened for it. A conversation that earned nothing collapses a live case. Intake has become the riskiest stage of…