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The First Line
of Defense:
Insurance Needs
for a New Law
Practice
BRADLEY
MILLER
Miller Law LLC ∙
@bradleymiller#InsuranceAgentsRule
1. Professional liability
(malpractice)
insurance
2. Commercial liability
insurance
3. Personal insurance
1. Professional
liability
(malpractice)
insurance
If you do not
have coverage of
at least
$100,000/300,00
0 you must
inform the client.
Cost.
Lower for new attorneys.
Higher deductible = lower
premium.
Payment plans.
Prior acts
coverage.
Covers acts that occurred
prior to the policy, but are
reported during the
policy.
Defense costs.
Outside limits.
or
Inside limits.
Disciplinary
defense.
Coverage for an ethics
claim.
Choice of
defense counsel.
Deductible type.
Standard vs. “first dollar
defense”.
2. Commercial
liability insurance
Business Owner
Policy.
Replacement of firm
property.
Damage to third parties.
Other
coverages/add-
ons.Commercial auto.
Employee dishonesty.
Employment practices.
Sewer/drain backup.
Other
coverages/add-
ons.
Laptop loss.
Cyber insurance/data
breach.
Valuable papers and
records.
3. Personal
insurance
Thank you.
www.bradleymillerlaw.com
www.newmodernlawyer.com

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Editor's Notes

  1. - Have all lawyers in the room stand - give round of applause, be proud! - All smart - chose this session instead of aircraft demos at aviation law session next door - If new attorney, sit down… all new lawyers, introduce yourself to exp. lawyer - One more round of applause - Sit down
  2. - My name is… and I’m a lawyer - Solo in Columbus, former chair of YLS - In practice, exclusively work with small biz - lots of biz formations, Ks, sales, advising - Also help lawyers looking to start up practice, including through CBA - Please ask questions throughout - hashtag if live-tweeting - Have some bad news [pause] *CLICK
  3. - Talk about how properly set up new biz, better job than LZ - 3 steps to set up: advising on *CLICK* biz structure, *CLICK* entity selection, *CLICK* ops and management
  4. - If four equal members, each can have 25% ownership, or 25 membership interests - % traditional p-ship way - way most LLCs are set up - If more like corp, use units - like shares of stock, can be helpful a lot of members, or to buy/sell interest
  5. - If four equal members, each can have 25% ownership, or 25 membership interests - % traditional p-ship way - way most LLCs are set up - If more like corp, use units - like shares of stock, can be helpful a lot of members, or to buy/sell interest
  6. - If four equal members, each can have 25% ownership, or 25 membership interests - % traditional p-ship way - way most LLCs are set up - If more like corp, use units - like shares of stock, can be helpful a lot of members, or to buy/sell interest
  7. - If four equal members, each can have 25% ownership, or 25 membership interests - % traditional p-ship way - way most LLCs are set up - If more like corp, use units - like shares of stock, can be helpful a lot of members, or to buy/sell interest
  8. - If four equal members, each can have 25% ownership, or 25 membership interests - % traditional p-ship way - way most LLCs are set up - If more like corp, use units - like shares of stock, can be helpful a lot of members, or to buy/sell interest
  9. - If four equal members, each can have 25% ownership, or 25 membership interests - % traditional p-ship way - way most LLCs are set up - If more like corp, use units - like shares of stock, can be helpful a lot of members, or to buy/sell interest
  10. - Talk about how properly set up new biz, better job than LZ - 3 steps to set up: advising on *CLICK* biz structure, *CLICK* entity selection, *CLICK* ops and management
  11. - If four equal members, each can have 25% ownership, or 25 membership interests - % traditional p-ship way - way most LLCs are set up - If more like corp, use units - like shares of stock, can be helpful a lot of members, or to buy/sell interest
  12. - Why would you want manager-managed? - *CLICK* big reason is to limit power of who can run biz - some people shouldn’t able to bind comp, let along walk with scissors in their hand - *CLICK* some members want to be passive - not worry about day-to-day ops - *CLICK* can have non-member managers - can bring in outside manager, make sure restrictions in place on power - *CLICK* biz gives equity to EEs, EE has authority to act on behalf of comp - don’t want janitor signing checks - *CLICK* if owners want manager-managed in future, can set all current members as managers - Default member, so need in OA - also put restrictions and replace, rogue manager can’t remove — FOR REST WILL BE GOING QUICKER, STOP IF WANT
  13. - Why would you want manager-managed? - *CLICK* big reason is to limit power of who can run biz - some people shouldn’t able to bind comp, let along walk with scissors in their hand - *CLICK* some members want to be passive - not worry about day-to-day ops - *CLICK* can have non-member managers - can bring in outside manager, make sure restrictions in place on power - *CLICK* biz gives equity to EEs, EE has authority to act on behalf of comp - don’t want janitor signing checks - *CLICK* if owners want manager-managed in future, can set all current members as managers - Default member, so need in OA - also put restrictions and replace, rogue manager can’t remove — FOR REST WILL BE GOING QUICKER, STOP IF WANT
  14. - You assume wrong at some point