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WARNING: Avoid the Client Attorney Assistance Program (CAAP)

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What is CAAP?

This is a confidential voluntary mediation process for fee disputes between you and your client which is provided and encouraged by the State Bar.  Even though the CAAP program coordinator includes in all of her communications to you and to the client that the entire process is a confidential form of mediation, beware.

Breach of Confidentiality

If the Office of the Chief Disciplinary Counsel (the people who go after you for grievance complaints) obtains your communications to your client (which they may get from your client if you don’t settle or if you say something that is self- incriminating), the Chief Disciplinary Counsel will try to breach the veil of confidentiality and use them against you in the grievance process.  In other words, the communications solicited by CAAP and the dispute resolution process are NOT confidential as alleged by the CAAP program coordinator.

Recommendation to Avoid CAAP

Unfortunately, for this reason, we recommend that you avoid the entire CAAP mediated settlement process altogether. This is contrary to the State Bar’s desire. Do not communicate with CAAP by emails, letters, or voice messages.  If you have to communicate for whatever reason, make absolutely certain that the communications are not self-incriminating (which is almost impossible to make certain).  Because, if your communications are self-incriminating, the Office of the Chief Disciplinary Counsel may try to use them against you in a grievance proceeding, even though the communications are supposed to be “confidential” and not subject to publication because they were made in the process of settlement through mediation.

The Lesson

The lesson to learn; CAAP could be a trap.

The Collie Firm can help with your case

We appreciate and empathize with every aspect of the grievance defense process. Your reputation and livelihood are at stake. We have a track record for championing fellow attorneys who have diligently worked on a matter with a client only to find themselves on the receiving end of a professional ethics misconduct allegation.

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The Collie Firm, PLLC
Griffin W. Collie
3030 McKinney Avenue, Suite 104
Dallas,Texas75204
214-484-4323
griffin.collie@thecolliefirm.com
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