“PAPADAKIS & ALLMAN" which was active in Austin, TX from 1995 through 2001. Their legal relationship was dissolved and ended in 2001. Both attorneys remain members of AIRLAWS located at WWW.Airlaws.com.
Advertising for Lawyers by Lawyers
[This Web site is not intended
to advertise services directly to the public.
Services offered by
this web site are directed to attorneys and other law firms.]
DISCLAIMERS:
AIRLAWS is not a Law Firm. AIRLAWS is a
consulting group made up of lawyer members with a focus on aviation.
AIRLAWS members are attorneys who may be contacted directly.
AIRLAWS is a network of attorneys who focus on some varying aspects
of the aeronautical endeavor.
Attorneys who are members of
AIRLAWS have no dues, agreements or other fee arrangements, nor do they
have expense sharing arrangements.
The lawyers named as
members of AIRLAWS have assumed no joint professional responsibility for
any clients’ legal affairs. To the contrary individual members of
AIRLAWS may be contacted and contracted for directly.
Whenever
an AIRLAWS attorney member is hired or contracted for by other law firms
or attorney, then individual consulting contracts are made solely
between the employing law firm and the associated AIRLAW’S member in
strict conformance with applicable State Bar Rules.
AIRLAW’S member attorneys do offer some services with a focus on the
aeronautical endeavor. State Bar of Texas does not have Aviation Law as
a certification specialty. A focus is specifically not a claim of a
specialty.
The AIRLAW advertising is directed exclusively to
other attorneys competent in their own right to evaluate and handle
legal matters. AIRLAWS members offer consulting and associate counsel
help to such qualified lawyers.
AIRLAWS members do not
advertise in this web site communication that the lawyer is a specialist
except when permitted under Texas Rule 7.04 or other Bar rules apply.
AIRLAWS member do focus a portion of their practice on specific
facets of the aeronautical endeavor. AIRLAW’S members competency in the
aeronautical arena should be evaluated and measured by special
education, training, or experience in the particular area of endeavor.
The advertising by AIRLAWS is aimed at other law firms and lawyers fully
capable of evaluating an AIRLAWS members capabilities.
Certification by the Texas or other State Board of Legal Specialization
involves special education, training, and experience, Aviation law is
not a recognized area of certification by the Texas Board of Legal
Specialization. Some other State’s Boards do recognize aviation law as a
specialty.
Lawyers who advertise in this web site have some
focus on specialized facets of the aeronautical endeavor. Our
advertisement is to other attorneys and Law firms seeking help in some
facet of aviation related areas.
A website for a network of
lawyers which is not a law firm is not considered a communication
initiated by a law firm and since it is targeted at other attorneys is
exempt of TEXAS rule 7.07.
Our Web site advertisement does
discloses the willingness or potential willingness of individual
AIRLAW’S members to on occasion be employed to render services on
a contingent fee basis, when such occurs and a member enters into such
an agreement the hiring attorney or lead lawyer or law firm complies
with rules for associating a counsel. This includes the lead
attorney complying with and agreeing with client concerning the addition
of an AIRLAWS member to the clients case.
The AIRLAWS Web site
is not a Law firm. It is a network of attorneys. The cost of the website
and its content is controlled by owner Atty: Myron Papadakis, TX SBOT
This web site of consulting attorneys continues the traditional
and long established tradition of Texas Paragraph (a)(3) that permits
advertisements by lawyers to other lawyers in legal directories and
legal newspapers …whether written or electronic.
The AIRLAWS web
site complies and contains information about the name, location,
telephone numbers, and general availability of a lawyer to work on
specific aeronautical endeavors for other attorneys and law firms.
Special care has been taken to ensure that each member of
AIRLAWS is not paying for the cost of maintaining the web site. Each
attorney has a resume posted showing experience and professional
qualifications of each.
This web site is designed and directed
to qualified practicing attorneys and not directly to clients. Lawyers
and Law firms who may wish to consult or otherwise employ an AIRLAW’S
member are attuned to checking the work histories and experience levels
of other attorneys through State Bar disciplinary and ethics committees
as well as membership in professional groups attained through merit.
20. Should you as Lead attorney or your law firm hire an AIRLAWS
member on a contingent arrangement be sure that such arrangement
complies with Forum State Bar Rules that normally include:
a. That
such association is in writing.
b. That such addition is agreed to
and signed by hiring attorney.
c. That such addition is agreed to and
signed by ultimate client.
d. That such addition is agreed to
and signed by associated attorney.
e. That work expected of newly
associated attorney is delineated briefly in writing.
f. That the
percentage of legal fee assigned to newly associated attorney is in
writing.
g. That it is understood and agreed that the associated
attorneys fee is paid from attorneys percentage of legal fee and
addition of said attorney does not diminish client’s percentage
expectation as to recovery..
h. If addition of an associate attorney
will increase costs of litigation – client must be so advised and must
agree.
Copies of such agreement for additional associated counsel
will be provided to ultimate client, and associated counsel.
DISCLAIMER: As AIRLAWS is a network of independent lawyers, AIRLAWS is
not in any way form or shape responsible in any fashion for the legal
work performed by a member.
Note if you chose to employ and
utilize a Member of AIRLAWS in an official appearance in any case in
which the associated attorney is not a member of that State Bar, it is
the hiring attorney or lead attorney’s duty to introduce and to comply
with state regulations or Federal Regulations concerning Pro HAC
requirements