{"id":6205,"date":"2026-09-24T10:10:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T10:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livenation254.com\/?p=6205"},"modified":"2026-09-24T10:10:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T10:10:22","slug":"the-brief-that-can-end-your-legal-practice-before-it-even-starts-ekaterina-handa-warns-young-advocates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livenation254.com\/?p=6205","title":{"rendered":"THE BRIEF THAT CAN END YOUR LEGAL PRACTICE BEFORE IT EVEN STARTS \u2014 EKATERINA HANDA WARNS YOUNG ADVOCATES"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>THE BRIEF THAT CAN END YOUR LEGAL PRACTICE BEFORE IT EVEN STARTS \u2014 EKATERINA HANDA WARNS YOUNG ADVOCATES<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/livenation254.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/WA_1790244563155.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6207\" src=\"https:\/\/livenation254.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/WA_1790244563155-252x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/livenation254.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/WA_1790244563155-252x300.jpeg 252w, https:\/\/livenation254.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/WA_1790244563155.jpeg 738w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this week\u2019s edition of <em>Advocate\u2019s Voice<\/em>, Ekaterina Handa, Partner at Gitonga, Kinyanjui &amp; Co. Advocates, offers a candid warning to young advocates and anyone building a legal practice: not every brief that comes through the door should be accepted.<\/p>\n<p>Under the theme <strong>\u201cThe Brief That Can End Your Practice Before It Starts,\u201d<\/strong> Handa examines the professional risks that lawyers may encounter when deciding which clients and instructions to take on.<\/p>\n<p>She highlights issues including serial movers, professional red flags, conflicts of interest, questionable instructions, the handling of client money, and the importance of proper retainers, documentation and professional boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>According to Handa, building a sustainable legal practice is not simply about pursuing every business opportunity. It also requires the judgment to identify instructions that could expose an advocate to professional, financial or reputational risks.<\/p>\n<p>Her central message is that <strong>saying no to the wrong brief is not necessarily turning away business\u2014it can be a way of protecting the practice, reputation and future a lawyer is working to build.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Handa invites advocates, particularly those at the early stages of their careers, to read, share and contribute their own experiences and perspectives on navigating difficult client instructions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cProtect your name. Protect your practice. Protect your future.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Ekaterina Handa<\/em><br \/>\nPartner, Gitonga, Kinyanjui &amp; Co. Advocates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE BRIEF THAT CAN END YOUR LEGAL PRACTICE BEFORE IT EVEN STARTS \u2014 EKATERINA HANDA WARNS YOUNG ADVOCATES In this week\u2019s edition of Advocate\u2019s Voice,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livenation254.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livenation254.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livenation254.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livenation254.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livenation254.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/livenation254.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6208,"href":"https:\/\/livenation254.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6205\/revisions\/6208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livenation254.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livenation254.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livenation254.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livenation254.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}