Stop Applying Big-Firm Ethics to Your Small Practice

Thandi lost a whole Saturday to independence rules about network firms. She does not have a network. She never will. Half the Code of Ethics was never written for her one-person practice, and nobody had told her which half. The five principles are the same for everyone, sole proprietor or Big Four partner. The reading is not. Here is which parts of the Code a one-person practice must apply, and which parts you can put down today.