title: One day, you are going to need an attorney.
abstract: All of us, at some point in our professional careers, will require the services of an attorney. The doctor-patient relationship is a good corollary for the relationship you should have with your attorney. Your attorney should be a trusted professional who knows his or her limitations and has a stable of specialists to refer you to if the issue is beyond his or her area of expertise. Like a patient who finds a dentist he can trust and forms a long-term relationship with, we, as dentists, should find an attorney with whom we can have a similar lifetime professional association.
authors.affiliation: New York University, USA.
authors.forename: Eric J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Ploumis
mesh_terms: D032982:Contracts; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D033241:Lawyers; D007879:Legislation, Dental; D011215:Practice Management, Dental