Description
Total Credits: 4.0 Ethics
Since the new Rules of Professional Conduct replaced the former Code of Professional Responsibility in 2009, the State Bar’s Committee on Professional Ethics has issued over 320 formal opinions. Many of these address new ways of promoting and providing legal services, and the ethical problems arising from those innovations.
This program will examine recent opinions and address changes in forms of practice, business development, fees and other kinds of compensation, and lawyer advertising, as well as questions about competence, confidentiality and conflicts of interest, and ethics issues that arise in litigation.
You will hear about these changes directly from members of the Committee, as well as leading lawyers, ethicists and disciplinary counsel. Whether or not you agree with what is happening, you owe it to yourself and your colleagues to stay current on the rapidly evolving rules of conduct.
Program Speakers:
Cristine Cioffi, Esq. | Cioffi Slezak Wildgrube P.C.
Michael Creaser, Esq. | Attorney Grievance Committee, Third Judical Department
Steve Krantz, Esq. | Committee on Professional Ethics
Anne Reynolds Copps, Esq. | Copps DiPaola, PLLC
Michael Whiteman, Esq. | Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP
Materials
| 1. The Per Diem Lawyer (25.7 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 2. Educational Programs for Non-Lawyers (28.3 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 3. Advertising, Marketing and the Prohibited (30.7 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 4. Securing a Fee (26.2 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 5. Fee Sharing (25.1 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 6. Attorney Trust Accounts (25.9 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 7. Partners, Investors, Offices and Phones (29.1 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 8. Competition (25.4 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 9. A Rose by Any Other (25.8 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 10. Blogging for Dollars (25.8 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 11. Contacts and Contracts (26.3 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 12. The Competent Lawyer (9.2 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 13. Personal Conflicts - Discrimination (11 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 14. Issue Conflicts (8.6 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 15. Personal Conflicts - Financial Interests (8.5 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 16. Conflicts in Representing Multiple Clients (8.1 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 17. Waddya Know and Waddya Say (114.6 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 18. Blind Copying the Client (8 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 19. The Misbeggoten Email (10.8 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 20. Disclosing Confidences to Collect a Legal Fee (8.4 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 21. Obligation of Confidentiality to a Prospective Client (8.5 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 22. Confidential Information and the Self-Defense Exception (8.1 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 23. Nobody Likes a Snitch (8.7 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 24. Who's Got the Whistle and What to Do With It (8.2 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 25. The Irascible Irrepressible Client (9 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 26. Making Things Right (8.4 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 27. The Zealous Prosecutor (8.1 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 28. Use of Social Media (8.7 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 29. Communicating with Represented Persons - Just Making Small Talk (8 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| A. Business Development (7.2 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| B. Fees and Other Compensation (7.1 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| C. Attorney Trust Accounts (7.1 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| D. Forms of Practice (7.2 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| E. Advertising and Solicitation (7.2 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| F. Conflicting Interests (7.5 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| G. Confidentiality (7.7 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| H. Disclosures of Client Misconduct (7.3 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| I. Disclosure in Self Defense (7.3 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| J. Litigation and Other Recent Issues (7.5 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||