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Legal Ethics: An Overview Of The Model Rules – 3.3-Hour Version
Legal Ethics: An Overview Of The Model Rules – 3.3-Hour Version

 

DVDs and Course Book

In this 3.3-hour October 22, 2012 program, Christopher J. Robinette, Professor of Law at Widener Law School in Harrisburg, PA, gives a comprehensive and practical explanation of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct.

Major topics include:

üIntroduction

üArticle 1: Client-Lawyer Relationship

• competence: scope of representation, diligence, communication, fees, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, duties to former clients, imputation of conflicts, organization as client , client with diminished capacity, safekeeping property, declining or terminating representation, duties to prospective client, more

üArticle 2: Counselor

üArticle 3: Advocate

• meritorious claims, candor toward the tribunal, fairness to opposing party counsel, trial publicity, special responsibilities of a prosecutor, more

üArticle 4: Transactions With Persons Other Than Clients

• truthfulness in statements to others, dealing with unrepresented person, respect for rights of third persons, more

üArticle 5: Law Firms And Associations

• responsibilities of partners, managers and supervisory lawyers, subordinate lawyers, nonlawyers, professional independence of a lawyer, multijurisdictional practice, more

üArticle 6: Voluntary Pro Bono Publico Service

üArticle 7: Information About Legal Services

• communications concerning a lawyer’s services, solicitation of clients, firm names and letterheads, more

This course is contained (in full) in our longer program entitled Legal Ethics: An Overview Of The Model Rules – 4.25-Hour Version. You may complete EITHER course to earn CLE credit, but may NOT earn credit for both.

FORMS: For fully-editable downloadable forms in many practice areas, please go to www.NLFforms.com

BOOKS FOR LAWYERS: Over 40 useful books on important legal issues facing attorneys are now available for immediate download at www.NLFforms.com. (Reading books without also listening to or viewing a recorded seminar earns NO CLE credits.)

 
Price: $169.00