Flash Drive Containing .mp3 Audio File and .pdf Course Book File
NOTE: This course is the first 3.3 hours of our longer program entitled A Potpourri Of Useful Legal Ethics Suggestions: 4.3-Hour Edition (Course #460). You will earn CLE credit by completing EITHER that course or this program. However, most states will not grant you credit for taking both courses.
In this May 29, 2015 3.3-hour (200-minute) program, Patrick M. Connors, a Professor of Law at Albany Law School, where he teaches, inter alia, Legal Ethics, provides useful suggestions on how to handle commonly encountered ethics issues in everyday law practice. Major topics include: Advising a criminal defendant on whether to accept a plea agreement Outsourcing legal and support services and billing practices Lawyer’s responsibility for another lawyer’s theft of clients funds Lawyer’s responsibility for a nonlawyer’s theft of clients funds Virtual law office Does use of sign language interpreter waive attorney-client privilege? Business transactions with client Duties to prospective clients FORMS FOR LAWYERS: For fully-editable immediately downloadable forms in many practice areas, please go to www.NLFforms.com.