Audio CDs and Course Book
NOTE: This course contains the first 3.3 hours of our shorter program entitled A Potpourri Of Useful Legal Ethics Suggestions: 3.3-Hour Edition (Course #459). It also contains, in full, our 1-hour course Common Ethics Issues When Dealing With Clients (Course #461). You will earn CLE credit by completing this course. However, most states will not grant you credit for also taking the 3.3-Hour Edition of this course or the 1-hour course, Common Ethics Issues When Dealing With Client.
In this May 29, 2015 4.3-hour (260-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 Obligations to joint clients Service of papers Suing a current client for unpaid fees Withdrawing from representation Confidentiality and withdrawal FORMS FOR LAWYERS: For fully-editable immediately downloadable forms in many practice areas, please go to www.NLFforms.com.