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Location: 2nd floor Auditorium Course ID: C090612 Number of Sessions: 1 Credits: 2 MCLE Credits
2 MCLE Credits: 2 Ethics; Transitional and Non-transitional (also NJ) Course Description:
Lawyers are faced with strict ethical standards that they must comply with in all their professional dealings. To ease their burden, many times they turn to legal professionals, and more and more are implementing technological solutions to help.
This program will explore the ethical requirements for attorneys and paralegals, and look at the consequences of non-compliance. The panel will discuss such hot button issues as compliance, diligence, fees, confidentiality, privilege and attorney supervision, as well as demonstrate technological advances that directly assist in meeting attorneys' professional obligations to their clients, peers, tribunals and others.
Agenda
- Lawyers' Responsibility for Conduct of Non-Lawyers according to Rule 5.3
- Legal Staff's Responsibility to Uphold Ethics
- Ethical Issues for Lawyers and Legal Staff including Billing, Client Confidentiality and Technology Considerations (ethical screens, conflict-checking, etc.)
- Legal Technology Trends - Leveraging New and Useful Tools to Meet Ethics Obligations
Faculty:
Program Co-sponsor: NYCLA's Ethics Institute
Moderator: Christy Burke, Burke & Company LLC
Faculty: Oliver Gierke, Litigation Case Manager, White & Case LLP; Kenneth Moltner, Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C.;Vicki Voisin, ACP, past president of the National Association of Legal Assistants (NALA) Click Here to download order form.
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