Category: CAT: Succession Planning, ST: Connecticut, ST: Illinois, ST: Indiana, ST: Iowa, ST: Minnesota, ST: Nebraska, ST: Ohio, ST: Pennsylvania, ST: Tennessee, ST: Virginia, ST: Wisconsin (show less)
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This CLE webcast will provide lawyers with strategies and ethical advice to navigate several crucial phases in a legal career: starting a law practice, merging firms, taking on new associates, acquiring a firm, and retirement. This program is for legal professionals seeking expert guidance on managing these transformative milestones successfully and making informed decisions to safeguard their law practice and their clients’ interests. The expert panel will address:
- Ethical considerations when hiring new counsel and staff.
- Practical steps and ethical requirements for start-up lawyers.
- Conflicts of interests involving firm mergers, and new hires.
- Understanding what’s permissible when buying or selling a law practice.
- Common questions from attorneys contemplating retirement, of-counsel, or part-time private practice.
- Your professional liability insurance questions.
The following ethics rules will be presented and discussed in this CLE webcast:
- ABA Model Rule 1.2 Scope of Representation and Allocation of Authority Between Client and Lawyer
- ABA Model Rule 1.4 Communications
- ABA Model Rule 1.8 Conflicts of Interest: Current Clients
- ABA Model Rule 1.10 Imputation of Conflicts of Interest: General Rule
- ABA Model Rule 1.15 Safekeeping Property
- ABA Model Rule 1.17 Sale of a Law Practice