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Maintaining Ethical Standards: Essential Strategies for Protecting Your Legal License (On-Demand)

Ethics Credits:
Original Date Of Course:

$199.00

Course Description

This course provides a comprehensive overview of ethical standards critical to protecting your legal license. It covers key topics such as ethical rules, disciplinary proceedings, professionalism, and the lawyer’s oath. Participants will learn best practices for safekeeping property, managing trust accounts, handling client and third-party disputes, and maintaining candor and truthfulness. The course also addresses sensitive issues like compensation of lay witnesses and attempts to influence witnesses, equipping attorneys with essential strategies to uphold integrity and avoid professional misconduct.

Syllabus

  1. Ethical Rules and Disciplinary Proceedings
  2. Lawyer’s Oath / Professionalism
  3. Safekeeping Property
  4. Trust Accounts
  5. Deposits and Advances
  6. Disputes with Client
  7. Disputes with Third Parties
  8. Candor and Truthfulness
  9. Compensation of Lay Witnesses
  10. Attempts to Influence Witnesses

Credit Details

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Course Instructor

Stephen J. Herman, Esq.
Original Date Of Course

Ethics Credits

2
Stephen J. Herman, Esq.
Stephen J. Herman, Esq.
Stephen J. Herman, Esq. is a past president of the Louisiana Association for Justice and the New Orleans Bar Association, a fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, and a member of the American Law Institute. He teaches advanced seminars on class actions and complex litigation at Loyola and Tulane law schools, has authored America and the Law: Challenges for the 21st Century, and served as Court-appointed Lead Counsel for Plaintiffs in the BP Oil Spill / Deepwater Horizon Litigation.
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