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The last few years have disrupted lawyers’ professional and personal lives. Attorneys may feel like their lives seem out of control, yet they are not alone in feeling the effects of a pandemic, economic downturn, or political divisiveness. Clients are affected too. Attorneys must manage their own emotions while simultaneously being sensitive and responsive to their clients. This program will identify normal feelings, reactions, and behaviors, and recognize when they are cause for concern. For some clients, reactions may rise to the level of impairment. Impairment comes in many forms, including substance use, addiction, or other mental impairments. It is not a lawyer’s job to diagnose, yet a lawyer must act accordingly.
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A high percentage of malpractice practice claims and practice management problems are caused by communication breakdowns. Communication problems create dissatisfied clients, decrease productivity, and cause conflict internally and externally. The growing number of communication channels only compounds the problem. We'll explain technologies and techniques that will help you improve communication, lower your stress, improve your service, generate happier clients, and lower your malpractice risk.
Being a jerk is easy. It’s especially easy if our opponents are jerks first. It’s also a pretty lousy way to practice law. Being advocates doesn't mean lawyers need to be rude, sneaky, obstructionist or condescending – no matter how tempting or satisfying it may feel in the moment. Ethics rules call on us to make meritorious claims, expedite cases, and act with candor and fairness toward courts, parties and opposing lawyers. In this session, we’ll discuss how lawyers best serve their clients, the judicial system, and our profession by following both the letter and the spirit of those rules.
Susan Humiston, Director of the Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility, reviews recent attorney discipline cases and shares lessons from recent cases. Director Humiston will examine the professional conduct rules that were violated and give practical advice to avoid the conduct that caused actual discipline for Minnesota attorneys. She will also discuss the recent review of the discipline system conducted by the ABA and the status of the court’s consideration of recommendations made by the ABA.
Join Karin Ciano of the Minnesota Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility as she navigates through the complexities of ethical challenges in probate, drawing insights from recent cases to provide valuable lessons for legal professionals. Explore the ethical landscape of probate practice and gain practical knowledge to enhance your professional conduct in this dynamic and informative session.
Older adults are especially vulnerable to violent crime, neglect, and exploitation, including financial fraud. Elder abuse is often difficult to detect, as the perpetrator may be a caretaker, family member, or other individual on whom the victim must rely for basic needs. Accordingly, victims may be reluctant to report a crime. This presentation will focus on financial exploitation and provide you with an overview of this crime, its prosecution and the role of the Attorney General’s Office
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This program will discuss how the Minnesota Rules of Professional Conduct interact with a lawyer’s use of social media. An overview of the rules that impact conduct will include Competence, Confidentiality of Information, Conflict of Interests–Current Clients, Trial Publicity (Extrajudicial Statements), Truthful Statements, Communication with Represented Parties, Impartiality and Decorum of Tribunal, Judges and Legal Officials among others.
The 13th edition of Minnesota Legal Ethics has been posted. It’s free, online, word-searchable and hot-linked. It’s supplemented with blogs between its annual updates. Learn from the author how this 1,500 page treatise can help you research and answer ethics questions. Bill Wernz was the OLPR Director and was Dorsey & Whitney ethics partner for 20 years.
This will be an interactive session providing an overview of the requirements, protections, and limitations of the various privileges (such as attorney/client and accountant/client); “Kovel” engagements; and settlement discussions and documentation. We will also cover various state and ABA ethics and professional rules of conduct relating to these matters.
Lawyers practicing in-house or for the government face particular challenges – you’re seen as a confidant, an advisor, and a business partner. The easy and daily access to the legal department also increases the ability to develop friendships with the people in your organization.
The ABA has recommended to the Minnesota Supreme Court momentous changes in the Minnesota lawyer discipline system. Join three premier local legal ethics attorneys in describing and evaluating these recommendations. The Court has requested comments by year end. Our experts will evaluate the ABA recommendations and offer their own views on needed changes.