11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (MT)
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1.0 CLE Credit of which 1.0 is Ethics
Sponsored by the Idaho Law Foundation, Inc. in partnership with Peach New Media and WebCredenza, Inc.
Negotiating, drafting and reviewing contracts are processes fraught with ethical issues. Negotiations sometimes require zealous advocacy, taking maximal positions versus the counter-party or, at other times, require delicacy and balance. Each circumstance raises the issue of honesty - when does boastfulness about certain facts or mere silence cross the line from proper zealous advocacy to improper deception? Reviewing and drafting complex contracts is a similar ethical minefield. If you discover that the draft of a contract contains materially incorrect assumptions about the law but which will benefit your client, do you have the duty to disclose or correct the error? In the same way, if the contract contains faulty assumptions about material facts, must you disclose those faulty assumptions? And how do these rules apply when drafting a contract? This program will provide you with a real world guide to the ethics of negotiating, drafting and reviewing contracts.
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