LIVE EVENT Ethics in Drafting Claims
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (MT)
**Live Audio Stream Only
1.0 Ethics credit
Sponsored by the Idaho Law Foundation, Inc. in partnership with Abila and WebCredenza, Inc.
This program will cover the following topics:
- Duty to investigate client facts before filing a claim v. duty to investigate the law
- Conflicting approaches of ethics rules and the courts to sanctioning ghostwriting in litigation
- Understanding when you are required to be candid and when you are allowed to be silent, or engage in “puffery”
- Ethics tension between duty of loyalty to client and duties as officer of the court
- Ethics of serving unenforceable subpoenas in the hope of obtaining witness cooperation
- Ethics in settlements – silence about facts, the law, mistakes in settlement documents, and the death of witnesses
- Enforceability of settlement agreements and ethics challenges
Date Presented:
March 29, 2019 11:00 AM Mountain
Length:
1 hour
Registration Fee:
$55.00
Total MCLE Credits: 1.00
Including Ethics: 1.00