Conflicts of Interest: Fundamental Precepts

Speaker:

Richard E. Flamm, Esq.

Program Description:

An MCLE credit DVD and CD presentation.

It has been said that lawyers have a duty to scrupulously avoid representing conflicting interests. In fact, in some jurisdictions lawyers are duty-bound to avoid placing themselves in a position where they may even appear to be doing so. But the ethical rules do not explain exactly what is meant by a conflict of interest. As Justice Marshall pointed out, the term is one that is "often used and seldom defined." This course discusses what the courts, commentators and drafters of the nation's ethical codes term conflict of interest and the host of very different types of circumstances that term describes.

Course Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Conflicts Between Current Clients
3. Direct Adversity Conflicts
4. Genesis of the Direct Adversity Rule
5. Closed File Conflicts
6. Conflicts Between Lawyer and Client
7. Lawyers Acting in Dual Roles
8. Parallel Representation
9. Conflict Detection and Avoidance

CD or DVD. $49.
Catalog no. 151

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