Lawyer Ethics When Working with Paralegals - Audio Webcast
January 2019
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Lawyer Ethics When Working with Paralegals
Program Description
Paralegals are often essential for lawyers to successfully practice law. Paralegals conduct basic legal research, help review and prepare documents, and sometimes screen clients. Still, they are not lawyers and not directly subject to the ethics rules applicable to lawyers. But the lawyers who supervise their work are responsible for their actions and liable for any improper conduct. Lawyers are responsible for ensuring that their paralegals' work conforms to ethics rules. If a paralegal's actions breach client confidentiality, compromise the attorney-client privilege, or are otherwise improper, the supervising lawyer is ethically responsible for that misconduct. This program will provide you with a practical guide to how ethics rules make supervising lawyers responsible for the actions of their paralegals.
- Ethics rules attributing paralegal activity to supervising lawyers
- Conflicts of interest and the attribution of paralegal knowledge about client matters
- How paralegal research and document preparation may become the unauthorized practice of law
- Instructing paralegals about client confidentiality – and lawyer consequences if it’s breached
- Attorney-client privilege implications when clients communicate with paralegals
- Issues when paralegals participate in discovery
- Fee sharing with paralegals
Faculty: Thomas E. Spahn, McGuireWoods, LLP
Each program will run from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. M.T. (60 minutes each).
Registration Fees
| Non Member | $89.00 |
| CBA Member | $59.00 |
| Elite Pass | $0.00 |
| Tuition Assistance | $0.00 |
- General Credits: 1.00
- Ethics Credits: 1.00
- EDI Credits:
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