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Paralegals and legal assistants are an integral part of most attorneys’ practices, performing an increasingly-wider range of tasks, from drafting documents to conducting legal research. Although paralegals have their own set of conduct guidelines, their supervising attorney bears a significant duty to supervise, train, and ensure that their staff also indirectly complies with the Model Rules of Professional Conduct (MRPC). 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 and could face serious disciplinary action. In this one-hour program, legal ethics expert Tom Spahn will explore the scope of supervisory duties an attorney is bound by, what kind of work can be assigned to a paralegal, and how the MRPC guide both.

Generative AI (GenAI) is the form of artificial intelligence that can generate data – from audio and video to text to 3D objects. GenAI – and its first public model, ChatGPT – is being hailed as a technological breakthrough and a means for artificial intelligence to communicate, research, and create original works. GenAI is also seen as a “new” way for lawyers to draft documents, conduct legal research and perform document review.

In the last few years, the Department of Labor (DOL) has been actively pursuing its regulatory agenda regarding fiduciary matters arising under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). Join us for just one hour to get the latest on the DOL’s regulatory priorities and self-correction initiatives. You’ll hear directly from a panel that includes a senior representative of the DOL's Employee Benefits Security Administration as well as two private practitioners with extensive experience advising clients on ERISA and fiduciary matters.

There are inherent risks involved in any commercial leasing arrangement between a landlord and tenant. Some are obvious and routinely accounted for in the protective provisions that landlords rely on offset exposure to financial loss, especially in the case of a risky tenant. But there are other risks that are less obvious, but equally as treacherous and potentially costly, that need to be addressed during the negotiation and drafting of the protective provisions. Failure to fully consider these common and lesser-known risks can result in the interruption or discontinuation of rental payment from a tenant.

Domestic asset protection trusts (DAPTs) are often an estate planner’s best vehicle for keeping a trust’s assets out of the reach of creditors. The domestic asset protection trust is often referred to as a "self-settled trust" because the settlor is one of the beneficiaries. Self-settled trusts give the trustee discretion over whether to make distributions to the settlor, while simultaneously protecting the assets from the settlor's creditors. But in addition to providing asset protection, DAPTs also offer a number of other less appreciated benefits that can help advance other important estate planning practices and goals.

Drafting a legal opinion requires specialized due diligence and legal research, often while under a tight time constraint as the clock ticks and the pressure builds to get the deal finalized. Careful consideration must be given that the information detailed in the legal opinion letter is not only in accordance with the sometimes vague rules of customary practice, but also does not render an opinion that will mislead the recipient.

Your fee agreements and engagement letters are designed to establish a “meeting of the minds” between the lawyer and client -- on both the scope of the work to be performed and the ground rules each party will follow. And since you had contract law as a 1L, you must know how to draft a simple client representation agreement, right? Wrong! This one-hour program explores the top ten commonly made mistakes on fee agreements and engagement letters, and provides clear instructions on how to fix them. It will also review the clauses that should be in every fee agreement versus those that are used more selectively. If you want to improve your client-lawyer relationships and protect your firm from future fee disputes, this program is not to be missed

The purpose of a brief is very simple: convince the court that your client deserves to win. However, many brief writers lose sight of this goal by creating briefs that are badly written, poorly organized, and ineffectively themed. All too often, briefs become overly long documents filled with extraneous information, and the writers seem to forget that the intended audience is time-pressed judges (and their clerks) looking for the clear delivery of a well-reasoned argument.

Register for this course, an examination of formation, business operation, and dispute resolution considerations you must be aware of so that you can make your next business divorce a smooth one! A business divorce can be clean, or it can be derailed by emotional baggage, rancor, and mistrust. Much like its matrimonial cousin, if a business divorce requires litigation, that litigation is very costly, often intensely contested, and may leave the business far less valuable. Regardless of how complex a business relationship is, parties and their counsel will be served better with the more sophisticated drafting, litigation, and mediation strategies you’ll learn during this comprehensive program.