Ethics

Legal ethics is defined as the code of professional responsibility detailing the moral and professional duties required in the delivery of legal services.

Ethically Investigate Insider Threats, Social Media, and Privacy

This on-demand webinar explores ethical concerns that organizations will potentially need to address regarding an employee's privacy when dealing with insider threat and social media monitoring.

Topics include: A review of insider threat and an employee privacy case review, key components of insider threat programs including social media monitoring, and how to address employee privacy concerns.

Working From Home - Confidentiality Best Practices

Without proper preparation, legal professionals of any level can be at fault for mishandling confidential information. Don’t let this happen to you! This on-demand webinar will not only help you avoid commonly made mistakes, but dives into the importance of professionalism when working remotely with confidential information.

Legal professionals must be flexible and readily available to assist with reviewing practices, procedures, and policies to verify that they provide sufficient protection.

Your Duty to be Technologically Competent

This on-demand webinar explores the ethical obligations, and pitfalls, that surround the ABA’s Model Rule for Professional Conduct 1.1 with particular attention to comment 8. “To maintain the requisite knowledge and skill, a lawyer should keep abreast of changes in the law and its practice, including the benefits and risks associated with relevant technology, engage in continuing study and education and comply with all continuing legal education requirements to which the lawyer is subject.”

Social Media Ethics

This on-demand webinar will provide an overview of growing societal trends of social media, along with a discussion of private versus public information, and how social media blurs the lines. Consider the risks associated with social networking and if your clients are in danger. What makes social networking different: A look at some publicly poor decisions made through social media and what it could cost you. We will review the American Bar Association and State Rules of Professional Conduct, as well as other formal ethical opinions. What to consider in your discovery plan?

2020 CP Review Course Bundle

Need help in preparing to take the CP Certification Exam? By purchasing the CP Review Course Bundle you will have access to 9 CP review courses:

2020 Conference Recording Bundle

CLE Hours: 33.75 total (Substantive 26.75; Non-substantive 4.5; Ethics 2.5)
(If you earned CLE for a session via the virtutal Conference @ Home, you are ineligible to earn CLE for the recorded version of that session)

This bundle includes the following on-demand webinars:

Jurisprudence and how Judges Rule on Cases

This on-demand webinar focuses on how courts sometimes use ethics in their rulings more than following the rule of law. This course discusses how courts have become a critical part of the public policymaking process and whether they should be exercising discretion to make decisions which have far-reaching consequences in terms of the distribution of benefits and burdens within society? Furthermore, this course discusses Supreme Court Justices’ jurisprudence and what guides them in ruling the way they do. We review some landmark Supreme Court cases and how Supreme Court Justices were guided

CP Review - Ethics (2020)

This on-demand webinar assists those preparing for the Certified Paralegal Exam review for the Ethics portion of the exam.

The session focuses on the following:

Ethical responsibilities centering on performance of delegated work
Paralegal professional responsibility
Professional relationships
Client and public contract
Attorney code of ethics and discipline

Common Ethical and Legal Pitfalls in Estate Planning

In the field of Estate Planning, we, as professionals, must be weary of common ethical and legal pitfalls. In this webinar, we will review, among other things, the standards of competent representation, maintaining confidence while admitting to not knowing the answer, disclosure of conflict of interests, ensuring legal capacity, and creating an engagement letter.

Wednesday, June 17, 2020 - 11:45am

Everyday Ethics for Paralegals

The study of legal ethics can be dry and less than exciting. In real life, paralegals use ethics rules to guide them in everyday interactions with attorneys, opposing counsel, the court, and the public. In this on-demand webinar, participants are the audience of a legal professional talk show. The host of the show will answer letters sent by viewers regarding ethical dilemmas paralegals face in their daily work. The topics covered include confidentiality, conflict of interest, giving legal advice, inadvertent disclosure, reporting misconduct, fees, and client property.

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