This interactive program used hypotheticals to explore situations in which lawyers’ interests might conflict with their client’s interests, including the applicability of ethics rules to lawyers’ non-legal activities; doing business with clients; accepting gifts from clients; representing unpopular clients; lawyers’ agreements to limit their practice in partnership agreements or in litigation settlements; limiting liability to clients; disclosing malpractice to clients; resolving disputes with clients; file ownership after representations end; duty to protect former clients.
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