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Legal Ethics 2024-2025: Who Is Your Client?

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56 minutes
Spiro Verras
With Spiro J. Verras from Verras Law, P.A.
Recorded November 18, 2024
Product ID 99427

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Overview

Discover Tips and Tricks for Determining Who Your Client Is

What are your ethical duties to former clients? Do you know how to prevent conflicts when representing multiple clients in one case? How do your ethical obligations to a corporation differ from those to individuals within the organization? This legal ethics course is tailored to answer these questions and provide you with best practices for identifying your client in legal practice. Build your knowledge - register today!

  • Uncover practical guidance for determining who your client is in corporate settings.
  • Explore common ethical traps associated with multiple representation.
  • Demonstrate best practices for documenting client representation.

Abbreviated Agenda

  1. Understanding the Reasonable Expectations Test
  2. Current vs. Former Clients and the “Hot Potato” Rule
  3. Tips for Identifying the Client in Corporate Settings
  4. Multiple Representation: Tips and Traps
  5. Best Practices for Identifying Your Client in Litigation (Including Mass Torts, Multi-District Litigation, etc.)
  6. Documenting Client Representation: Why It Matters and Best Practices

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Credit Details

Credits Available
Credit Status Total
Alaska CLE Approved 1 Total
Alabama CLE Approved 1 Total
Arkansas CLE Approved 1 Total
Arizona CLE Approved 1 Total
California CLE Approved 1 Total
Colorado CLE Approved 1 Total
Connecticut CLE Approved 1 Total
Delaware CLE Approved 1 Total
Florida CLE Approved 1 Total
Georgia CLE Approved 1 Total
Hawaii CLE Approved 1 Total
Idaho CLE Approved 1 Total
Illinois CLE Approved 1 Total
Kansas CLE Upon Request 1 Total
Maine CLE Approved 1 Total
Minnesota CLE Approved 1 Total
Missouri CLE Approved 1.2 Total
Northern Mariana Islands CLE Approved 1 Total
Montana CLE Approved 1 Total
North Dakota CLE Upon Request 1 Total
Nebraska CLE Approved 1 Total
New Hampshire CLE Approved 1 Total
New Mexico CLE Approved 1 Total
Nevada CLE Approved 1 Total
New York CLE Approved 1 Total
Ohio CLE Approved 1 Total
Oklahoma CLE Approved 1 Total
Oregon CLE Upon Request 1 Total
Pennsylvania CLE Approved 1 Total
Rhode Island CLE Upon Request 1 Total
South Carolina CLE Approved 1 Total
Tennessee CLE Approved 1 Total
Utah CLE Approved 1 Total
Vermont CLE Approved 1 Total
Washington CLE Approved 1 Total
Wisconsin CLE Approved 1 Total
West Virginia CLE Approved 1.2 Total
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  1. Legal Ethics 2024-2025: Who Is Your Client?

    1. Understanding the Reasonable Expectations Test
    2. Current vs. Former Clients and the “Hot Potato” Rule
    3. Tips for Identifying the Client in Corporate Settings
    4. Multiple Representation: Tips and Traps
    5. Best Practices for Identifying Your Client in Litigation (Including Mass Torts, Multi-District Litigation, etc.)
    6. Documenting Client Representation: Why It Matters and Best Practices

Who Should Attend

This program is designed for attorneys. Paralegals may also benefit.

Speakers

Spiro J Verras
Spiro J.
Verras
Verras Law, P.A.
Speaker bio
Spiro J Verras

Spiro J. Verras

Verras Law, P.A.
Spiro Verras

is the founding attorney and president of Verras Law, P.A., which maintains locations in Palm Harbor, St. Petersburg and Tampa. His current practice focuses on estate planning, probate and trusts, elder law, guardianships, corporate and commercial transactions. Mr. Verras is active in bar organizations, including the Clearwater Bar Association and the Hillsborough County Bar Association. He is also a member of the Real Property Probate and Trust Law, and Elder Law sections of The Florida Bar; Trusts, Estate, Probate and Immovable Property Law Section of the Louisiana State Bar Association; and Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law and LGBT Law sections of the State Bar of Texas. In addition to his state bar memberships, he has been admitted to practice in local and federal district courts, U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Verras is also a member of the Academy of Florida Elder Law Attorneys and the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. He earned his B.A. degree from Yale University and his J.D. degree from Tulane Law School.

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