In this two-hour part seminar Jane Long with What Your Office Support Staff and You Need to Know About Your Professional Responsibility for Non-lawyer Assistants and Disengagement: Return of Client Property & Files.
What Your Office Support Staff and You Need to Know About Your Professional Responsibility for Non-lawyer Assistants
Kentucky Supreme Court Rules provided extensive guidance on a lawyer’s professional responsibility for managing paralegals and other non-lawyer staff working in a law office. This program examines these rules with emphasis on lawyer supervision and staff training. Special consideration is given to risk managing lawyer liability for non-lawyer misconduct, conflicts of interest, and negligence.
Disengagement: Return of Client Property & Files: Revised KRPC 1.16 makes it clear that a lawyer cannot make return of a client’s file contingent upon payment of his/her fees. Still, there is a lot of confusion about this amongst some lawyers. For example, it is permissible to withhold uncompensated work product from a client’s returned file in some circumstances.
Speaker: Jane Broadwater Long, Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company of Kentucky
Cancellation Policy: All cancellations must be received by the LBA 24 hours in advance to receive a credit or refund. Substitutes will be allowed.
