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About the Program:
This video replay program will offer helpful, easy to adopt, tips to avoid or resolve legal ethics issues most lawyers encounter in their practice. Topics covered will include:
* Spotting and resolving conflicts of interest
* Handling client funds properly
* Protecting client information from disclosure
* Withdrawing from bad client representations
* Getting paid while obeying the ethics rules
About the Presenter
Michael P. Downey is a legal ethics lawyer and founder of Downey Law Group LLC, a St. Louis law firm devoted to legal ethics, lawyer discipline defense, and the law of lawyering. Michael regularly advises lawyers, law firms and corporate legal departments on legal ethics, risk management, and related issues, and defends lawyers and firms in civil litigation and disciplinary cases. He has also testified as an expert witness in legal ethics, disqualification, and attorney fee issues in Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, and the District of Columbia.
Michael has taught legal ethics and law firm practice at Washington University School of Law since 2003 and professional responsibility at St. Louis University School of Law since 2010. He chaired the ABA Law Practice Division from 2013-14; has presented on professional ethics more than 400 times in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom; and has published the book Introduction to Law Firm Practice (ABA 2010) and more than 120 articles on legal ethics. Michael writes regular ethics columns for the Law Practice, Litigation, the National Law Journal, and the St. Louis Lawyer.
In 2014, Missouri Lawyers Weekly named Michael a “Most Influential Lawyer” as the “go-to legal ethics lawyer in Missouri.” Michael has also been named a “2015 Top 50 Lawyer in St. Louis” by Super Lawyers, and in 2015 was inducted as a Fellow in the College of Law Practice Management.
Learn more about Michael and his practice at www.DowneyLawGroup.com.
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