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Ethics of Attorney-Client Transactions: How to Avoid Tripping the Wires


Level: Advanced
Runtime: 67 minutes
Recorded Date: March 16, 2024
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Agenda

  • Attorney-client transactions often seem unlikely to the lawyer (think: massive joint venture real estate deal with a client where the lawyer Is not really a lawyer anymore), but in fact they are all too common.
  • Many arrangements attorneys and clients make in fact trigger the ethical rules governing the propriety of transactions.
  • Common scenarios: Renegotiation of fee arrangement when client is behind where lawyer gets a stake in case or other security to continue litigating or a lien on case proceeds to pay the fees.

For NY - Difficulty Level: Experienced attorneys only (non-transitional)

Description

How well do you know that rules that govern transactions with your clients? This course gives a comprehensive overview of issues relating to common scenarios in attorney-client transactions, including all of the factors to consider vividly illustrated through the use of real-world examples. The tripwires are serious with massive consequences, and very easy to trip over, so it's a very practical and useful presentation to make sure you stay within the boundaries.

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Peter Afrasiabi

Founding Partner
One LLP

Peter Afrasiabi is a founding partner at One, LLP, and focuses his practice on copyright, patent, trademark and entertainment litigation. In addition, Peter is a professor and the Director of the Appellate Clinic at University of California, Irvine School of Law.

Peter graduated from University of California, Los Angeles and University of Southern California Gould School of Law.

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