On Wednesday, December 30, the DC Bar will offer a program titled Zeal or No Zeal: The Exciting Game of Conflicting Legal Ethics.
The session will be held in the DC Bar Conference Center, 1101 K Street, NW, Washington DC and will begin at 1:30 and end at 4:45 p.m.
The program will be conducted by Jack Marshall of Proethics Ltd. who will discuss the DC Rules of Professional Conduct and today's evolving ethical standards that raise challenging questions about attorney zeal. Attendees will learn how the real rules of professional conduct are a rarity today since they mandate "zealous representation within the law." Participants will learn that polls show most of the public don't like lawyers to be too zealous, unless, or course, those members of the public are the ones being represented.
Explore issues such as duties to firm-switching clients; ethical and unethical uses of delay and deception; conflicts when business ethics, fiduciary ethics and legal ethics clash; five hidden traps in the ethics rules; the use and misuse of confidences and secrets; and lawyer whistle-blowing.
For information visit CLE Events on The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel website at www.metrocorpcounsel.com.
To register, visit www.dcbar.org.