CLEonline.com is pleased to present a special online CLE ethics seminar for Texas attorneys handling Child Protective Services (CPS) cases. Representation of parents and children in termination of parental rights cases in Texas presents the attorney with a number of significant ethical considerations. This seminar provides an overview of sources and resources for ethical and professional standards for parents' and children's attorneys, a summary of the professional disciplinary rules and obligations by which attorneys in child protection cases are guided and bound, and discusses some frequently implicated rules of professional conduct.
This seminar features an audio presentation by the instructor/moderator for this seminar, Tricia S. Heil, in which she discusses the issues outlined below. This is a streaming audio presentation that you can access on demand at any time during the course of the seminar session. The audio presentation lasts for approximately 2 hours. This seminar is entitled:
Ethical Consideration for Attorneys in Texas Child Protective Services (CPS) Cases
** (available at any time of the day and in time increments convenient to you during the above referenced dates) **
Subjects to be discussed during this CLEonline.com seminar include:
- Ethical Foundations: Where Do I Start? Resources for Ethical Standards, Rules, Guidelines, and Opinions
- The Basics: Know Your Job
- Performance Expectations and Guidelines: Know the Professional Standards for Your Job
- Conduct As Attorneys: Know the Disciplinary Standards for Your Job
- Can You \ Should You Take This Case? Competent and Diligent Representation
- Talk to Your Client: Communication
- Confidentiality of Information
- Conflicts of Interest
- Deal Professionally With Unrepresented Person
- Respect the Rights of Represented Persons and Third Persons
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
- Guardian Ad Litem Dual Role
The instructor/moderator for this CLEonline.com seminar will be:
Ms. Tricia S. Heil of Austin. Ms. Heil is an attorney in private practice where she handles cases in the areas of licensure and discipline, as well as family law litigation and mediation. She served previously as the Assistant Director of the Texas Lawyers Assistance Program and the Professionalism Enhancement Program at the State Bar of Texas. She has written and spoken extensively on the legal and ethical implications of impairments in the legal profession, and her articles have been reprinted nationally and internationally. She served as one of the faculty for the ABA National Workshop on Lawyer Assistance Programs in 1993 and 1995.
Ms. Heil received her law degree from St. Mary's University School of Law (1994, with Honors) and her undergraduate degree from the University of Texas (1982). She is a member of the State Bar of Texas where she has served on the following committees: Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct Committee; Rules of Evidence Committee; and the Lawyers Assistance Committee. She is also a member of the Texas Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism and the College of the State Bar of Texas. Ms. Heil is a Credentialed Advanced Mediator and a member of the Association of Attorney Mediators, the Texas Association of Mediators and the Texas Mediator Credentialing Association.
The seminar registration fee for this CLEonline.com seminar is only $50.
This seminar is accredited for 2.0 hours of participatory CLE credit (all in the subject area of legal ethics) by the MCLE Committees of the State Bar of Texas and the State Bar of California. In addition, regular CLE credits for this seminar are also available in a number of other states. CLEonline.com is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider pursuant to Sec. 9 of the California MCLE Rules and Regulations. (These are not self-study credits, but rather 'participatory' credits as you would receive for attending a traditional, live CLE seminar.)
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