CLEonline.com is pleased to present a special online ethics CLE seminar for Texas attorneys to provide a review of the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct as they pertain to a transactional practice. In addition to focusing on the rules related to conflicts of interest and special issues related to the duty of confidentiality, this seminar will also highlight a number of pitfalls and lessons to help Texas lawyers avoid inadvertently committing ethical violations.
This seminar features an audio presentation by the instructor/moderator for this seminar, Prof. Patricia A. Wilson, of Baylor Law School 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 1.25 hours. This seminar is entitled:
Ethics for the Transactional Lawyer in Texas
** (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:
- THE CONSEQUENCES
- CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
- Representation of Multiple Parties
- Conflicts between Current Clients
- Conflicts between Former Clients and Current Clients
- Conflicts with the Lawyerís Own Interests
- Advance Conflict Waivers
- CONFIDENTIALITY
- Confidentiality in General
- Regulated Industries
- Opinion Letters
- MULTIJURISDICTIONAL PRACTICE
The instructor/moderator for this CLEonline.com seminar will be:
Prof. Patricia A. Wilson of Baylor Law School where her teaching responsibilities include Family Law, Employment Discrimination, Employment Relations, and Consumer Protection. She taught the first year Property course for 12 years. In the past, she has also taught courses in Antitrust, Intellectual Property, and Legal Writing. Before joining the Baylor Law Faculty in 1993, Professor Wilson practiced law for seven years, including four years with American Airlines, Inc. where she was responsible for managing litigation matters worth millions of dollars and for negotiating and drafting contracts in a number of areas, including software licensing and health care plan administration. She also handled matters involving airline regulation and employment discrimination. Her professional activities include regularly speaking at CLE seminars in New York, San Francisco, and Austin. She is also a member of the State Bar of Texas Consumer and Commercial Law Council, and will serve as secretary beginning in August 2006. Professor Wilson is also actively involved in the Waco community serving on the boards of a number of local nonprofit organizations. She received her law degree from Northwestern University School of Law (J.D., 1985), where she was a member of the Board of Editors of the Journal of International Law and Business and her undergraduate degree from Purdue University (B.A., 1982, Sociology).
The seminar registration fee for this CLEonline.com seminar is only $32.
This seminar is accredited for 1.25 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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