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PRACTICE,
ADVANCE
YOUR CAREER

The Bar Plan Foundation is proud to offer a variety of Ethics CLE Seminars and Webinar options throughout the year on topics law firms face every day. In addition to our own low-cost annual CLE programming, we partner with a number of Bar Associations, legal industry organizations and vendors to offer high-quality, informative and interesting topics to help you keep your practice and your career thriving.

The Bar Plan Foundation's
2024 3-Hour
New Mexico Seminar

Register Below for This Free Ethics Seminar.

3.0 Hours of Ethics CLE Credit Approved. 

 

When: Tuesday October 1, 2024

Where: State Bar of New Mexico, 5121 Masthead St. NE, Albuquerque, NM 87109

Agenda:

8:30 - 9:00 a.m.    Arrival & Check-In
9:00 - 10:00 a.m. 

The 2024 QUIZ

All New! - The QUIZ – A potpourri of the today's hottest legal topics and what you need to know to protect yourself from novel malpractice risks and ethics complaints.
10:00 - 10:10 a.m. Break
10:10 – 11:10 a.m. 

The Ethics and Malpractice Risks of Generative Artificial Intelligence  

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) has the potential to change the practice of law with real opportunities for growth and advancement for attorneys who knowledgeably adopt and use GAI tools. However, ignoring GAI technology or hastily rushing its implementation can create ethics and malpractice risks. A look at GAI and New Mexico Rules of Professional Conduct 16-101 Competence; 16-104 Communication; 16-105 Fees; 16-106 Confidentiality of Information; 16-118 Duties to Prospective Client; 16-301Meritorius Claims and Contentions; 16-303 Candor Toward the Tribunal; 16-401 Truthfulness in Statements to Others; 16-404 Respect for Rights of Third Persons; and 16-503  Responsibilities Regarding  Nonlawyer Assistants.

 
11:10 - 11:20 a.m.  Break
11:20 - 12:20 a.m. The Ethics and Malpractice Risks of Generative Artificial                                                Intelligence (Cont.)

 

Speaker: Chris Stiegemeyer, Director of Risk Management, The Bar Plan Mutual Insurance Company & Executive Vice President, The Bar Plan Foundation

 

Thank you for participating in another great CLE Seminar Season! Stay tuned for information about future webinars!

2025 Spring Risk Management Series - 15 Hours of CLE for only $110!

(Ethics) Hour 1(50 minutes) – The QUIZ: A potpourri of the hottest topics in legal malpractice and ethics, and what you need to know to protect yourself from novel malpractice risks and ethics complaints.

(Ethics) Hour 2 (50 minutes) – The Ethics and Malpractice Risk When Lawyers Leave Law Firms – Lawyers leave law firms.  Sometimes to take positions as other firms, start their own firm, leave the practice entirely, retire, or…gulp, die, disappear or become disabled.  All of these occurrences implicate the “left behind” lawyers’ duties under Missouri Rule of Professional Conduct 4-1.1. Competence, 4-1.3. Diligence, 4-1.4. Communication, 4-1.5. Fees, 4-1.6. Confidentiality of Information, 4-1.8. Conflict of interest; current clients; specific rules, 4-1.9 & 4- 1.10. Duties & Conflict of Interest, Former Client & Imputation to Law Firm, 4-1.15. Safekeeping Property, 4-1.16. Declining or Terminating Representation, 4-5.1. Responsibilities of partners, managers and supervisory lawyers, 4-5.6 Restrictions on Right to Practice, 4-8.3. Reporting Professional Misconduct, and 4-8.4. Misconduct.  Attendees will learn how to identify where their potential ethics and malpractice risk lies, and the systems they need to have in place BEFORE they are “left behind.”

(Elimination of Bias) Hour 3 (50 minutes) - Imposter Syndrome in the Legal Profession - Legal professionals subject to imposter syndrome experience feelings of self-doubt and incompetence no matter what their education, experience, and professional accomplishments might be. For too long this Syndrome has been thought of as an individual, internal phenomenon.  However, increasingly this issue is understood as being strongly linked to broader socio-cultural contexts. This program will examine how historical biases in the legal profession, societal structures, and law firm customs contribute to its manifestation and perpetuation and identify steps individuals and organizations can take to positively address them.
The Ethics and Malpractice Risk When Lawyers Leave Law Firms

(Ethics) Hour 1 (50 minutes) – The QUIZ: A potpourri of the hottest topics in legal malpractice and ethics, and what you need to know to protect yourself from novel malpractice risks and ethics complaints.

(Ethics) Hour 2 (50 minutes) – The Ethics and Malpractice Risk When Lawyers Leave Law Firms – Lawyers leave law firms.  Sometimes to take positions as other firms, start their own firm, leave the practice entirely, retire, or…gulp, die, disappear or become disabled.  All of these occurrences implicate the duties of the “left behind” lawyer and the leaving lawyer under Kansas Rules of Professional Conduct.  Attendees will learn how to identify where their potential ethics and malpractice risk lies, and the systems they need to have in place BEFORE they are “left behind.”
(Elimination of Bias) Hour 1 (50 minutes) - The Ethics and Malpractice Risks of Cultural Incompetency & Bias
This program will include a comparison of Missouri Rule 4-8.4(g), Kansas Rule 8.4(c), (d) & (g)), and ABA Model Rule 8.4(g), their related COMMENTS and the implications for their differences, and an overview of general explicit or implicit bias, diversity, inclusion, or cultural competency awareness issues and resources.
(Ethics) (50 minutes) - Quantum Meruit, Lodestar, Rule 4-1.5 and Reasonable Fees
This program will discuss the unique and distinct features of Quantum Meruit and Lodestar calculations and the ethics and malpractice risks that can arise when proceeding for attorney’s’ fees under these different recovery models.  This program is for every lawyer who charges clients a fee.
(Ethics) (50 minutes) - The Malpractice Risks of the Most Frequent Ethics Complaints
This program will analyze the relationship between the most frequently reported violations of the Rules of Professional Conduct and law firm processes and procedures and the malpractice liability arising from the relationship between them.
Watch this space for coming details of this exciting program!

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