Breakout session 10 | The ethics of hanging out your own shingle: How to have positive client relationships and avoid complaints (qualifies for 1.0 ethics hour)

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When you are setting up a new practice, the Rules of Professional Conduct can help guide you to success. This program will explore areas that frequently result in client complaints in the context of the Rules, and it will help you have positive client relationships and ethical firm practices. 

• The most common ethics violations based on disciplinary complaints.
• Key ethical considerations to hanging out your shingle.
• Resources to assist with ethical questions.

Speaker: Melinda J. Bentley, Legal Ethics Counsel, Jefferson City; Keith A. Cutler, James W. Tippin & Associates, Kansas City

Opinions and positions stated by presenters of MoBarCLE programs are those of the presenters and not necessarily those of The Missouri Bar. This program is intended as information for lawyers in Missouri, in conjunction with other research they deem necessary, in the exercise of their independent judgment.