Total Credits: 1.1 MCLE, 1.1 Ethics, 1.0 Kansas Credit-General, 1.0 Kansas Ethics
SAMPLE Fee Agreements…They’re everywhere! Legal research sites, bar associations, blogs, law firm websites. The trouble is, many of those SAMPLES are WRONG! This program will help you identify the absolutely vital malpractice and ethics issues you must master in order to avoid problems with this standard tool of your practice.
Focus points:
1) To understand the basic building blocks of fee agreements
2) To understand how a lawyer’s fiduciary duties to the client affect fee agreements
3) To understand why a fee agreement isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
Speaker & Moderator: Chris Stiegemeyer, The Bar Plan Mutual Insurance Company
| The Ethics of Fee Agreements (451.8 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| MOLAP Information (210.1 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Important Information for Attorneys Seeking Kansas Credit (102.8 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
Christian A. Stiegemeyer is the Director of Risk Management for The Bar Plan Mutual Insurance Company where he helps lawyers arrive at practical solutions to a wide variety of ethical and legal malpractice issues. He received his J.D. from Saint Louis University School of Law.
