Lawyers must comply with the Bar rules and ethical requirements regarding the types of lawyer fees, referral fees, fee sharing, non-refundable fees, and also the requirements related to fees, costs, settlement funds under the Bar Trust Account Rules.
This presentation will address those topics and provide tips and information to ensure that lawyers have the knowledge they need to comply with the Bar rules related to these ethics topics.
Model Rules to be addressed are:
ABA Model Rules 1.5, 7.2, 5.4
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