It's been said that the entire legal ethics canon can be summed up in two rules: (1) Keep your hands off the money; and (2) Keep your hands off the client. And while this is a gross oversimplification of the legal ethics rules, it is true that these two breaches of fiduciary trust are among the gravest transgressions that a lawyer can make. Moreover, as they are often amongst the most heavily-punished violations, they often start a cascading effect of rule-breaking as lawyers desperately attempt to avoid their detection. As a result, it never hurts to review these all-important ethical limitations on lawyer conduct.
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Nebraska MCLE #256802. 2.0 CLE Hours, including 2.0 Ethics Hours. (OnDemand credit)
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**This program has been approved for 2.0 hours of distance-learning CLE, including 2.0 hours of ethics. You may claim 2.0 hours of credit total for this program.
Sean A. Carter graduated from Harvard Law School in 1992. He was a corporate securities lawyer in private practice in large law firms in Boston and Los Angeles serving clients such as GNC, the Boston Beer Company, Experian, Safelite Auto Glass, J. Crew and many others. In 2000, he accepted a position as in-house counsel for a publicly-traded financial institution, at which he remained until October 2002. Since that time, Mr. Carter has been a full-time lecturer, columnist, and legal commentator. His written have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Daily Journal, the ABA e-Report and on numerous blogs and websites, including Findlaw.com. He has been a guest on numerous radio programs across the country as well as online legal media outlets, such as The Legal Broadcast Network.
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