Learn how to handle legal errors ethically and effectively, with tips to navigate mistakes, client discussions, and avoiding common pitfalls.
Statistics confirm year after year that legal malpractice claims are on the rise. Thus, it is likely that at some point in their career, a lawyer will discover that they have made an error or a mistake in a client matter. What happens next can be critical, both for the lawyer's ethical obligations to their client and their own potential future exposure. However, the discovery of a mistake does not have to be a gut-wrenching issue. This presentation will identify tips for how to navigate a mistake or error in a client representation, including the attorney's ethical obligations to the client, how the conversation with the client should go, and what steps may follow. This live webinar will also discuss common mistakes lawyers make in trying to mitigate an error, and how to avoid making a situation worse.
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Alanna Clair
Dentons
- Partner at Dentons US LLP and head of D.C. Commercial Litigation Team
- Practice focuses on legal malpractice counseling and advice, as well as insurance cover-age
- Since 2018, co-author of twice monthly column in American Lawyer Media newspapers regarding ethical rules, legal malpractice prevention, and other issues of ‘lawyer’s law’
- Co-author of several books about legal malpractice law, including D.C. Legal Malpractice Law, Georgia Legal Malpractice Law, and The Lawyer’s Handbook
- Member of ABA’s CLE Committee for the ABA’s Center for Professional Responsibility and co-chair of the Attorneys’ Liability Subcommittee of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Professional Liability Litigation Section
- In 2020, named one of the top 40 under 40 Lawyers in Washington, D.C. by the Nation-al Law Journal
- In 2022, named one of Law360’s Rising Stars in the area of insurance.
- Wellesley College B.A. Degree, University of Michigan Law School J.D. Degree
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