The Practising Law Institute is offering a webcast of a live presentation from New York entitled Ethical Issues in Pro Bono Representation 2022 on December 12, 2022 from 9:00 AM-11:10 AM.

Registration: $129

Full scholarships and discounts to attend PLI programs are widely available to attorneys working in nonprofit/legal services organizations; pro bono attorneys; government attorneys; judges and judicial law clerks; law professors and law students; senior attorneys (age 65 and over); law librarians and paralegals who work for nonprofit/legal services organizations; unemployed attorneys; and others with financial hardships.

All eligible attendees are urged to complete and submit a PLI Scholarship Application.
https://www.pli.edu/probono/pbscholarship

Using a series of hypotheticals illustrating “real world” ethics issues that arise in pro bono and legal services representation, participants will learn to identify important ethics issues and apply best practices to avoid them. Practitioners must always be keenly aware of conflicts of interest issues, and these will be addressed throughout the program in various practice settings.

What You Will Learn

By completing this program, participants will be able to better understand these ethics issues that arise in the context of pro bono representation:   

• Who is the client?
• Confidentiality and conflicts
• Scope of representation: how limited scope representation works for law firm and in-house counsel
• Representing clients with diminished capacity
• Unauthorized representation
• Ethical issues related to language access

Who Should Attend

This program will benefit all attorneys engaged in pro bono representation working in law firms or in-house, as well as attorneys practicing in nonprofit and legal services organizations.