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    Ethics of Co-Counsel and Referral Relationships

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    Co-counsel and referral relationships are common in law practice.

    Lawyers associate with other lawyers on cases to gain specialized knowledge required for competent representation in a case. Litigation counsel may seek local counsel on a case in another jurisdiction. Lawyers also refer out business for a variety of reasons, including overflow work or the work is outside of a lawyer's core competencies.

    These any many other co-counsel and referral relationships, however, raise substantial ethical and malpractice issues.

    This program provides a framework for understanding the ethical issues surrounding co-counsel and referral relationships.

    • Duty to supervise counsel to whom you have referred work
    • Associating with other lawyers or firms to gain competence in specific areas
    • Fee splitting in co-counsel or referral relationships
    • Liability to co-counsel for breaches of fiduciary duty or malpractice
    • Liability for errors of co-counsel
    • Duty to inform of malpractice by co-counsel

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    • Brian S. Faughnan

      Brian S. Faughnan is special counsel in the Memphis office of Thomason Hendrix Harvey Johnson & Mitchell PLLC, where he represents clients in a wide variety of matters at the trial level and on appeal. He counsels lawyers and law firms on a wide variety of issues surrounding legal ethics and professional responsibility.

      Brian is the chair of the Tennessee Bar Association's Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, a reporter for the committee's rules revision project, a member of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers, and a member of the Media Law Resource Center's Ethics Committee.

      Brian received his B.A. from Rhodes College and his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Memphis School of Law.

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    • William Freivogel

      William Freivogel is the principal of Freivogel Ethics Consulting and is an independent consultant to law firms on ethics and risk management. He was a trial lawyer for 22 years and has practiced in the areas of legal ethics and lawyer malpractice for more than 25 years. He is chair of the Editorial Board of the ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct. He maintains the website Freivogel on Conflicts. Mr. Freivogel is a graduate of the University of Illinois (Champaign), where he received his B.S. and LL.B.

      Click here for more information about William.

    May 30, 2023
    Tue 1:00 PM EDT

    Duration 1H 0M

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