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Entertainment & Sports,
Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Sep. 13, 2021

Legal ethics lessons learned from TV lawyers

You know that feeling you get when you want to yell at the screen because a fictional lawyer in a television show mishandled a legal ethics dilemma?

Joanna L. Storey Mishler

Senior Counsel
Klinedinst PC

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You know that feeling you get when you want to yell at the screen because a fictional lawyer in a television show mishandled a legal ethics dilemma?

You can learn from such scenarios and educate other lawyers in your firm about how you would have handled the situation differently. Set the stage with examples of how the fictional lawyer handled a thorny issue, and then break down how the lawyer got it wrong (or right) by applying the rules...

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