Ethics/Professional Responsibility,
Law Practice,
Litigation & Arbitration
Oct. 26, 2023
Lessons learned from classic fictional attorneys
We set the stage with examples of how fictional attorneys handled a thorny issue, and then broke down how the attorney got it wrong (or right) by applying the rules of professional conduct.
T he Set Up
A few years ago, a colleague from the San Francisco Bar Association's Legal Ethics Committee and I started an annual tradition of presenting a CLE to our members about legal ethics lessons learned from fictional attorneys. We started with contemporary legal television shows and films in year one and added a few more for...
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