Recorded Webinar: The Ethics of Tactics – Ducking and Weaving in the Family Law Jurisdiction (Ethics)

Courts are a strategic battlefield – and minefield. It may not be worthy of Perry Mason but there is a place for intelligent tactics. Court strategy is part of the family lawyer’s tool chest. This is about useful and ethical strategies to really advance your client’s interests:

• Understanding your ethical duty to the Court:
  • understanding your client’s real interests
  • promoting those interests and not breaching your ethical duties
• Choosing your dispute resolution process – the client’s second most important decision
• Dealing with dubious lawyering – be it competence, ethics or procrastination
• Court process choices explained
• Stay applications – preserving and protecting your client
• Appeals and stays – when and why
• Innovative ways to approach settlement