Recorded Webinar: Conflict of Interest and Professional Obligation – Dealing With Ethical Priorities (Legal Ethics)

Whilst conflict of interest is a clear ethics issue, it is necessary to look at exactly what that means under the solicitor conduct rules. This session looks at conflict of interest from a practitioner’s professional obligation perspective and the solicitor conduct rules:

• Conflict-of-interest situations explained:
• conflicts and former clients
  • conflicts and current clients
  • conflicts and the solicitor’s own interests
• Preventing conflict situations arising – a checklist
• Managing the conflict once it arises
• Disclosure obligations when conflicts arise
• Ensuring appropriate systems to prevent conflicts of interest – “Chinese” walls
• Your opponent is conflicted – what are your options?
• When should you remove yourself from a matter – and how to do it
• Conflict situations in big firms and multidisciplinary firms
• Case study – acting for parents and then acting for children