Refocusing your Life, your Career, and your Trial Practice Featuring Jim Blackburn

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Starting Over Today: Ethics and Professionalism in your Practice

This presentation is a very detailed and personal study of Ethics and Professionalism as told by someone who was very successful in the practice of law, both in government and private practice before getting himself into serious legal and ethical difficulties, losing his law license and spending years in private counseling and psycho-therapy.

The program studies the requirements that a lawyer represent clients to the best of his or her ability, communicating regularly and effectively with the client, including meetings and phone calls on a regular basis, the necessity of maintaining complete honesty with the client at all times, being zealous and passionate in that representation, maintaining the dignity and high standards of the legal profession, and doing all of this on a timely basis.

Essentially, this program is a personal study of the Rules of Professional Conduct, with the concept that despite any past practices that have not been up to the best standards, today, you can start over and change…for the better.

Hiding in Plain Site: Ethics and Professionalism in the Legal Profession

This session is a detailed discussion of the mental illness of depression, how it can come about and how it can affect lawyers and their performances and conduct, what should a lawyer do if he or she is suffering from depression, what are the symptoms specifically to lawyers, how other lawyers should react to someone suffering from depression and finally how to get better. 

The Art of Litigation

Joe McGinniss, the bestselling author of Fatal Vision, once said a trial is like hanging pictures on a wall. It is the responsibility of the plaintiff in a civil case or a prosecutor in a criminal case to put up as many pictures as possible.  It is the responsibility of the other side to take them down.  At the end of the trial, who has been the most successful at this often has the best chance of winning.

Litigation is the telling of two stories…one by either side.  Determining how best to tell your story is the focus of this one hour CLE program. 

The best trial lawyers are those who are the most prepared, have the most passion for their case, leave nothing to chance and know the weaknesses of their case as well as the strengths.

This is a program about finding passion in your case and telegraphing that to the judge or jury.  It is then that you     have the best chance of winning.

Seminar Information
Date Presented:
December 12, 2014 8:50 AM Eastern
Length:
3 hours
Refocusing your Life, your Career, and your Trial Practice Featuring Jim Blackburn
Speaker Information
Jim Blackburn   [ view bio ]
Individual topic purchase: Selected
South Carolina Supreme Court Commission on CLE & Specialization
Mandatory Continuing Legal Education: 3.00
Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility: 1.00
Substance Abuse and Mental Health (SA/MH): 1.00
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