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DVD - Common Ethics Dilemmas in Legal Services 2016

This session will cover the following topics: a) duties of competence, diligence, and communication, including defining the scope of representation; b) group representation and potential conflicts of interest; c) duties surrounding withdrawal from a case; and d) roles and responsibilities of those who are not lawyers when working with clients. Illustrative case scenarios will be provided.  The session will be interactive and will provide an opportunity for questions and discussion.  

This training was filmed on January 6, 2016.

  • CLE Credits
    Ethics and Professionalism: 2.00
  • Format
    On-Demand/Recorded - Audio/Video File
  • Practice Area(s)
    Ethics
  • Price: $150
  • Duration: 2

About the Faculty

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    Philip Genty (Speaker)

    Philip M. Genty is the Everett B. Birch Innovative Teaching Clinical Professor in Professional Responsibility at Columbia Law School. He joined the the Law School's faculty in 1989. He teaches civil procedure and professional responsibility. His research interests are in family law, legal ethics, clinical education, and prisoners’ rights. He has taught and consulted on clinical legal education and legal ethics in central and eastern Europe and Israel. He has developed legal resource materials for incarcerated parents and works with several organizations that assist women who are in prison. He is a member of the Professional Ethics Committee of the New York City Bar Association. Genty received Columbia University’s Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2014, and the Law School’s Willis L.M. Reese Prize for Excellence in Teaching in 2008. Prior to coming to the Law School, he taught at Brooklyn Law School and worked as an attorney at Prisoners' Legal Services of New York, the New York City Department of Housing, Preservation and Development, and the Bedford-Stuyvesant Community Legal Services Corporation.