Legal Ethics in a New York Minute Kaylin Whittingham
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Stay in compliance with your ethical obligations, avoid grievance complaints (ethics investigations) and minimize legal malpractice suits. Legal Ethics in a New York Minute is your legal ethics briefing designed to help you accomplish these goals. Each Season, host, Kaylin Whittingham analyzes the Ethical Rules, Disciplinary Decisions, and Ethics Opinions to share secrets to stay on track and tips on traps to avoid.
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Episode 8 - Reciprocal Discipline
Welcome to the eight episode of Legal Ethics in a New York Minute with host Kaylin Whittingham. Your Legal Ethics briefing where you’ll hear tips to stay on track and traps to avoid. In this episode, Kaylin explains why what happens in Vegas, does NOT stay in Vegas when it comes to Reciprocal Discipline. Kaylin goes into the importance of self reporting when you have been disciplined in another jurisdiction and the potential consequences of failing to self report. Also included, some case exa...
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Episode 7 - Supervision
Welcome to the seventh episode of Legal Ethics in a New York Minute with host Kaylin Whittingham. Your Legal Ethics briefing where you’ll hear tips to stay on track and traps to avoid. In this episode, Kaylin takes a look at the importance of supervision and how you can be held accountable for not just your own actions as an attorney; but also the actions of your associates and non-attorney employees, from managers to bookkeepers. Kaylin goes into two great case examples in this episode...
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Episode 6 - Communications
Welcome to the sixth episode of Legal Ethics in a New York Minute with host Kaylin Whittingham. Your Legal Ethics briefing where you’ll hear tips to stay on track and traps to avoid. In this episode, Kaylin covers the topic of communication, including communicating with your clients, the courts, your adversaries, co-counsels as well as internal communication with your staff. Kaylin breaks down three things you must do when it comes to communicating and how following these rules will help you ...
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Episode 5 - Conflict of Interest
Welcome to the fifth episode of Legal Ethics in a New York Minute with host Kaylin Whittingham. Your Legal Ethics briefing where you’ll hear tips to stay on track and traps to avoid. In this episode, Kaylin discusses conflict of interest breaking it down into two broad categories; client conflict and personal conflict. Kaylin also gives some useful tips as to how you can minimize your risk of conflict and ways to protect yourself, if a conflict of interest does arise. Kaylin also goes into de...
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Episode 4 - Escrow Part 2: Common Misconceptions and Misuse of Escrow Accounts
Welcome to the fourth episode of Legal Ethics in a New York minute with host Kaylin Whittingham. Your Legal Ethics briefing where you’ll hear tips to stay on track and traps to avoid. In this episode, Kaylin dispels some common misconceptions about escrow accounts, clearing up what is and isn't misuse of an escrow account. Kaylin delves into some practices that you may be surprised to learn could lead to you being disciplined. In this episode Kaylin also tells us why you should not hide third...
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Episode 3 - Escrow Part 1: The 5 DOs and 5 DON'Ts of Escrow Accounts
Welcome to the third episode of Legal Ethics in a New York minute with host Kaylin Whittingham. Your Legal Ethics briefing where you’ll hear tips to stay on track and traps to avoid. In this episode, Kaylin gives us her Top 5 DOs and Top 5 DON'Ts when it comes to escrow accounts. Kaylin explains why you should always keep your escrow accounts separate from your personal accounts as well as why it's vital to promptly deliver client and third party funds. Kaylin also covers something you should...