Recorded Webinar: Practical Ethics Risk Management in Family Law Matters (legal ethics)

The frequency of ethical risk in family law matters requires a proactive preventative response. It is too late to pick up the pieces later. This session provides a practical guide in management of key ethics risk in family law practice, including:

• Understanding the primary duty to client in family law matters
• Risk of former or opposing client confidentiality will be compromised
• Theoretical risk of misuse test from McMillan v McMillan – how and when to apply
• The less stringent ‘no real risk’ test – is this the preferred test on conflict and confidentiality?
• The importance of clearly identifying specific confidential information at risk
• Other conflict issues arising in family law matters:

• relatives and associates as clients
• competing financial interests
• lawyers as witnesses
• acting against former client
• acting for more than one client

• Acting for parent where allegations parent has abused the children – what to do?
• Duty to disclose illegal conduct if made aware when acting for client
• Is there an ethics issue in determining need for arbitration?
• Case update