Legal Ethics: The Limits of Aggressive Counsel

Credit Hours:
CO - Ethics: 1.2 Credits
WV - Ethics: 1.2 Credits
WA - Ethics: 1.0 Credits

Course Description

In this presentation Barry Kaye and Alan F. Broidy will discuss different issues that come up from professional responsibility angles, as well as statutory issues of malicious prosecution that could arise in the context when attorneys go beyond what they should be doing in their required ethical bounds. They will explore what role the attorney should be playing in terms of devising novel legal arguments. They will take look at what the courts say, as well as the existing codes of professional conduct.