MCLE Credits: 1.0 Ethics Credits Included: 1.0
A pre-recorded streaming VIDEO replay of one session from the January 2015 live seminar, Hanging a Shingle: How to Start a Successful Law Practice.
This program focuses on the ethical considerations that law firms face associated with trust accounts, credit card accounts, and other bank accounts. Ms. Haley also addresses the proper utilization of fee agreements and retainers, and how to avoid ethical violations.
FACULTY
Leslie A.T. Haley, Haley Law, PLC / Richmond Leslie A.T. Haley is currently providing legal ethics and law office management advice and counsel to lawyers and law firms. Ms. Haley is the former Senior Assistant Ethics Counsel for the Virginia State Bar where she spent fourteen years advising Virginia lawyers and judges on questions of ethics and lawyer advertising as well as unauthorized practice of law issues. She served as staff liaison to the Legal Ethics Committee and drafted numerous advisory ethics opinions. She is a frequent author and lecturer on various CLE topics both in Virginia and on a national level. Ms. Haley is President of the Greater Richmond Bar Foundation board, a member of the Lewis F. Powell, Jr. American Inn of Court and a past-president of the Metropolitan Richmond Women’s Bar Association. She is also a 2010 recipient of the Influential Women of Virginia Award.