11th Annual Avoiding Legal Malpractice Seminar 2022 (On Demand Seminar)

A pre-recorded streaming VIDEO replay of the September 2022 webcast, 11th Annual Avoiding Legal Malpractice Seminar 2022.

Malpractice suits not only cost firms money, but they also rob the firm’s leadership of valuable time they need to spend with clients or to address other management issues. They can also inflict enduring damage to a firm’s reputation.

This course is designed to educate attorneys on measures that can be taken to better serve the interests of their clients; and to encourage lawyers to establish and maintain standards in their law practice to meet their responsibilities to their clients.

During this 2-hour seminar, Eileen Garczynski and Dennis Quinn provide both new and experienced practitioners with an overview of the most common legal malpractice claims (and related risks, such as cyber, management, and employment-related claims), and how to avoid them. They also explain how to avoid the errors that frequently occur and how to respond appropriately to risky situations with a dive deep into the ethical issues associated with these risks. Attendees should come away from this seminar with ways to reduce risk while also making the firm eligible for favorable Lawyers’ Professional Liability Insurance pricing and coverage.

Topics of discussion include:

• Update on Legal Malpractice Claim Statistics
• Most likely types of legal malpractice claims arising out of the economic downturn and how to avoid them
• Lateral hires and associate training issues during and post-COVID
• Identifying potential conflicts of interest among affiliated companies
• Recognizing which clients to take and which to avoid
• Tips for better engagement and disengagement letters
• Protecting client confidences and communications
• Technology and cybersecurity concerns for attorneys working from home
• Lawyer well-being post-pandemic

FACULTY

Eileen Garczynski, Ames & Gough / McLean
Dennis Quinn, Carr Maloney / Washington, DC

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Eileen Garczynski, Ames & Gough / McLean
Eileen Garczynski is a senior vice president and equity partner of Ames & Gough. She is a lawyer by training and has more than 30 years of risk management and insurance experience. She leads the law firm initiative at Ames & Gough, focusing on the risk management and insurance needs of law firms. She is a Special Liaison to the American Bar Association's (ABA) Standing Committee on Lawyers' Professional Liability, having been a former member of that committee. She is also the former vice chair of the Insurance & Risk Management Committee for the Section of Intellectual Property Law of the ABA. Ms. Garczynski recently authored the second edition of How to Place a Cyber Liability Insurance Policy, as well as a guide on Protecting Law Firms Against Management Liability Threats for the American Bar Association

Dennis Quinn, Carr Maloney / Washington, DC
Dennis Quinn is a partner at Carr Maloney. He concentrates his practice on professional liability, commercial litigation, and ethics counseling. He has successfully represented hundreds of clients in legal malpractice actions, accounting malpractice actions, and ethical complaints, trying cases in most of the state and federal courts in the District of Columbia, Virginia, and Maryland. He served six years on the Virginia State Bar’s Standing Committee on Legal Ethics, three as the Committee’s Chair. Mr. Quinn regularly advises lawyers and law firms on ethical issues, frequently speaking to bar associations and professional groups on ethics, risk management, and the avoidance of malpractice claims and bar complaints.