| MCLE Credit: | 1.0 (Ethics: 1.0) |
| Live-Interactive Credit: | 0.0 |
| Designation Credit: | 1.0 Ethics |
| Price: | $79 (Includes a downloadable audio version.) |
| Viewable Through: | 07/31/2027 |
$79.00 (or 1 Bundle Credit)
A pre-recorded streaming VIDEO replay of the September 2024 webcast, Demystifying Legal Fees.
Trust account violations are consistently in the top two violations of the Virginia Rules of Professional Conduct and account for one-fifth of disciplinary sanctions annually. Many violations are avoidable and arise from a misunderstanding about lawyers’ ethical obligations under Rules of Professional Conduct 1.5(a) (Fees); 1.15 (Safekeeping Property); and 1.16 (Declining or Terminating Representation). This one-hour seminar reviews lawyers’ ethical obligations so lawyers can avoid the common pitfalls associated with legal fees.
Renu M. Brennan, Virginia State Bar / Richmond
Renu Brennan is the Bar Counsel for the Virginia State Bar. She served as Deputy Executive Director of the VSB from 2016 to 2018, and as Assistant Bar Counsel for the Bar from 2008 to 2016. Ms. Brennan is Secretary of Lawyers Helping Lawyers and is a member of the ABA Standing Committee on Client Protection. She was a faculty member for the Virginia State Bar Harry L. Carrico Professionalism Course from 2008 to 2011, and she has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Virginia since 2007. She also served as co-chair of the Judicial Nominations Committee of APABA-VA from 2009 to 2011. Ms. Brennan participated as an instructor in the Virginia Bar Association’s Rule of Law program.
Prior to coming to the Bar, Ms. Brennan was a partner with the firm of Vandeventer Black, LLP, where she handled professional malpractice and commercial litigation. From 1998 to 2004, she was with the firm of Wright, Robinson, Osthimer & Tatum in Richmond, Virginia. She is licensed in Virginia, the District of Columbia, and California, where she practiced in Los Angeles. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia and a law degree from Boston University School of Law.
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.
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