Continuing education · Professional
CPD: Conflicts and Confidentiality
Identifying a conflict before it becomes one, the duty of confidentiality after the matter ends, and whether information barriers actually work.
What you get
3 hours of continuing professional development. Whether your regulator accepts them is a matter for your regulator.
- Hours
- 3
- Pass mark
- 60%
- Languages
- en
- Modules
- 4
Syllabus
- 1 Own-interest and client conflicts Identification and the narrow exceptions.
- 2 Former clients A duty that outlives the retainer.
- 3 Information barriers What they require to be effective.
- 4 Declining and withdrawing Doing it without harming the client.
What this covers
Each area links to the statutes and judgments that actually govern it, in whichever jurisdiction you are working in.
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