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1. Preventative Lawyering/Best Practices/Risk Management
2. Conflicts of Interest
3. Technology
4. Axioms To Remember In Practice

1. PREVENTATIVE LAWYERING/BEST PRACTICES/RISK MANAGEMENT
   8:45 - 10:00 and 1:00 - 2:15, Carole R. Richelieu
   1. Inception of the Attorney/Client Relationship
   2. Fee Agreements/Unbundling
   3. Maintaining the Attorney/Client Relationship
   4. Internal Office Controls
   5. Trust and Operating Accounts
   6. Ending the Attorney/Client Relationship
2. CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
   10:15 - 10:45 and 2:30 - 3:00, Carole R. Richelieu
   1. Types of Conflicts
   2. Recognizing Conflicts
   3. Resolving and Consequences of Conflicts
3. TECHNOLOGY
   10:45 - 11:15 and 3:00 - 3:30, Carole R. Richelieu
   1. Wireless Communications
   2. Cell Phones
   3. Computers
   4. Metadata
   5. Inadvertent Disclosures
4. AXIOMS TO REMEMBER IN PRACTICE
   11:15 - 12:00 and 3:30 - 4:15, Carole R. Richelieu

CAROLE R. RICHELIEU is the former and longest serving chief disciplinary counsel of Hawaii's Office of Disciplinary Counsel and former fund administrator for the Lawyers' Fund for Client Protection. She is currently a per diem hearings officer, hearing unemployment appeals for the State Department of Labor, and a legal ethics expert and instructor. She has made numerous presentations on legal ethics, client protection, and professionalism, as well as written many articles and contributed to numerous manuals. She was a member of the Hawaii's Supreme Court's Commission on Professionalism, and a co-chair and faculty on the court's course on professionalism since its inception. Ms. Richelieu has served as a Supreme Court appointee to the Chief Justice's National Action Plan (producing the first one in the nation) Committee to Review the Code of Judicial Conduct; the Committee on the Certification of Legal Specialists; the Committee on Unbundling Legal Services/Unauthorized Practice of Law; and continues to serve on the Board of Examiners. She is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a Bencher with the American Inns of Court, a poll official and a notary. Ms. Richelieu is a member of the American Bar Association, the Hawaii State Bar Association (on which she served many committees and has been elected as a director for the Senior Counsel Division), and the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility. She was appointed by the ABA to serve on the ABA Advisory Commission on Lawyers' Funds for Client Protection (2000 - 2001) and Chair the Commission (2001-2002), and was a member of the ABA Standing Committee on Client Protection through 2009. A former vice-president and president of the National Client Protection Organization, she served as NCPO's liaison to the ABA Standing Committee on Client Protection and ABA Center Coordinating Council. Ms. Richelieu has participated in the International Association of Trial Lawyers China Project and fund raising for the Hawaii Women Legal Foundation for many years, and served on the American Judicature Society's Special Committee on Court Conflicts.

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