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1. Ethical Client Communications
2. Responsible Management of Attorney's Fees and Client Trust Accounts
3. Record-Keeping Practices That Prevent Legal Malpractice Allegations
4. Preventing Legal Malpractice in Everyday Practice

ETHICAL CLIENT COMMUNICATIONS
8:45 - 9:30, John A. Snow

• Protecting Confidentiality
• Preventing Conflicts of Interest
• Keeping the Client in the Loop
• Admitting to the Client When You've Made a Mistake
• Managing Difficult Clients
• What to do When Co-Clients are Fighting?
• Representing a Mentally Incapable Client or a Minor
• Implied Attorney-Client Contracts

RESPONSIBLE MANAGEMENT OF ATTORNEYS' FEES AND CLIENT TRUST ACCOUNTS
9:30 - 10:15, John A. Snow

• Choosing the Appropriate Billing Method
• Initial Fee Agreements
• Simple Tips to Avoid Commingling of Funds
• Keeping Impeccable Financial Records
• How to Write Invoices That Clients Will Pay
• Fee Splitting
• Resolving Fee Disputes

RECORDKEEPING PRACTICES THAT PREVENT LEGAL MALPRACTICE ALLEGATIONS
10:30 - 11:15, John A. Snow

• How Long do I Keep the Closed Case File?
• What Must be Done When a Lawyer Enters or Leaves the Firm?
• Electronic Communications Challenges
• Can an Attorney Secretly Record Conversations?

PREVENTING LEGAL MALPRACTICE IN EVERYDAY PRACTICE
11:15 - 12:00, John A. Snow

• Interstate Practice of Law
• Partnering With Colleagues and Case Referral
• Ethical Advertising and the Pitfalls in Online Marketing
• Assisting a Pro Se Litigant
• Unauthorized Practice of Law – What to do When You're in Way Over Your Head
• Hidden Dangers of Office Sharing Arrangements

JOHN A. SNOW is a shareholder at VanCott, Bagley, Cornwall & McCarthy, with offices in Utah and Nevada. His practice consists of general civil litigation, including general commercial and business litigation, construction, insurance, professional malpractice and personal injury. Mr. Snow was named in The Best Lawyers in America, in the areas of legal malpractice, construction and commercial litigation. He also is designated in Utah Business magazine's Utah Legal Elite in the specialty of civil litigation and as a Super Lawyer in the Mountain States in Super Lawyers magazine. Mr. Snow speaks extensively in Utah and Nevada for various business and professional groups on his areas of practice. He is a member of the Utah State Bar, the State Bar of Nevada and the American Bar Association. Mr. Snow earned his B.A. degree from Brigham Young University and his J.D. degree, cum laude, from Arizona State University.

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