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ISBA Mutual Lunch and Learn: What to Learn from Real-Life Malpractice Claims – Avoiding Pitfalls & Adopting Best Practices

When: April 23, 2020, 11:30 a.m. check-in and lunch, session is from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Where: ISBA Mutual Offices, 20 S. Clark St., Ste. 800
What: Lunch and Learn: What to Learn from Real-Life Malpractice Claims – Avoiding Pitfalls & Adopting Best Practices

Advance registration required.


In this presentation, participants will learn about real-life legal malpractice claims, how those claims were defended and litigated, and what “best practices” they can adopt so as to avoid and/or minimize the risk of being sued for legal malpractice.

You will learn:

  • What is legal malpractice
  • What practice areas are particularly susceptible to legal malpractice claims and why
  • How legal malpractice claims are litigated
  • How the Rules of Professional Conduct impact a legal malpractice case
  • How the Rules of Professional Conduct can help guide some “best practices” so as to avoid potential legal malpractice claims

Speaker:

  • Daniel F. Konicek, Partner, Konicek & Dillon, P.C.

Every lawyer who attends this free lunch and learn will receive 1.00 hours of approved MCLE credit, which includes 1.00 hours of professional responsibility MCLE credit (currently pending approval).

Lunch will be provided.

This is part of a series of Lunch and Learns hosted by ISBA Mutual.

We are a malpractice insurance company created by lawyers, run by lawyers, for lawyers. Unlike other insurance carriers, we only serve the Illinois lawyers malpractice market.

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