Secret Settlements: Unethical & Bad for Your Clients & Practice - On Demand CLE
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Overly broad confidentiality provisions let defendants repeat their bad conduct and hurt more people. They also restrict plaintiffs’ lawyers from effectively marketing their experience. The Model Rules of Professional Conduct that apply in nearly all jurisdictions make the secrecy provisions that settling defendants often want to impose on your clients unethical. Join Patrick Malone as he teaches you how to use ethics provisions to defeat, or at least severely curtail, the defense’s demands for confidentiality.
In this 60-minute CLE on the ethics of confidential settlements, Malone will cover:
- Early client education
- How Rules 3.4-f and 5.6-b have been interpreted on the state and national level to greatly limit confidentiality in settlement agreements
- Special problems presented by presuit settlements and nondisparagement requests
- Practice tips for resisting and rewriting confidentiality provisions
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Speakers

Patrick Malone
Patrick Malone learned how to ask questions and get answers as an award-winning investigative journalist. Now he is a leading attorney working on behalf of seriously injured people in lawsuits against hospitals, doctors, drug companies, government agencies, and other defendants. Over the last three decades, he has won a long string of exceptional results for his clients. Malone is the author of Winning Medical Malpractice Cases with the Rules ... Learn More