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Offit Kurman CLE: Ethical Practices – Timekeeping and Budgeting
January 23, 2019 at 11:30 am EST
January 23, 2019
Lunch and registration: 11:30 - 12:00 pm
Session: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Location:
Offit Kurman's Tysons Corner Office
8000 Towers Crescent Dr #1500
Vienna, VA 22182
Satellite Location:
Offit Kurman's Philadelphia Office
1801 Market Street
Suite 2300
Philadelphia, PA 19103
In its lengthy opinion on the 2013 case of Clemens et al v. New York Central Mutual Fire Insurance Company, the Court was outraged by the ethical breach and the “outrageously excessive” fees stemming from a failure to maintain contemporaneous time records and instead relying on one attorney to “’reconstruct’ records for every attorney, paralegal, or IT staff member billing time on this matter over an approximately six year period.” This decision was appealed, and then affirmed in September 2018. In this CLE, we will consider Clemens, define the terms “latency” and “velocity” as they relate to ethical timekeeping, and offer practical solutions to meet the ethical standards framed by RPC Rules 1.4 and 1.5 and these decisions.
*This class is approved for 1.0 Ethics CLE in DE, PA, NY and is pending approval in VA.
Presented by Attorney John Raftery
John Raftery is a member of the firm's Management Committee and a Regional Practice Group Director—a role which oversees many of Offit Kurman’s legal service teams. Leveraging years of experience in real estate litigation, fair housing defense and business law, John serves as a trusted advisor to closely held businesses and organizations and local and regional management companies. John helps his clients negotiate or litigate through legal obstacles and difficulties– without ever losing focus of cost benefit parameters. John’s clients have included property management industry leaders, managers and owners of residential and commercial real estate, C-level officers of small and mid-sized corporations, directors of not-for-profit organizations and individual clients seeking cost effective representation. Currently, John serves as General Counsel for Property Management Association, as well as the USA Bobsled & Skeleton Federation, where he also serves on the board of directors.
To reserve your space, please contact Tony Gerdes at 410-209-6421 or at tgerdes@offitkurman.com. Please also fill out the registration field below.
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