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Standard of Care: Do You Know What’s Expected of You. Future of Law

Standard of Care: Do You Know What’s Expected of You. Future of Law

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Credits
Substantive: 0.75
40 minutes
Published
2017
Presenter(s)
Stephen Cavanagh
Dan Pinnington
Source
County of Carleton Law Association (CCLA)
Provider
CPDOnline.ca
Language
English
Length
40 minutes
Price
$109.00 plus tax
CCLA 2017 Solicitors Conference
Includes Handouts

Standard of Care: Do You Know What’s Expected of You

Ethics and Professional Responsibility (Standard of Care applicable to Lawyers). Rules of Professional Conduct: 3.1-2 - Competence

Future of Law

Practice Management (Opening a legal practice or law firm; Maintaining Proper Books and Records; Technology in Law), Client Service (Making Legal services available to public). Practice Management Guidelines Section 5 (Technology); Section 6 (Professional Management in a Changing Environment)

Presenters

Stephen Cavanagh

Steve’s practice focuses on professional liability, insurance and commercial litigation. He has extensive experience in advising both insurers and insureds about coverage issues and has had a number of reported cases in that field. He has also acted as a mediator and as an arbitrator in various types of civil disputes, principally in the areas of insurance and commercial law. As well, he has acted as counsel in disciplinary proceedings. Steve is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, He is certified by the Law Society as a Specialist in Civil Litigation. He has been selected for inclusion among The Best Lawyers in Canada in Insurance Law and Malpractice Law has been “Repeatedly Recommended” as a Leading Practitioner in the field of “Litigation-Commercial Insurance” by LEXPERT. In 2014, 2017 and 2019, Best Lawyers in Canada named Steve the Lawyer of the Year in the area of Insurance Law in Ottawa. Since 2007, Steve has been a member of the Ontario Civil Rules Committee, which is responsible for the Rules of Civil Procedure. In 2013 and again in 2018, he was a member of a subcommittee which made recommendations to the Civil Rules Committee regarding the discount rate for future pecuniary damages (Rule 53.09). Those recommendations have since been enacted. He also served as a member of another subcommittee that considered the issue of whether medical examinations in a litigation context should be recorded. For five years, Steve was the Ottawa Senior Instructor in Civil Litigation for the Law Society of Upper Canada’s Bar Admission Course. He also taught Insurance Law and Trial Advocacy at uOttawa’s law school for several years. He was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1980.

Dan Pinnington

Dan Pinnington is a legal technology evangelist and is well known for his tech tips. As the Vice President, Claims Prevention and Stakeholder Relations at LAWPRO, Dan helps lawyers avoid malpractice claims and helps LAWPRO reach out to its stakeholders. His vision, energy and ideas have made the practicePRO program an internationally recognized claims prevention initiative.

Dan is a prolific writer, speaker and blogger on legal malpractice, risk management, legal technology, and law practice management issues. The American Bar Association published The Busy Lawyer’s Guide to Success: Tips to Power Your Practice, a book he co-authored with Reid Trautz. He a past Editor-in-Chief of the ABA’s Law Practice magazine, was Chair of ABA TECHSHOW 2007 and helped launch the ABA's Law Practice Today Webzine.

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