Tabletop simulations transform legal ethics training from a passive (and boring) CLE into a live-fire exercise. Pressure-test how your lawyers and staff respond to real-time ethical dilemmas to revealing how stress, ambiguity, and urgency can erode judgment. Simulations allow law firms to observe how well your lawyers understand and apply the Rules of Professional Conduct under real world conditions, and how your internal communications, escalation systems, and response planning perform in crisis conditions.
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Lawyers are trained and praised for our zeal. Model Rule 1.3 (Diligence) requires that a lawyer “act with reasonable diligence and promptness in representing a client,” with Comment [1] requiring "zeal in advocacy upon the client's behalf." Yet that duty does not justify unrestrained combativeness, misrepresentation, or disregard for the rights of others. The Preamble to the Model Rules explicitly warns that a lawyer must also be “a public citizen having special responsibility for the quality of justice.” When zeal crosses into misconduct, the consequences can be swift ...
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