Suggested Audience
Attorneys, Mediators, Employers
Moderator
- Cheryl Ploeger, Workers’ Compensation Mediation Specialist, BWC
Presenters
- Hon. Allen Phillips, Judge, Court of Workers’ Compensation Claims
- Hon. Thomas Wyatt, Judge, Court of Workers’ Compensation Claims
Panelists
- Nicole Billings, Mediation Specialist, Chattanooga
- Elizabeth Covington, Ph.D.
- Danny Brandon, Mediation Specialist, Jackson
- Eric Fenstemaker, Ph.D., Program Coordinator, Knoxville
- Madeline Shelly, Mediation Specialist, Knoxville
Session Description
The second legal ethics session is built around video-recorded interviews of non-lawyers asked to give answers about whether lawyers or judges can engage in specific conduct. The video presentation will be stopped after each set of responses to allow for (1) audience participation, (2) consideration of the responses, and (3) consideration of the ethical provisions governing the issues raised by each fact situation. Subjects to be discussed include:
- The use of false information during settlement negotiations
- Representing two clients in the same litigation
- A lawyer’s use of personal philosophies to argue a claim
- Gifts to a judge and/or the judge’s staff
- Delaying a claim to obtain a tactical advantage
- Offering not to report illegal activity if the adverse party offers a favorable settlement
- Consideration of ex parte communications after the closure of proof in a claim
- Directly contacting parties to litigation through other persons
- Personal investigation of facts by a judge
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