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About the Program
This webinar explores the legal and ethical considerations concerning attorneys’ fees for both respondents and claimants
Who Should Purchase
Attorneys who represent claimants and respondents in workers’ compensation claims and related civil claims.
The Connecticut Bar Association/CT Bar Institute is an accredited provider of New York State CLE. This program qualifies for transitional and non-transitional CLE credits.
Attorneys seeking NY CLE credit who have been admitted to the New York State Bar for two years or less must attend the live seminar for skills or ethics credit, or a fully interactive videoconference. Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias CLE credits are only available as non-transitional credits. For further information about transitional and non-transitional courses, please see the NYCourts.gov page on CLE: http://ww2.nycourts.gov/attorneys/cle/index.shtml.
Attorney’s Fees in Workers’ Compensation-EWC211029
Cost -
Member - $70.00
Non-Member - $140.00
Student - $40.00
Program Date - October 29, 2021
Product ID - EWC211029
CLE Credit
CT: 2.25 CLE Credits (Ethics)
NY: 2.5 CLE Credits (Ethics)
This webinar explores the legal and ethical considerations concerning attorneys’ fees for both respondents and claimants
Credit
Ethics and Professionalism:2.25
Description
Presented by the Workers' Compensation Section
You Will Learn
- The statutory, ethical, and judicial constraints and requirements for fee agreements and the collection of legal fees by attorneys from claimants and respondents
- The law regarding resolution of fee disputes between lawyers and their clients, or between successive attorneys for a single client
- About issues for claimants’ and respondents’ attorneys arising out of third-party actions related to workers’ compensation claims
- About attorneys’ fees for undue delay or unreasonable contest About fees from Medicare Set Asides and structured settlements
- About attorneys’ fees and mediations
- About the current Workers’ Compensation Commission’s memorandum regulating fees and whether it should be revised to permit higher fees
Who Should Purchase
Attorneys who represent claimants and respondents in workers’ compensation claims and related civil claims.
Speakers
Hon. Donald Doyle (Ret.) Robert F. Carter
DHD Solutions Litigation Alternatives, Carter & Civitello,
Essex, CT Woodbridge, CT
Meghan Lyon Philip T. Markuszka
Hoekenga Machado & Lyon LLC, Strunk Dodge Aiken Zovas LLC,
New Milford, CT Rocky Hill, CT
Moderator
Steven H. Cousins
Law Offices of Steven H. Cousins,
Monroe, CT
Attorneys seeking NY CLE credit who have been admitted to the New York State Bar for two years or less must attend the live seminar for skills or ethics credit, or a fully interactive videoconference. Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias CLE credits are only available as non-transitional credits. For further information about transitional and non-transitional courses, please see the NYCourts.gov page on CLE: http://ww2.nycourts.gov/attorneys/cle/index.shtml.
Financial hardship information is available upon request.
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