Live Webcast on October 6, 2009, 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (P.D.T.)

This is a webcast of the live San Francisco session.

Why You Should Attend

Shrinking budgets and growing demand are causing legal services, pro bono programs and legal clinics to search for more efficient ways to deliver legal assistance to low income litigants. This program is designed not only to provide the technical background to the field, but the practical skills to use limited scope representation in a volunteer lawyer setting. Faculty will describe successful models which they have developed and provide expert advice to program developers, risk managers and legal services providers to expand the nature of the services they offer and stretch program budgets using limited scope.

This program will provide best practices, risk management materials, fee agreements, and other materials, including sample fee agreements, client handouts, and other documents designed to set up a limited scope representation practice from scratch.

Risk managers will learn the benefits of limited scope, and proven methods to avoid risk.

Volunteer lawyers will receive everything they need to take limited scope representation from the volunteer context and turn it into a turn-key profit center in their own practices.

What You Will Learn

* The ethical rules governing limited scope representation
* The special application to pro bono, clinic and legal services programs
* Best practices and practical tools for the safe and effective practice of limited scope in a variety of contexts
* How to utilize limited scope representation to target a pool of potential paying clients who are currently unrepresented
* How to limit risk, including malpractice and insurance coverage issues
* How to identify the cases which lend themselves to limited scope representation
* Which issues and clients are not good candidates for limited scope, and how to identify them at the beginning
* How to market your limited scope practice

Note: although the program is broken into one-hour segments for convenience, it is strongly recommended that you take each segment in sequence and not skip ahead, as they build on each other.

Who Should Attend

* Pro bono recruiters
* Legal Services directors and attorneys
* Directors of "Lawyer for a Day" programs
* Law school clinicians
* Law students
* Members of law firm risk management departments
* Program developers
* Program funders
* Volunteer lawyers who want to develop skills they can take back into their "for profit" practices
* Self help program directors
* New lawyers who would like to get practical experience by volunteering to represent low income clients

Special Bonus to all Registrants

Everyone who registers will receive a link to a complete set of risk management materials, including best practices, four kinds of fee agreements, office forms, client handouts, and other materials designed to make limited scope representation both safe and profitable.

PLI Group Discounts

Groups of 4-14 from the same organization, all registering at the same time, for a PLI program scheduled for presentation at the same site, are entitled to receive a group discount. For further discount information, please contact membership@pli.edu or call (800) 260-4PLI.

To register and for more information, please click here: www.pli.edu/product/webcast_detail.asp