A05 - Hot Topics in Legal Malpractice and More (2025CLC-A05)

Friday, June 13, 2025

9:00 AM to 10:00 AM

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Presented by the CT Bar Institute

About the Program

Through the lens of the more recent caselaw this past year on legal malpractice, as well as the seminal cases, we will have a discussion on what constitutes legal malpractice, standing to bring a legal malpractice claim, common areas of legal malpractice and risk management for practicing lawyers.

You Will Learn

How to avoid legal malpractice

Who Should Attend

Attorneys interested in avoiding malpractice.

Credit

CT: 1.0 CLE Credit (0.5 General; 0.5 Ethics)
NY: 1.0 CLE Credit (0.5 AOP; 0.5 Ethics)

The Connecticut Bar Association/CT Bar Institute is an accredited provider of New York State CLE. This program qualifies for newly admitted and experienced attorneys 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, a fully interactive videoconference, or simultaneous transmission with synchronous interactivity. Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias CLE credits are only available as non-transitional credits. For further information please see the NYCourts.gov page on CLE: http://ww2.nycourts.gov/attorneys/cle/index.shtml. 

Speakers

Jonathan Bechtel1 Jonathan M. Bechtel
Stanfield Bechtel Law PLLC, Middletown

Sandy Stanfield1 Sandra R. Stanfield
Stanfield Bechtel Law PLLC, Middletown