Ethics in Estate Planning, Probate, and Trust Administration
A live 90-minute CLE video webinar with interactive Q&A
This CLE webinar will discuss critical issues relating to legal ethics in estate planning, probate, and administration. The panel will explore applicable rules and provide attorneys a deeper understanding of key ethical challenges in estate planning and probate law as well as provide practical tools for navigating these issues in their practice.
Outline
- Sources of ethical guidance and rules
- Common ethical issues in estate planning and probate
- Determining who is the client
- Joint representation
- Client communications and confidentiality issues
- Conflicts of interest
- Diminished capacity and competency
- Other issues
- Best practices for counsel
Benefits
The panel will discuss these and other key issues:
- Guidance from Model Rules and navigating ethical issues in an estate planning practice
- Determining who the client is and establishing an attorney-client relationship
- The ethical concerns probate attorneys often face
- Understanding the ethical risks associated with attorneys acting as fiduciaries
- Handling confidentiality issues and conflicts of interest
Faculty

Kenneth J. Fair
Partner
Wright Close & Barger
Mr. Fair's practice focuses on in the area of general commercial litigation, with an emphasis on complex probate,... | Read More
Mr. Fair's practice focuses on in the area of general commercial litigation, with an emphasis on complex probate, trust, and fiduciary litigation. He represents executors, trustees, and beneficiaries in will contests, disputes over will and trust interpretation, removal actions, and fiduciary-liability actions. He has written and presented on trust, probate and guardianship issues.
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David Fowler Johnson
Managing Shareholder/Fort Worth Office
Winstead
Mr. Johnson is widely recognized as one of the go-to fiduciary litigators in Texas. His practice focuses on trust,... | Read More
Mr. Johnson is widely recognized as one of the go-to fiduciary litigators in Texas. His practice focuses on trust, estate, and closely-held business disputes. A frequent writer and speaker, David is known around the state as a thought leader in the fiduciary area. Mr. Johnson’s experience in trust and estate disputes includes will contests, elder abuse, mental competency, undue influence, trust modification/reformation/clarification, breach of fiduciary duty and related claims. Additionally, he has a transactional practice for trust departments in providing legal opinions on the construction of trust documents, documenting release and consent agreements, resignations, successor appointments, modification of trusts, trust mergers, trust severances, etc.
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