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**Live Audio Stream Only
1.0 Ethics credit
This program will cover the following topics:
- Ethical issues when clients use credit cards to pay attorneys’ fees, costs, and retainers
- Passing on credit card processing fees to clients – and related Truth-in-Lending issues and tax penalties
- Ethical issues when credit card companies chargeback funds paid to a lawyer or from a trust account
- Confidentiality when a client has a dispute with his credit card company
- Use of credit cards to fund a retainer and related trust fund accounting issues
- Creditor claims against trust fund accounts
- Leftover client funds and proper trust fund accounting
