6-Hour Program

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Overview

Why You Should Attend

PLI’s Illinois Basic Skills for Newly Admitted Attorneys 2016 is designed to help newly admitted attorneys in Illinois meet their first-year Minimum Continuing Legal Education Basic Skills requirements.   An expert faculty of practitioners from a range of practice areas will offer helpful instruction, advice and practice tips in fundamental elements of practice and important areas of professional responsibility.

What You Will Learn

  • Effective communications: working with clients, colleagues, co-counsel and consultants
  • Overview of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (ARDC) of the Supreme Court of Illinois
  • Professionalism, civility, inclusion and resilience in the legal profession
  • Client confidentiality, attorney-client privilege, and work product protections
  • Basic negotiation skills

Who Should Attend

Newly admitted attorneys who need to fulfill their first year MCLE requirements by attending a Basic Skills course of no fewer than six hours will benefit from this course.


Please note: Illinois newly admitted attorneys must view the full on-demand course in order to receive a certificate.

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