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Understand your professional responsibilities
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Protect confidential information
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Recognize and address potential conflicts
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Respond to errors and urgent matters
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Communicate clearly and accurately
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Delegate and escalate appropriately
Are You Prepared for Everyday Ethical Challenges?
Whether you are an attorney making legal decisions or a legal support professional handling everyday tasks, your work carries ethical responsibilities.
This course teaches you how to:
- Understand the distinct responsibilities of attorneys and legal support staff
- Recognize the boundaries between delegated assistance and legal advice
- Protect confidential client and prospective client information
- Identify potential conflicts and respond appropriately within your role
Ethics in Immigration Law
Build the judgment to protect clients, understand your responsibilities, and contribute to a responsible immigration practice.
Built by an Immigration Attorney with 13+ Years of Experience
For attorneys: Reinforce your understanding of supervision, legal judgment, confidentiality, conflicts, and responding to ethical concerns.
For legal support professionals: Learn how to perform delegated tasks responsibly, recognize your role’s boundaries, and bring important questions to the attorney.
What You’ll Master
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Lesson 1: Roles and Responsibilities
Understand the roles of attorneys, DOJ-accredited representatives, paralegals, legal assistants, and intake specialists.
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Lesson 2: Unauthorized Practice of Law
Distinguish legal information from legal advice and understand the limits of legal support roles.
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Lesson 3: Confidentiality
Learn how to protect client and prospective client information when handling documents, communicating with others, and using technology.
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Lesson 4: Honesty and Accuracy
Recognize the importance of verifying facts, reviewing forms, understanding preparer responsibilities, and addressing inaccurate information.
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Lesson 5: Conflicts of Interest
Recognize potential conflicts involving spouses, employers and employees, family members, and former clients.
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Lesson 6: Client Communication
Learn how attorneys and staff can work together to keep clients informed, address questions, and manage expectations without making promises.
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Lesson 7: Diligence and Case Management
Strengthen practices for tracking deadlines, safeguarding original documents and client funds, and handling payments and fees.
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Lesson 8: Immigration Ethics
Explore the additional professional conduct requirements in immigration practice.
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Lesson 9: Summary
Review the course’s key concepts and reinforce how attorneys and legal support professionals can apply them in daily immigration practice.
What Learners Say About Us
I really enjoyed this immigration course. As a beginner, I found the material easy to understand and well organized. The instructor explained the information clearly and gave practical examples that made the topics easier to follow. The course gave me a much better understanding of the immigration process and helped me feel more confident about learning the basics. I would recommend it to anyone who is new to immigration and wants a good starting point.
The content was incredibly valuable, practical, and easy to follow. I'm grateful for the opportunity to learn from someone so experienced and passionate about sharing knowledge.
This course is an excellent opportunity to grow you knowledge and improve your work. The course contains complete and detailed information that is key to growth in the immigration process community.
The courses have greatly helped me start my career in the immigration field as a legal assistant. The explanations are very clear and closely connected to real, day-to-day situations. I will continue using and recommending your platform, it’s truly an example to follow.
This is an informative and detailed video that helped me get a feel for the kinds of specialties within Immigration law, resources for learning more, and responsibilities that I might be most drawn to as a new paralegal. I appreciated this statement, "Immigration Law offers a unique blend of logic, advocacy, and humanity."
I loved it. The information presented is just the right amount without being overwhelming. There's nothing better than a course that gets straight to the point.
What You Receive
- Nine video lessons
- Downloadable written lesson
- ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct reference document
- Ten practical ethical scenarios
- Certificate of completion
Earn 1 CLE Credit from The Florida Bar
This course is approved by The Florida Bar for 1 CLE credit. After receiving your certificate of completion, email [email protected] to request the CLE course code and instructions for reporting your credit.
Earn Your Certificate of Completion
Document your training and demonstrate your commitment to responsible immigration practice.
- Highlight your professional development
- Reinforce your understanding of ethical responsibilities
- Build confidence in recognizing and responding to sensitive situations
- Support a shared understanding of ethics across your legal team
Invest in Your Professional Development
Build the ethical awareness to protect clients and strengthen your practice
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Build the skills to respond responsibly to everyday ethical challenges
- Nine video lessons
- Instruction by an immigration attorney
- Downloadable written lesson
- ABA Model Rules reference document
- Ten practical ethics scenarios
- Certificate of completion
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Annual Subscribers: Earn 1 Florida Bar CLE credit at no additional cost.
Not a member? Free course access; CLE certificate available for a fee.
To request CLE credit after completing the course, email [email protected].