TLIE Loss Prevention Programs

Texas Lawyers' Insurance Exchange is committed to helping attorneys avoid legal malpratice claims and grievance complaints. In 1997, TLIE created a Risk Management Department to handle all of our risk management and loss prevention activities, including seminars, newsletters, direct consultations, videotapes and research assistance on risk management issues.

• Newsletters

  TLIE's online newsletter, TLIE Legal Malpractice Advisory, which addresses current legal malpractice and ethics issues and offers practical tips for avoiding claims and grievance complaints. The newsletter emphasizes loss prevention articles, in addition to news of TLIE activities or announcements. TLIE's Director of Risk Management, Jett Hanna, is the editor of the Advisory which has been published since 1982. Click here to receive TLIE's newsletter by email, and click here to access TLIE's searchable database of prior issues of our newsletter.

• Free CLE Online!

  Click here to go to CLEOnline.com. If you have not used the site before, click "New User" at the top of the page and register; Log In if you have used the site previously. Click Register for New Seminar after logging in. Look for the seminar entitled Medicare Secondary Payer Problems for Plaintiff and Defense Attorneys. Check the box just before the title of the seminar. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the Checkout button. In the shopping cart, enter the discount code you obtained above, and continue with the checkout. After completing all or part of the course, you can log hours you have listened on the CLEOnline website and obtain a course certificate for your records. Once you have taken the course, you must enter the course number yourself on your state bar CLE record to obtain credit. Please note that you have take the Medicare Secondary Payer Problems course on your application to receive your discount on your next insurance policy..
  
  To obtain the discount code that lets you take the course for free, please get your policy number and then click here
  
  Click here to go to the CLEOnline seminar list. Look for the seminar entitled Medicare Secondary Payer Problems for Plaintiff and Defense Attorneys. Check the box just before the title of the seminar. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the Checkout button. In the shopping cart, enter the discount code you obtained above, and continue with the checkout. Taking the course may result in a discount on your next insurance policy with TLIE. Discounts do not apply to Basic or Judges policies.

• Online CLE

  TLIE offers an online classroom CLE through TexasBarCLE.com entitled The Ethical Lawyer: Avoiding Malpractice and Honoring the Practice of Law (Course #901241294) which qualifies for 2 hours of MCLE credit, including 2 hours of ethics. You may even be entitled to a discount on your TLIE Regular Policy premium for taking this course. Click here to register »

• Self Audit

  TLIE has published a Self-Audit booklet designed to guide lawyers toward areas for possible reduction in exposure to malpractice claims. TLIE offers the Self-Audit booklet free of charge to all Texas attorneys. Samples of the audit questions can be seen in TLIE newsletter articles on conflicts (http://www.tlie.org/riskmgmt/news/93isu1.htm) and docket control (http://www.tlie.org/riskmgmt/news/94isu1-2.htm. To order your own copy, contact us.

• Seminars

  We also participate in and conduct numerous CLE presentations throughout the year in conjunction with both the State Bar of Texas and local bar associations. TLIE also conducts customized presentations in-house for our insured firms. To arrange for a TLIE speaker for luncheons and seminars, please contact us as far in advance as possible.

We are happy to assist our insureds with specific risk management questions, as well as anyone seeking to broaden their appreciation of legal malpractice and ethics issues. Click here for a list of links to websites that we believe you may find helpful, and here for a bibliography of major legal malpractice and ethics publications.

Current TLIE Newsletter