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.

• Online CLE

  TLIE offers an online classroom CLE through TexasBarCLE.com entitled The Nature of Legal Malpractice Claims and How to Avoid Them (Course #901204448 ) 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 to view description of the 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