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MCLE Credits: 1.0
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Ethics Credits Included: 1.0
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Description
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Register for this course
A LIVE AND INTERACTIVE TELEPHONE SEMINAR FROM VIRGINIA CLE
LIVE (Eastern Time): Thursday, October 7 / 12:00 noon–1:00 p.m.
REPLAY (Eastern Time): Thursday, October 28 / 12:00 noon–1:00
p.m.
Program Level: Basic-Intermediate
COURSE PURPOSE
Acclaimed ethics speaker Tom Spahn presents his "Top 10" list of ethical
traps for the unwary business lawyer. In his entertaining and easy-to-follow
style, Spahn will discuss hidden ethical dangers that put your reputation and
your practice at risk.
Are you completely comfortable with your knowledge of:
1. How to properly identify the "client" in the corporate context?
2. How to properly identify the "client" in other business contexts?
3. The various ethical implications of joint representation?
4. The ethics rules and privilege principles at play when dealing with
corporate employees?
5. The fiduciary exception?
6. How widely you can circulate protected communications within the business
entity client?
7. How widely you can circulate protected communications outside the
business entity client?
8. How careful you need to be when doing business with clients?
9. How and when to define the end of the client relationship?
10. The rules governing adversity to former business clients?
If your answer to any of these questions is anything but an unqualified "yes,"
you are at risk of being in the newspaper for the wrong reason. Let your friends,
clients, and colleagues read about your latest deal- not your disciplinary proceedings.
QUESTION-AND-ANSWER SESSION
At the end of the program, you can push a number on your touch-tone phone and
be placed in a queue for questions. When it’s your turn, you enter the conference
call in a mode that allows your question to be heard by the speakers and the
rest of the telephone audience. The speakers will then discuss the question
with you.
COURSE SCHEDULE
| 12:00 |
Top
10 Ethics Traps for Business Lawyers |
| 12:45 |
Question-and-Answer
Session |
| 1:00 |
Adjourn |
Live 15-Minute Question-and-Answer Period on Both Dates
FACULTY
Thomas E. Spahn, McGuireWoods / McLean
Tom Spahn has practiced as a commercial litigator with McGuireWoods since graduating
magna cum laude from Yale University and receiving his J.D. from Yale Law
School. Among other things, he has tried cases involving James Madison's birthplace
and America's most popular walking path. He has argued on behalf of a Central
Asian republic in a New Delhi, India, Court, and taken depositions in Belfast,
Northern Ireland. In March 2009, he was invited to Reykjavik, Iceland, to discuss
an ethics issue on Iceland's leading news and interview show. Mr. Spahn regularly
advises a number of Fortune 500 companies on issues involving ethics, conflicts
of interest, the attorney-client privilege, and corporate investigations. He has
written several editions of The
Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work Product Doctrine: A Practitioner's Guide
(Virginia CLE 2007 & Supp. 2009). The latest version is 750 pages long, and
is accompanied by a 31,500 page compilation of approximately 18,900 case summaries
(all of which he prepared). He also has written a book on Virginia defamation
law; a book on ethics issues facing Virginia in-house lawyers; two other book
chapters, and over 60 articles in Virginia and national publications. The ABA's
General Practice Section honored his article on "Litigation Ethics in the Modern
Age" as one of the "Best Articles Published by the ABA" in 2004.
REGISTRATION FEE
$89.00 regular registration.
MCLE Credit Caveat: The MCLE Board measures credits by the time you spend
in attendance. If you enter a phone seminar late or leave it early, or both, you
must reflect those adjustments accurately in the credits you report on your credit
reporting form. A code will be given at the end of the seminar, which must
be written on your MCLE form.
Cancellation/transfer
requests will be honored through 2:00 p.m. of the DAY BEFORE the seminar.
Private recording of this program is prohibited.
WHAT REQUIREMENTS ARE THERE FOR A TELEPHONE SEMINAR?
Telephone seminar registrants need a touch-tone phone and Internet access. All
telephone seminar registrations must be received by 2:00 p.m. the day prior to
the program. Telephone seminar registrants should have access to e-mail,
so that a link to the written materials can be sent prior to the program.
Registration closes at 2:00 p.m. of the day PRIOR to
the seminar.
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