Tom Spahn Presents Illuminating Legal Limericks: Ethics for Legal Practice and Law Firms

Why Attend?

• Satisfy your ethics requirement in an entertaining and interactive format.
• Explore ethics considerations in law firm operations.
• Understand the ethics involved in marketing your firm or services.

Join us for this interactive and entertaining program that uses limericks (the last word of which the audience will have to guess) to explore ethics issues involved in lawyers’ practice and their firms. The program will address:

• Unauthorized practice of law and multijurisdictional practice, including the definition of legal practice, temporary and virtual practice, and choice of ethics rules
• Law firm creation, including law firm names, hiring, and non-competes
• Law firm operations, including paralegals, trust accounts, fee sharing, and file ownership
• Marketing ethics, including content limitations, and marketing intrusiveness

Registration Deadlines:

Cancellation Policy: Cancellation/transfer requests will be honored until 5:00 p.m. the day preceding the seminar. You will, however, be charged $40 if you cancel or transfer your registration to a different seminar after the link to the materials has been e-mailed by Virginia CLE^®.

Full refunds or transfers are available up to two days after a webcast in the unlikely event that you experience technical difficulties.

Dietary Restrictions: If you have dietary restrictions and are attending the seminar in person, please email deanna.mcglothlin@vacle.org.

Inclement Weather Policy and Updates

MCLE Credit Caveat: The MCLE Board measures credits by the time you spend in attendance. If you enter a 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.

Private recording of this program is prohibited.

Can’t Attend?

E-mail distance_ed@vacle.org to be notified when/if this program is made available as an online or USB seminar.
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Course Schedule

• Q&A will be handled via chat room for Webcast attendees.
• Q&A will be handled via e-mail for telephone seminar attendees.

About the Speaker

Thomas E. Spahn, McGuireWoods LLP / Tysons

Thomas E. Spahn practices as a commercial litigator with McGuireWoods in Tysons, Virginia. He was selected as the 2013 and 2020 metro-Washington, DC “Lawyer of the Year” for “Bet the Company Litigation” by The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White, Inc.). He has served on the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility and is a member of the American Law Institute and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He is a Fellow of the Virginia Law Foundation. Mr. Spahn has written extensively on attorney-client privilege (including the Virginia CLE^® publications The Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work Product Doctrine: A Practitioner’s Guide and A Virginia-Specific Summary Guide: The Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work Product Doctrine), ethics, and other topics, and has spoken at more than 1,400 CLE programs throughout the U.S. and in several foreign countries. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale University and received his J.D. from Yale Law School.