The Ethics of Dealing with Attorney Departures and Deaths (from Advanced Estate Planning 2015) (Online Seminar)

A pre-recorded streaming VIDEO replay of one session from the May 2015 live seminar, The Douglas W. Conner 36th Annual Advanced Estate Planning and Administration Seminar.

This topic deals with the ethics rules involved in an attorney leaving a firm, a firm hiring an attorney from another firm, and handling an attorney’s practice after the attorney’s death.

FACULTY

Virginia H. Grigg, Christian & Barton, LLP / Richmond

Ms. Grigg is an attorney with Christian & Barton, L.L.P., where her primary area of practice is in trusts and estates.  Ms. Grigg received her B.A., cum laude, from James Madison University and her J.D. from T. C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond. After law school, Ms. Grigg worked for Crestar Bank for eight years in both the trust and estate sections of the trust tax department.  At Christian & Barton, Ms. Grigg focuses on estate planning, wealth preservation techniques, and estate and trust administration.  Ms. Grigg participates in litigation involving estate and trust matters such a will contests, suits for aid and guidance, appointment of guardians and substitution of trustees.  She is a member of the Richmond Bar Association (serves on the Nominations Committee), Virginia Bar Association (serves on the Legislative Committee), the Virginia State Bar, and the Metropolitan Richmond Women's Bar Association.  Ms. Grigg is a member of the Richmond Trust Administrator’s Council and the Estate Planning Council.  Ms. Grigg is a frequent seminar speaker and was named to Virginia Business’s 2011 list of Legal Elite.