A pre-recorded streaming video replay from the October 2017 webcast, Tom Spahn on Confidentiality: Non-clients' Misconduct.
Why Attend?
The duty of confidentiality is one of the broadest and strongest of all ethical duties. Can you answer these questions?
- Are you potentially subject to the disciplinary authority of state bars other than Virginia?
- Must you report, can you report, or must you not report the misconduct of:
- Employees of a corporate client?
- Third-party witnesses?
- Jurors?
- Other lawyers?
This two-hour interactive program will continue the exploration one of our profession's core duties—maintaining client confidences. Specifically, the program will explore lawyers’ confidentiality and disclosure duties in the context of non-clients’ misconduct. Using hypotheticals the program will address, among other things: determining what state’s ethics rules apply; lawyers’ possible duty to disclose non-clients’ felonies or child abuse; corporate lawyers’ “reporting up” employee misconduct; friendly and adverse non-clients’ false testimony; lawyers’ duty to report other lawyers’ misconduct (including lawyers subject to the duty, whom they must report, the reporting duty’s standards and timing, and the role of lawyers’ confidentiality duty).
Tom Spahn’s reputation as the expert on ethics is well deserved. What isn’t as evident from his résumé is how good he is as a lecturer: enlightening and engaging, yet always focused on relevant, real-world problems and their solutions.
If you’re a “regular” at Tom’s seminars, you’ll not want to miss this offering. If you haven’t attended his seminars before, join us to see what you have been missing.
This is a session of a multi-part seminar on all aspects of confidentiality, though attendance at a previous installment is not a requisite. Previous parts Tom Spahn on Confidentiality: Exceptions to the Duty, and Tom Spahn on Confidentiality: Non-Clients' Misunderstandings and Mistakes are available as online seminars. Look for the next installment in 2018.