Why Attend?
The duty of confidentiality is one of the broadest and strongest of all ethical duties. Can you answer these questions?
- What do you do if your client intends to testify falsely?
- How sure do you have to be regarding your client’s intent?
- Is there a different standard if the client intends to commit fraud on the tribunal?
- What should you do if your client intends to commit some other crime? Does it matter what the crime is?
In this informative and entertaining interactive program, nationally known ethics expert Tom Spahn uses hypotheticals to explore lawyers’ confidentiality and disclosure duties in the context of clients’ intent to commit future misconduct. Among other things, the program will address:
- The difficulty of distinguishing between past and future misconduct
- Clients’ intent to offer false testimony
- Providing advice on client conduct illegal under federal law but allowed under state law
- Applying the attorney-client privilege “crime-fraud exception”
- Clients’ intent to commit future misconduct that will cause financial injury, or someone’s bodily harm or death
This is the sixth of a multi-part seminar on all aspects of confidentiality. Previous parts still available for purchase on demand as online seminars include Tom Spahn on Confidentiality: Non-Clients' Misunderstandings and Mistakes, Tom Spahn on Confidentiality: Non-Clients’ Misconduct, and Tom Spahn on Confidentiality: Clients’ Past and Ongoing Misconduct.
| Registration Deadlines: |
| Webcast: |
10 minutes prior to seminar. If you register for a webcast the day of the seminar, your e-mail receipt will include a link to launch the seminar and download the materials. |
| Telephone: |
Online registration ends at 11:59 p.m. the day preceding the seminar
Call (800) 979-8253 to register up to one hour prior to the seminar |
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.
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.
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