Why Attend?
Featuring ethics superstars Ben DiMuro and Tom Spahn
Are you a business lawyer? If so, can you answer these questions?
- Who, or what, is your client in a corporate setting?
- What is your duty to report corporate misconduct?
- What privilege and confidentiality issues are you most likely to face in corporate representation?
- What special challenges face in-house counsel?
Learn the answers to these and other questions, and avoid the consequences of a violation of the rules.
Business lawyers have ethics challenges not faced by family or criminal defense lawyers. In the latter case, it is obvious who the client is: it’s the person sitting across the desk from them. For business lawyers, though, identifying the client isn’t that easy. Is the client the business, the board, the officers, or all of them? Not until you’ve identified the client can you determine the extent of your ethical obligations.
This seminar will help eliminate the confusion. Our two well-known experts—Ben DiMuro and Tom Spahn—will provide you with the practicalities of dealing with the following issues:
- Identifying the “Client” Within the Corporate Entity (especially in a closely held corporation)
- Identifying the “Client” in a Corporate Family
- Implications of Client Identification in Stock and Asset Transactions
- Duty to “Report Up” Corporate Employees’ Misconduct
- The Duty to “Report Out” Corporate Clients’ Misconduct
- Confidentiality/Privilege Risks When Communicating Inside Corporations
- Confidentiality/Privilege Risks When Communicating Outside Corporations
- Internal Corporate Investigations
- In-House Lawyers’ Personal Interests
- Ethics of Hiring Lawyers and Nonlawyers
| 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 |
| Live on Site: |
Online registration ends at 11:59 p.m. the day preceding the seminar
Walk-in registration is permitted on a space-available basis |
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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