Why Attend?
Every litigator must know these rules.
The attorney-client privilege enjoys a unique status among all legal doctrines. For many reasons, it stands alone as the most important subject that lawyers must understand. By contrast, dramatically different rules control the work product doctrine. Failing to appreciate work product doctrine principles can involve even higher stakes because, by definition, this doctrine involves litigation or anticipated litigation. Most lawyers understand the broad contours of both subjects, but how many appreciate the many complexities of both, including how to assert either in the context of an ongoing dispute?
Tom Spahn is the nation’s foremost expert on the attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine. His 1,531-page book, The Attorney-Client Privilege and The Work Product Doctrine: A Practitioner's Guide (3d edition 2013), is the definitive work on the topic. He also prepared a Virginia-specific guide of only(!) 385 pages, focusing the discussion on how the privilege and doctrine function in Virginia. Both share the same chapter and section numbering scheme, and are supported by his online database of up-to-date cases keyed to each section. As he demonstrates in all of his many lectures on ethics, Tom is an engaging and entertaining speaker. You’ll leave this seminar with a new understanding and appreciation of these important subjects. This seminar should be attended by every attorney—litigator, transactional, and corporate alike.
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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