Why Attend?
- Explore ethical duties regarding electronic communications throughout the lifespan of an attorney-client relationship
- Understand how to ethically deal with third parties
- Examine potential issues with communications involving jurors or judges
This interactive program uses hypotheticals to highlight the dramatic effect email, texts, and other electronic communications have had on lawyers’ ethics duties. The program follows the lifespan of an attorney-client relationship.
Covered topics include:
- The creation of the relationship including the effect of an unsolicited email from a would-be client
- The ethical propriety of electronic communications with clients
- Communications with adversaries including “reply all” emails, lawyers’ responses to inadvertently transmitted communications, and metadata
- Dealing with third parties such as service providers and outsourced colleagues
- Discovery including accessing adverse witnesses’ social media
- Jurors’ research and communications
- Judges’ research and “friending” of lawyers
- Attorney-client relationship termination
- Electronic marketing efforts seeking new attorney relationships
ATTENDING IN PERSON ON SEPTEMBER 14?
The Bobzien-Gaither Education Center in Richmond/Innsbrook is our new state-of-the-art facility designed with your safety in mind. It features a Centurion air filtration system, which quickly and effectively eliminates viruses and bacteria. Additionally, the facility is thoroughly cleaned before each seminar, and face masks and hand sanitizer will be available.
COVID-19 POLICY FOR LIVE-ON-SITE ATTENDANCE
By attending a live-on-site Virginia CLE® seminar, you acknowledge the health risks associated with COVID-19 and that you MUST follow all Virginia CLE® COVID-19 policies. You may NOT attend a live-on-site program if you have tested positive for COVID-19, if you are experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, or if you are under any self-quarantine orders per CDC guidelines.
| 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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