Tom Spahn on Confidentiality: Key Issues

• Explore key issues involving one of our profession’s core duties—maintaining client confidences.
• Understand the exceptions in confidentiality.
• Explore lawyers’ confidentiality and disclosure duties in the context of some non-clients’ misconduct.

Using hypotheticals in this interactive program, Tom Spahn will explore key issues involving one of our profession’s core duties—maintaining client confidences. He will address, among other things, our confidential duty’s strength, source, timing, and content. He will also cover exceptions: in the context of joint representations; when complying with laws or court orders; when clearing conflicts; when defending from clients’ claims or criticism; and when seeking to collect unpaid fees. Finally, Mr. Spahn will explore lawyers’ confidentiality and disclosure duties in the context of some non-clients’ misconduct, including corporations’ lawyers’ “reporting up” of employee misconduct, and misprision of felonies.

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