Tom Spahn Presents Illuminating Legal Limericks

A pre-recorded streaming VIDEO replay of the October 2025 webcast, Tom Spahn Presents Illuminating Legal Limericks.

Join us for this entertaining program that uses limericks to explore ethics issues involved in lawyers’ practice and their firms.

• Unauthorized practice of law and multijurisdictional practice, including the definition of legal practice, temporary and virtual practice and choice of ethics rules
• Law firm creation, including law firm names, hiring, and non-competes
• Law firm operations, including paralegals, trust accounts, fee sharing, and file ownership
• Marketing ethics, including content limitations, and marketing intrusiveness

Thomas E. Spahn, McGuireWoods LLP / Tysons

Thomas E. Spahn practices as a commercial litigator with McGuireWoods in Tysons, Virginia. He was selected as the 2013 and 2020 metro-Washington, DC “Lawyer of the Year” for “Bet the Company Litigation” by The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White, Inc.). He has served on the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility and is a member of the American Law Institute and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He is a Fellow of the Virginia Law Foundation. Mr. Spahn has written extensively on attorney-client privilege (including the Virginia CLE^® publications The Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work Product Doctrine: A Practitioner’s Guide and A Virginia-Specific Summary Guide: The Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work Product Doctrine), ethics, and other topics, and has spoken at more than 1,400 CLE programs throughout the U.S. and in several foreign countries. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale University and received his J.D. from Yale Law School.