2-Hour Program

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Overview

Why You Should Attend

Evolving regulatory and compliance challenges have created an environment with rising potential for ethical pitfalls.  Attorneys involved in commercial litigation should know the latest ethics case law and rules interpretations to avoid costly ethical missteps.  This program will review some of the most impactful developments in many common and not so common areas that have confounded even the most prepared litigators.

What You Will Learn

  • New developments in confidentiality, the attorney-client privilege and the attorney work-product doctrine (including disclosure obligations to third parties, the status of government pressure to waive, congressional legislation, selective waiver and inadvertent waiver)
  • Dangers to lawyers in the heightened regulatory environment
  • Current issues relating to multiple representation and conflicts of interest
  • Attorney exposure to civil liability
  • Whistleblower remedies for lawyers
  • Recent developments impacting the “no-contact” rules and lawyer “dissemblance”
  • Risks to lawyers arising from parallel investigations
  • Current issues in electronic discovery

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