2-Hour Program

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Overview

Why You Should Attend

Our expert faculty understands the complex and often confounding legal ethics considerations that commercial litigators face and they are prepared to share their insights with you.  The faculty will examine recurring ethics issues that commercial litigators must know, as well as where and how jurisdictions diverge on the application of certain ethics rules.  Attendees will get the full picture of how attorneys have dealt with these thorny ethical issues and how lawyers are dealing with them now. 

What You Will Learn

  • Reviewing 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)
  • Current issues relating to multiple representation and conflicts of interest
  • Exploring the dangers to lawyers in the heightened regulatory environment
  • Recent developments impacting the “no-contact” rules and lawyer “dissemblance”
  • Clarifying attorney exposure to civil liability
  • Outlining the risks to lawyers arising from parallel investigations

Who Should Attend

Attorneys engaged in commercial litigation as well as all attorneys interested in learning about the ethical issues in this practice area.

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