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Overview
Why You Should Attend
Ethics for Commercial Litigators reviews the most complex ethics issues and relevant case law arising out of commercial litigation. Our experienced faculty will address the latest legal ethics developments in multiple representations, client confidentiality, privilege, the work-product doctrine and waivers, among other important subjects. This program continues to deliver key takeaways that litigators and allied professionals at all experience levels will benefit from learning.
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”
• Ethical issues posed by witness preparation
• Risks to lawyers arising from parallel investigations
- Risks to lawyers (and clients) when lawyers become directors of public companies
• Current ethical issues in electronic discovery
Special Features
Earn two Ethics credits
Who Should Attend
This program will deliver key takeaways that litigators and allied professionals at all experience levels will benefit from learning.
Prerequisites: This program will deliver key takeaways that litigators and allied professionals at all experience levels will benefit from learning.
Intended Audience: This program will deliver key takeaways that litigators and allied professionals at all experience levels will benefit from learning.
Advanded Prep: None
Lecture Topics [Total time 00:02:10]
Segments with an asterisk (*) are available only with the purchase of the entire program.
- Opening Remarks* [00:01:56]
C. Evan Stewart - Ethics for Commercial Litigators [02:05:43]
C. Evan Stewart, Arian M. June, Susan J. Kohlmann, Michael J. Dell
The purchase price of this Web Program includes the following articles from the Course Handbook available online:
- Complete Course Handbook
- Rules of Professional Conduct, New York State Unified Court System, Part 1200 (January 1, 2017)
David M. Rabinowitz,C. Evan Stewart,Andrew M. Lawrence,Karen M. Griffin,David D Sarratt - Basic Ethics for the Negotiating Lawyer
David Rabinowitz - Ethical Issues and Traps for Unwary Multijurisdictional Lawyers, PLI Chronicle: Insights and Perspectives for the Legal Community (May 2021)
C. Evan Stewart - How Sausage is Made: The Latest Judicial Takes on Privilege and Work Product, NY Business Law Journal, Vol. 25, No. 1 (2021)
C. Evan Stewart - Lawyer-Directors: Just a Bad Idea (Part II), NY Business Law Journal, Vol. 25, No. 2 (2021)
C. Evan Stewart - Lawyer Liability: In the Crosshairs, Again!, NY Business Law Journal, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Summer 2020)
C. Evan Stewart - Mom (as Always) Was Right: Don’t Talk to Strangers, NY Business Law Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Summer 2018)
C. Evan Stewart - Mad Dogs and Englishmen: Part Deux, NY Business Law Journal, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Winter 2017)
C. Evan Stewart - The D.C. Circuit: Wrong and Wronger!, NY Business Law Journal, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Winter 2015)
C. Evan Stewart - The New York Court of Appeals Takes the Wrong Fork in the Road on the Common Interest Privilege NY Business Law Journal, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Winter 2016)
C. Evan Stewart - Finder’s Keepers, Losers Weepers?, NY Business Law Journal, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Summer 2016)
C. Evan Stewart - Caveat Corporate Litigator: The First Circuit Sets Back the Attorney Work Product Doctrine, NY Business Law Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Summer 2010)
C. Evan Stewart - Thus Spake Zarathustra (And Other Cautionary Tales for Lawyers), NY Business Law Journal, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Winter 2010)
C. Evan Stewart - Lawyers and the Border Patrol: The Challenges of Multi-Jurisdictional Practice, NY Business Law Journal, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Summer 2011)
C. Evan Stewart - A Tale of Two Judges, NY Business Law Journal, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Summer 2012)
C. Evan Stewart - Good Golly Miss Molly! The Attorney Work Product Doctrine Takes Another Hit, NY Business Law Journal, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Winter 2012)
C. Evan Stewart - Mad Dogs and Englishmen, NY Business Law Journal, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Summer 2013)
C. Evan Stewart - The End of Conflicts of Interest?: Courts Warm Up to Advance Waivers, NY Business Law Journal, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Winter 2013)
C. Evan Stewart - “Positively 4th Street”: Lawyers and the “Scripting” of Witnesses, NY Business Law Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Summer 2014)
C. Evan Stewart - Pigs Get Fat, Hogs Get Slaughtered: Keeping Lawyers Out of the Slaughterhouse, NY Business Law Journal, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Summer 2015)
C. Evan Stewart - Squaring the Circle: Can Bad Legal Precedent Just Be Wished Away?, NY Business Law Journal, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Winter 2014)
C. Evan Stewart - Exes and the Attorney-Client Privilege, NY Business Law Journal, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Summer 2017)
C. Evan Stewart - Lawyers as Rats: An Evolving Paradigm?, NY Business Law Journal, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Winter 2018)
C. Evan Stewart - “New York Lawyers: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid…!” NY Business Law Journal, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Summer 2019)
C. Evan Stewart - Ethics for Municipal Lawyers (May 2021)
Karen Griffin - Ethics for Municipal Lawyers (May 2020)
Karen Griffin - The Association of the Bar of the City of New York Committee on Professional Ethics, Formal Opinion 2004-3: Government Lawyer Conflicts: Representing a Government Agency and Its Constituents (March 2, 2004)
Karen Griffin - Jennifer J. Carlson, Mayer Brown LLP, Ethical Issues in the Corporate Context: Who Is the Client? (July 2021)
David M. Rabinowitz,C. Evan Stewart,Andrew M. Lawrence,Karen M. Griffin,David D Sarratt - Audrey Harris, Matthew Alexander, and Juliet Gunev, Mayer Brown LLP, Addressing Ethics and Compliance Risks in Uncertain Times
David M. Rabinowitz,C. Evan Stewart,Andrew M. Lawrence,Karen M. Griffin,David D Sarratt - Michael J. Dell, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, Ethical Considerations in the Representation of Multiple Clients (August 4, 2021)
David M. Rabinowitz,C. Evan Stewart,Andrew M. Lawrence,Karen M. Griffin,David D Sarratt - Andrew M. Lawrence, Desislava K. Kireva, and Devin J. Benavidez, Appearing and Practicing before the SEC: Ethical Considerations for Corporate Counsel
Andrew M. Lawrence
Presentation Material
- Ethical Limits in Witness Preparation
Susan J. Kohlmann
Ethics for Commercial Litigators reviews the most complex ethics issues and relevant case law arising out of commercial litigation. Our experienced faculty will address the latest legal ethics developments in multiple representations, client confidentiality, privilege, the work-product doctrine and waivers, among other important subjects. This program continues to deliver key takeaways that litigators and allied professionals at all experience levels will benefit from learning.
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”
• Ethical issues posed by witness preparation
• Risks to lawyers arising from parallel investigations
- Risks to lawyers (and clients) when lawyers become directors of public companies
• Current ethical issues in electronic discovery
Special Features
Earn two Ethics credits
Prerequisites: This program will deliver key takeaways that litigators and allied professionals at all experience levels will benefit from learning.
Intended Audience: This program will deliver key takeaways that litigators and allied professionals at all experience levels will benefit from learning.
Advanded Prep: None