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Overview
This program continues to deliver lively analysis of recent legal ethics developments and their related practice pointers for corporate lawyers. Our expert panel will discuss common ethical pitfalls arising out of multijurisdictional practice along with related ethical issues that corporate lawyers often face. The faculty will also address how jurisdictional distinctions regarding an ethics matter can prompt changes in the way counsel approaches that same matter, depending on where he or she practices.
What You Will Learn
• New developments in multijurisdictional practice issues (including the interplay and disparity of various state ethics rules, different enforcement regimes, and U.S. rules vs. international rules)
• Current issues relating to multiple representation
• Recent developments involving conflicts of interest
• Whistleblower remedies for corporate counsel
• Dangers to corporate counsel in civil discovery
• 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, selective waiver, and inadvertent waiver)
• Lawyers’ exposure to civil liability
• Dangers to lawyers who sit as directors of public companies
Earn 2 hours of Ethics credit
Lecture Topics [Total time 00:02:10]
Segments with an asterisk (*) are available only with the purchase of the entire program.
- Opening Remarks* [00:00:26]
C. Evan Stewart - Ethics for Corporate Lawyers: Multijurisdictional Practice and Other Current Issues [02:09:18]
Susan E. Brune, Jennifer Finnegan, C. Evan Stewart, Jonathan K. Youngwood
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)
- 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)
- Audrey Harris, Matthew Alexander, and Juliet Gunev, Mayer Brown LLP, Addressing Ethics and Compliance Risks in Uncertain Times
- Michael J. Dell, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, Ethical Considerations in the Representation of Multiple Clients (August 4, 2021)
- 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 Considerations in Witness Preparation
Jonathan K. Youngwood - Ethics for Corporate Lawyers: Lessons from Cases Relating to Attorney-Client Privilege and Work Product
Jennifer Finnegan - Ethics for Corporate Lawyers: Multijurisdictional Practice and Other Current Issues 2022
Susan E. Brune
This program continues to deliver lively analysis of recent legal ethics developments and their related practice pointers for corporate lawyers. Our expert panel will discuss common ethical pitfalls arising out of multijurisdictional practice along with related ethical issues that corporate lawyers often face. The faculty will also address how jurisdictional distinctions regarding an ethics matter can prompt changes in the way counsel approaches that same matter, depending on where he or she practices.
What You Will Learn
• New developments in multijurisdictional practice issues (including the interplay and disparity of various state ethics rules, different enforcement regimes, and U.S. rules vs. international rules)
• Current issues relating to multiple representation
• Recent developments involving conflicts of interest
• Whistleblower remedies for corporate counsel
• Dangers to corporate counsel in civil discovery
• 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, selective waiver, and inadvertent waiver)
• Lawyers’ exposure to civil liability
• Dangers to lawyers who sit as directors of public companies
Earn 2 hours of Ethics credit