2-Hour Program

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Overview

Ethics in Banking and Financial Services 2023

Why You Should Attend

Tailored to focus on what is happening today in banking and financial services, this half-day program will take an in-depth look at the prevalent legal ethics issues attorneys of all experience levels encounter. Our faculty of experts come from diverse positions in the industry, and will share from their experience to illustrate common areas of potential ethical risk when working with clients in banking and financial services. 

Upon completing this program, attendees will be able to confidently and professionally handle attorney-client privilege and confidentiality issues, be better prepared for civil and regulatory liability exposure commonly confronted by attorneys, and will become knowledgable about how to avoid multiple representation pitfalls, and more. Attendees will hear real world scenarios and will gain the tangible skills attorneys need to have when handling legal ethics issues. This program is essential viewing to stay up to date on how to avoid ethical traps as an attorney in 2022, and what you should do when you can't. 

What You Will Learn

  • Legal ethics rules that apply to issues involving conflicts of interest, multiple representations, and “no contact” rules.
    The confidentiality and attorney-client privilege issues that arise when representing banking and financial services clients.
    How to handle internal investigation matters and the ethical pitfalls therein.  
    Can you be exposed to civil and regulatory liability as an attorney? 

Special Feature

Earn 2 hours of ethics credit.

Who Should Attend

All attorneys in banking and financial services. 

Program Level: Overview 

Prerequisites: None

Advanced Preparation: None

Intended Audience: All attorneys in banking and financial services.



Lecture Topics [Total time 00:02:30]

Segments with an asterisk (*) are available only with the purchase of the entire program.


  • Opening Remarks* [00:05:50]
    C. Evan Stewart
  • Ethics in Banking and Financial Services [02:20:55]
    C. Evan Stewart, Charles C. Platt, Michael J. Dell, James J. Benjamin, Jr.

The purchase price of this Web Program includes the following articles from the Course Handbook available online:


  • Complete Course Handbook
  • New York Rules of Professional Conduct (Effective January 1, 2017)
  • Conflicts of Interest (June 2023)
    Ellen L. Hayes
  • Selected Conflicts of Interest Ethics Opinions
    Ellen L. Hayes
  • Selected Conflicts of Interest Cases
    Ellen L. Hayes
  • Winston M. Paes and Stephen Petraeus, Attorney Communications with Dual Purpose Can Still Be Protected, Bloomberg Law News (January 26, 2023)
    Winston M. Paes
  • Order, In re Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc., 756 F.3d 754 (D.C. Cir. 2014)
    Winston M. Paes
  • Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, The Debrief, High Court Provides Reminders on Inadvertent Waivers of Privilege and the Independence of Experts (November 2, 2022)
    Winston M. Paes
  • Bruce E. Yannett and David Sarratt, Beginning an Internal Investigation: The US Perspective, Global Investigations Review (January 4, 2023)
    Winston M. Paes
  • Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, FCPA Update, Vol. 14, No. 2, Privilege and Cooperation: A Difficult Balance (September 2022)
    Winston M. Paes
  • Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, Debevoise Update, Admissibility of Privileged Documents Lawfully Disclosed by Third Parties in Foreign Proceedings (April 21, 2022)
    Winston M. Paes
  • Much Ado About Nothing: Flirting with Changing the World’s Oldest Privilege
    C. Evan Stewart
  • Born under a Bad Sign? Maybe Yes, Maybe No, NY Business Law Journal, Vol. 26, No. 2 (2022)
    C. Evan Stewart
  • Ethical Issues and Traps for Unwary Multijurisdictional Lawyers, PLI Chronicle (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 Liability: In the Cross-Hairs, Again!
    C. Evan Stewart
  • Lawyers as Rats: An Evolving Paradigm?, NY Business Law Journal, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Winter 2018)
    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
  • D.C. Circuit: Wrong and Wronger!, NY Business Law Journal, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Winter 2015)
    C. Evan Stewart
  • Ethical Considerations in the Representation of Multiple Clients (June 10, 2022)
    Michael J. Dell
  • Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work Product Doctrine in Internal and Government Investigations (Outline) (Updated June 2022)
    James J. Benjamin

Presentation Material


  • Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work Product Doctrine in Internal and Government Investigations
    James J. Benjamin, Jr.
  • Ethical Issues Arising From Non-Lawyer Ownership, Access to Capital, and Data Analytics
    Charles C. Platt

Why You Should Attend

Tailored to focus on what is happening today in banking and financial services, this half-day program will take an in-depth look at the prevalent legal ethics issues attorneys of all experience levels encounter. Our faculty of experts come from diverse positions in the industry, and will share from their experience to illustrate common areas of potential ethical risk when working with clients in banking and financial services. 

Upon completing this program, attendees will be able to confidently and professionally handle attorney-client privilege and confidentiality issues, be better prepared for civil and regulatory liability exposure commonly confronted by attorneys, and will become knowledgable about how to avoid multiple representation pitfalls, and more. Attendees will hear real world scenarios and will gain the tangible skills attorneys need to have when handling legal ethics issues. This program is essential viewing to stay up to date on how to avoid ethical traps as an attorney in 2022, and what you should do when you can't. 

What You Will Learn

  • Legal ethics rules that apply to issues involving conflicts of interest, multiple representations, and “no contact” rules.
    The confidentiality and attorney-client privilege issues that arise when representing banking and financial services clients.
    How to handle internal investigation matters and the ethical pitfalls therein.  
    Can you be exposed to civil and regulatory liability as an attorney? 

Special Feature

Earn 2 hours of ethics credit.

Who Should Attend

All attorneys in banking and financial services. 

Program Level: Overview 

Prerequisites: None

Advanced Preparation: None

Intended Audience: All attorneys in banking and financial services.

Credit Details