2-Hour Program

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Overview

Why You Should Attend

This program is designed to provide attorneys with an understanding of the lawyer’s ethical duties that arise in the course of discovery, including e-discovery.

What You Will Learn
  • How to navigate the discovery process and ethical obligations
  • Protecting confidential information
  • Ethical obligations in connection with e-discovery
  • Attorney ethical responsibilities and best practices for preservation, collection, review, and production of documents
Who Should Attend

Whether you are new to your career or an experienced attorney, the program will help you analyze your obligations under relevant rules of professional conduct when engaging in the discovery process, and will help both litigators and in-house counsel who have litigation responsibilities understand how to act ethically.

Prerequisites: A familiarity with or interest in the professional responsibilities of lawyers, rules of professional conduct, and civil practice and procedure rules, as well as an interest in litigation or document collection, preservation, review and/or production.

Intended Audience:
Outside attorneys, in-house counsel, and other allied professionals involved in litigation and document collection, preservation, review and/or production.

Other Prerequisite (PLI program, if necessary):
None

Advanced Prep:
None

Lecture Topics [Total time 02:02:57]

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

  • Opening Remarks* [00:02:25]
    Claudia T. Morgan
  • Ethics in Discovery [02:00:30]
    Lan Hoang, Claudia T. Morgan, Blair E. Kaminsky

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, available at http://www.nysba.org/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=50671
    Carole L. Basri,Claudia T. Morgan,Philip N. Yannella,Katie M. Lachter
  • In-House Counsel Ethics (2019)
    Carole L. Basri
  • Isabel C. Franco, International Attorney-Client Privilege, Practising Law Institute, International Corporate Practice: A Practitioner’s Guide to Global Success, Ch. 2 (February 2019)
    Carole L. Basri
  • Carole Basri and Irving Kagan, The Client—Ethical Considerations, Practising Law Institute, Corporate Legal Departments, Ch. 8 (4th Edition) (May 2017)
    Carole L. Basri
  • Carole Basri and Irving Kagan, Confidentiality of Communications, Practising Law Institute, Corporate Legal Departments, Ch. 9 (4th Edition) (May 2017) (Excerpt)
    Carole L. Basri
  • Carole Basri and Irving Kagan, Corporate Compliance Programs, Practising Law Institute, Corporate Legal Departments, Ch. 11 (4th Edition) (October 2016) (Excerpt)
    Carole L. Basri
  • Attorney Conduct “Up the Ladder Reporting” Guidance for Legal Department Attorneys (PowerPoint slides)
    Timothy Heine
  • Ethics and Discovery
    Philip N. Yannella,Andrea L. D'Ambra,Lan Hoang,Claudia T. Morgan
  • Ethics Opinions
    Katie M. Lachter

Presentation Material

  • Ethics in Discovery 2019
    Lan Hoang, Blair E. Kaminsky, Claudia T. Morgan
Why You Should Attend
This program is designed to provide attorneys with an understanding of the lawyer’s ethical duties that arise in the course of discovery, including e-discovery.

What You Will Learn
  • How to navigate the discovery process and ethical obligations
  • Protecting confidential information
  • Ethical obligations in connection with e-discovery
  • Attorney ethical responsibilities and best practices for preservation, collection, review, and production of documents
Who Should Attend
Whether you are new to your career or an experienced attorney, the program will help you analyze your obligations under relevant rules of professional conduct when engaging in the discovery process, and will help both litigators and in-house counsel who have litigation responsibilities understand how to act ethically.

Prerequisites: A familiarity with or interest in the professional responsibilities of lawyers, rules of professional conduct, and civil practice and procedure rules, as well as an interest in litigation or document collection, preservation, review and/or production.
Intended Audience: Outside attorneys, in-house counsel, and other allied professionals involved in litigation and document collection, preservation, review and/or production.
Other Prerequisite (PLI program, if necessary): None
Advanced Prep: None

Credit Details