Ethics Acceleration: Keeping Pace With Legal Ethics Change

Time: Thursday, December 27, 2012 from 1:30 pm to 4:45 pm
Description

Credit:  3.0 Ethics Credit Hours

Description: The challenges of new technology, rule changes, foreign practice, public scrutiny, and high-profile cases require lawyers to update their legal ethics knowledge and retrofit their legal ethics assumptions. Ethical principles learned in the past can't be relied upon to provide answers to current dilemmas. Attend this entertaining, new course to hone your ethics skills as we focus on recent legal ethics developments and strategies for dealing with them. Using hypothetical problems based on current cases and developing issues, this fast-moving session will leave you with new tools, sharpened skills and insights about the rapidly changing professional responsibility landscape. Among the issues to be discussed:

New thinking about direct adversity conflicts;

Representing a corporation and board members;

The duty to protect new secrets of former clients;

Waiving privilege;

New pressures for mandatory reporting of ethics violations;

The pre-engagement billing conundrum;

…and more.

Location
D.C. Bar Conference Center
1101 K Street NW
(Nearest Metro Stop: Metro Center 12th Street)
Washington DC 20005
Contact
CLE Program 202-626-3488
Speakers
Jack Marshall, ProEthics Ltd
CLE Credit
Yes
Cost
Administrative Law and Agency Practice Section $89.00
Arts, Entertainment, Media and Sports Law Section $89.00
Corporation, Finance and Securities Law Section $89.00
Courts, Lawyers and the Administration of Justice $89.00
Criminal Law and Individual Rights Section $89.00
D.C. Bar Members $99.00
Family Law Section $89.00
Government Attorneys $109.00
Government Contracts and Litigation Section $89.00
Health Law Section $89.00
Intellectual Property Law Section $89.00
International Law Section $89.00
Labor and Employment Law Section $89.00
Law Practice Management $89.00
Litigation Section $89.00
Others $129.00
Real Estate, Housing and Land Use Section $89.00