Original Seminar Course Length: 3.5 Hours
Cost:
Member $0.00
Non-Member $225.00
About the Program:
A panel with extensive experience advising attorneys on their ethical obligations will present on some of the tough questions facing attorneys today in a variety of practice circumstances. Using a series of real-life problems that cut across several areas of ethics and the intersection of ethics and other law, the panelists will attempt to give attendees some guidance beyond that found in most ethics seminars. Time will also be set aside to discuss interesting ethics issues presented by the audience.
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Information contained in this audio/video complimentary on-demand product may be outdated and may not meet the criteria for CLE credit. Accordingly, the CBA is not automatically certifying any Connecticut or New York CLE credits for this complimentary on-demand product. CBA members who view/listen to this complimentary on-demand product may claim Connecticut CLE credit on their own as self-study if they determine that the information provided by the on-demand product is timely and relevant and otherwise meets the criteria in CT MCLE rule 2-27A.
Seminar Code: EPE160330
Original Program Date: March 30, 2016
Who Should Attend:
Any attorney who wants to keep current on how to avoid ethical and legal violations in a changing and challenging legal environment.
You Will Learn:
- About your obligations to your clients and to yourself regarding contraband, witnesses, destruction of evidence, and information that a client may intend to commit a crime.
- A lawyer’s duties upon receiving a subpoena concerning a former client seeking the client’s file.
- About representing clients with impaired capacity, especially if the client evinces an intention to make an ill-considered decision that may have serious consequences.
- When a client stops being a present client for conflict of interest considerations, duties to former clients, what conflicts are not waivable, and the efficacy of advance waivers.
- How to deal with conflicts when representing a corporate officer and the corporation in a shareholder derivative action. Duties to members of closely-held LLC’s. What you can and cannot do with regard to representing one member of an LLC and the entity against another member.
- Developing law on attorney whistleblower obligations and protections and the ability of an attorney to be a qui tam relator or a reporting witness under similar regimes. The ability and challenges of lawyers to prosecute or defend employment disputes involving their work as a lawyer. Is the rule of confidentiality a tool an employer can use to defeat such cases?
Speakers:
David P. Atkins, Pullman & Comley LLC, Bridgeport
Stephen J. Conover, Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey LLP, Stamford
Mark A. Dubois, Geraghty & Bonnano, New London
Patricia King, Geraghty & Bonnano, New London
Brendon P. Levesque, Horton Shields & Knox PC, Hartford
Marcy T. Stovall, Pullman & Comley LLC, Bridgeport
James F. Sullivan, Howard Kohn Sprague & FitzGerald LLP, Hartford