2023 Ethics in Civil Litigation Update, Part 2

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COURSE INFO

  • Available Until 6/9/2025
  • Next Class Time 1:00 PM ET
  • Duration 60 min.
  • Format MP3 Download
  • Program Code 06082023
  • MCLE Credits 1 hour(s)


Course Price: $65.00
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COURSE DESCRIPTION

This annual ethics update will cover a wide range of ethical developments important to your civil litigation practice.  The program will provide detailed coverage of developments in conflicts of interest in litigation, confidentiality and the attorney-client privilege, and drafting and negotiating settlement agreements.  The program will feature its annual tour of the waterfront of technology issues in litigation practice.  Please join for this annual program which will provide you with a lively discussion of ethical developments important to civil litigation practice. 

 

Day 1:

  • Ethics and technology in law practice review
  • Ethics and settlement agreements
  • Recent developments in conflicts of interest, part 1

 

Day 2:

  • Ethics, evidence and witnesses
  • Developments in confidentiality and preserving the attorney-client privilege
  • Recent developments in conflicts of interest, part 2

 

Speakers:

Thomas E. Spahn is a partner in the McLean, Virginia office of McGuireWoods, LLP, where he has a substantial practice advising clients on properly creating and preserving the attorney-client privilege and work product protections.  For more than 30 years he has lectured extensively on legal ethics and professionalism and has written “The Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work Product Doctrine: A Practitioner’s Guide,” a 750 page treatise published by the Virginia Law Foundation.  Mr. Spahn has served as a member of the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility and as a member of the Virginia State Bar's Legal Ethics Committee.