Why Attend?
Whether corporate or outside counsel, business lawyers face ethical issues unique to their practice.??
A lawyer is sitting in on a client?s negotiation when she hears the client make a misrepresentation.? The lawyer privately admonishes the client to set the record straight.? The client refuses.? What should the lawyer do?? What must the lawyer do?? What if the lawyer is in-house counsel?
A client tells its lawyer that?its business is failing and that it will seek bankruptcy protection.? The lawyer and his family hold shares of the client.??may the lawyer sell?? may the lawyer tell?his family to sell? ?What if the company seeking bankruptcy protection is not a client, but a company with whom the lawyer?s client does business?
A lawyer licensed in State A makes several lengthy trips to State B to negotiate a number of loosely related corporate transactions.? Is this enough to?constitute the unauthorized practice of law in State B?? What is required and how do states differ?
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What You Will Learn
The?ethics rules apply equally to all lawyers.? but transactional practice is different from litigation practice, and the ethical issues faced by business lawyers often arise under different circumstances and require different solutions.?
In this 60-minute seminar, updated for 2010, nationally recognized ethics speakers Michael Downey and William Freivogel explore three distinct areas where thorny ethical issues commonly confront business lawyers: confidentiality, negotiation ethics, and multijurisdictional practice.
Confidentiality concerns in a transactional practice, particularly when providing services to multiple corporations or corporations and their owners or employees
Confidentiality and privilege concerns when dealing with business consultants and auditors
Disclosing wrongful conduct of corporate insiders
Candor in business negotiations
Limits on cross-border business transactions
In-house counsel registration and cross-border counseling
This interactive seminar gives you the opportunity to submit your questions before and during the program for discussion by the faculty.? in addition, all registrants receive a set of downloadable course materials and free access to the archived online program later.?
Need ethics credit?? This seminar qualifies for 1.0 to 1.2 ethics credit hours, depending on state requirements, in MCLE jurisdictions that accredit live telephone seminars and/or webcasts.
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Faculty
Michael P. Downey is a partner in the national legal ethics practice group at Hinshaw and Culbertson LLP, where his practice focuses on advising and representing lawyers, accountants, and their firms on legal, ethics, discipline, risk management, and related business and professional issues. Mr. Downey also teaches legal ethics and law firm practice as an adjunct professor at Washington University and St. Louis University. He has served on and led numerous bar committees, including chairing the ABA?s Ethics & Technology Committee and the Illinois State Bar Association?s Standing Committee on Professional Conduct. Mr. Downey has presented more than 200 times and published more than 40 articles on professional ethics. He has also been interviewed on professional ethics numerous times, including appearing on the front page of the New York Times and on NPR?s Talk of the Nation. Mr. Downey?s first book, Introduction to Law Firm Practice, should be released in early 2010.
William Freivogel is the Principal of Freivogel Ethics Consulting in Chicago and formerly Senior Vice President ? Loss Prevention of Aon Risk Services, inc., where he was responsible for providing professional responsibility advice and risk management services to his company?s law firm clients. Mr. Freivogel was a trial lawyer for 23 years and since 1987 has concentrated on legal ethics, lawyer malpractice, and related disciplines.? He served on the American Law Institute?s Members? Consultative Group for the Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers and as a member of the Advisory Council to the American Bar Association?s Ethics 2000 Commission.?He is currently Chair of the ABA Business Law Section?s Professional Responsibility Committee and a member of the ABA/BNA Lawyers? Manual on Professional Conduct Editorial Board. Mr. Freivogel writes and speaks extensively in the areas of legal ethics and loss prevention, and is the author of Freivogel on Conflicts, a comprehensive online guide to conflicts of interest.
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Special Book Offer: Register for the live webcast Ethics for the Business Lawyer and get the new ALI-ABA text Red Flags: A Lawyer?s Handbook on Legal Ethics, second Edition for only $64.50 (a 50% savings)! Total price for webcast and book: $213.50 ADD TO CART Register for the live telephone seminar Ethics for the Business Lawyer and get the new ALI-ABA text Red Flags: A Lawyer?s Handbook on Legal Ethics, second Edition for only $64.50 (a 50% savings)! Total price for telephone seminar and book: $213.50 ADD TO CART
Total 60-minute hours of instruction: 1.0 ethics; Total 50-minute hours: 1.2 ethics
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Times
Eastern 1:00 p.m. ? 2:00 p.m. Central 12:00 p.m. ? 1:00 p.m. Mountain 11:00 a.m. ? 12:00 p.m. Pacific & Arizona 10:00 a.m. ? 11:00 a.m. Alaska 9:00 a.m. ? 10:00 a.m. Hawaii 7:00 a.m. ? 8:00 a.m.
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Ethics for the Business Lawyer: Confidentiality, Negotiation Ethics and Multijurisdictional Practice ? CLE, Continuing Legal Education ? ALI-ABA.org
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