ETHICS UPDATE Red Flags, Client Troubles, and the Ethics of Representation
What You Will Learn
Clients. We can’t practice without them. We are always looking for new ones. Having many is essential to our professional lives.
But they claim we represent them when we least think that is so. They demand loyalty when they show us none. They share confidences that can give us fits. They ask lawyers to go places we dare not tread. They come in the form of corporations and other organizations that create special ethical dilemmas. They contest our fees.
This interactive ethics program will feature a fast-paced, hypothetical-driven roundtable discussion in which we hope to enlist the active participation of our viewers as they tune in across the country, not only to pick up those essential ethics credits, but also to learn to deal with real life ethical challenges.
The program will be of interest to all members of the legal profession, including transactional lawyers, litigators, in-house counsel, public service lawyers, and government lawyers. To enable you to prepare for the program, the scenarios to be discussed are posted on the special ALI-ABA downloads page. Advance submission of questions for the faculty is encouraged to permit their integration into the discussion.
Whether you attend the program at the public viewing site nearest
Planning Chairs
Lawrence J. Fox, Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Philadelphia
Susan R. Martyn, Stoepler Professor of Law and Values, University of Toledo College of Law, Toledo, Ohio
Faculty
Kathleen Clark, Professor of Law, Washington University School of Law, St. Louis
Kenneth C. Frazier, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Merck & Co., Inc., Whitehouse Station, New Jersey
Paula J. Frederick, Deputy General Counsel, State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta
Elaine Johnson James, Edwards & Angell, LLP, West Palm Beach, Florida
Gene E.K. Pratter, U.S. District Judge, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
HYPOTHETICALS AND ISSUES (PREVIEW) A prospective client calls with information another client would love to know. Three people approach you to form a new business venture. During a corporate investigation you learn information that a corporate employee thinks you will keep confidential. Your corporate client tells you it has taken care of what you think is a huge product liability problem. Your client lies during a mediation. A case you have on a contingent fee settles early and for twice what you expected. Your client never wants to be sued by that scoundrel again. EPA investigators are interviewing your client’s employees. Just before trial, your client discovers voluminous back-up tapes which they previously thought were missing.
Program Schedule
Total 60-minute hours of instruction: 60-minute hours, 3.0; 50-minute hours, 3.5
