Confidentiality: Non-Clients' Misunderstanding and Mistakes (2022 Association Annual Meeting CLE)
2:25 Welcome and Introductions
2:30 Confidentiality: Non-Clients' Misunderstanding and Mistakes*
Thomas E. Spahn, McGuireWoods LLP, Tysons, VA
This interactive program uses hypotheticals to explore lawyers' confidentiality and disclosure duties in the context of non-clients' misunderstanding and mistakes. Among other things, the program addresses the difference between ethics and professionalism, dealing with unrepresented persons who may misunderstand a lawyer's role, negotiation ethics (including adversaries' factual or legal misunderstanding, substantive mistakes or scrivener's errors) and litigators' disclosure duties in the face of litigation adversaries' or courts' misunderstanding, mistakes, or scrivener's errors.
This interactive program uses hypotheticals to explore lawyers' confidentiality and disclosure duties in the context of non-clients' misunderstanding and mistakes.
Contributors
Thomas E. Spahn
Thomas E. Spahn is a partner in the McLean, Virginia office of McGuireWoods, LLP, where he has a broad complex commercial, business and securities litigation practice. He also has a substantial practice advising businesses on properly creating and preserving the attorney-client privilege and work product protections. For more than 20 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 member of the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility and as a member of the Virginia State Bar's Legal Ethics Committee. He received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Yale University and his J.D. from Yale Law School