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    Professionalism for the Ethical Lawyer (Live Replay from February 14, 2022)

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    Ethics rules, the principles of professionalism, and sanctionable conduct are interrelated.

    Lawyers have a duty to zealously represent their clients, but they do not have a duty to engage in offensive conduct that may be desired by clients. Lawyers have duties of confidentiality and honesty, but those duties do not always require pressing every advantage, such as when the lawyer knows that opposing counsel has made a material drafting error in a transactional document.

    In these and many other scenarios, ethics rules, professionalism, and potentially sanctionable conduct subtly interact.

    This program provides a practical guide to professionalism for the ethical lawyer.

    • Interrelationship of ethics rules, professionalism, and sanctions
    • Zealous representation v. needlessly embarrassing an adversary or third-party
    • Reacting to an adversary's drafting errors in transactional documents
    • Ethics, professionalism, and inadvertent transmission of communications
    • Duty to supervise and train subordinate lawyers and staff, including to ensure courtesy to clients, opposing counsel, and courts
    • Offering candid advice to clients and withdrawal when they demand offensive conduct
    • Avoiding discrimination and bigotry

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    • 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

      Click here for more information about Thomas.

    December 5, 2022
    Mon 1:00 PM EST

    Duration 1H 0M

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