Current Ethical Issues for In-House Counsel & Those Who Advise Them

Monday, June 1, 2015 | 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

• Description
• Faculty
• Agenda
• CLE Credit
• Sponsors

• This ethics program is designed especially for in-house counsel and outside counsel advising their in-house clients. Using a stimulating series of hypotheticals based on real-life experience, a panel of experts will review a variety of important professional responsibility issues that affect corporate counsel on a daily basis.

  Topics to be discussed include:

  • Understanding the “Corporate Miranda” warnings
  • Special problems representing employees in internal investigations
  • Advance conflict waivers & other problems with retainer agreements
  • Attorney-client privilege issues within corporate families & outside law firms
  • Disclosure of privileged materials – inadvertent & purloined
  • The SEC Whistleblower program – the legal & ethical implications

  Live program: $229 Member/$329 Nonmember

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• Cynthia B. Adams
  Managing Director, Litigation, Regulatory & Employment Legal
  Jefferies LLC

  Barry R. Temkin
  Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass LLP

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• 6:00-6:10	Introduction & Overview of Hypothetical
  6:10-6:45	Internal Investigations
  	– Whom Do You Represent in the Investigation? – Corporate Miranda Warnings – Ethical implications – Corporate Indemnification Policies – The Internal Investigation Report – Disclosure obligations to auditors
  6:45-7:25	Retaining Outside Counsel
  	– Problems with Retainer Agreements – Advance Conflict Waivers (and other Waivers) – Joint Representation – Retaining Outside Investigators – Representing the Company and the Employees
  7:25-7:35	Break
  7:35-8:10	Attorney-Client Privilege Waiver Issues
  	– Corporate families, mergers and acquisitions – who owns the privilege? – Cross-border privilege issues – Outside counsel – the law firm privilege
  8:10-8:50	The SEC Whistleblower Program
  	– How does the program work? – How does it compare to other whistleblower programs (FCA, IRS)? – Does it provide real protection to whistleblowers? – Can employers protect themselves from “whistleblowers?” – What are the ethical implications for attorneys who “blow the whistle”?
  8:50-9:00	Questions & Answers

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• New York: 3.0 Ethics
  New Jersey: 3.2 Professional Responsibility
  California: 3.0 Professional Responsibility
  Pennsylvania: 2.5 Professional Responsibility

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• Sponsorship Opportunities are Available! Please Contact:
  Ann Rappleye, Director, City Bar Center for CLE | (212) 382-6606 | ARappleye@nycbar.org or
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  Darianne De Leon, Program & Sponsorship Coordinator, City Bar Center for CLE | (212) 382-6731 | ddeleon@nycbar.org

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