Current Legal Ethical Issues

No matter your practice area or whether or not you have previously attended, you won’t want to miss this program. Join us to hear this nationally renowned professor and ethicist address current issues of legal ethics. Programs typically feature distinct topics which are chosen close in time to the event to maximize topicality. The topics are geared to an audience of diverse interests. Audience questions and comments are encouraged.

This program will not be taped. You will only have the chance to see it – Live!

Live Program (includes materials):
Member: $249
Nonmember: $349

Stephen Gillers has been a professor of law at New York University School of Law since 1978 and Vice Dean from 1999-2004. He holds the Elihu Root chair. He does most of his research and writing on the regulation of the legal profession. His courses include Regulation of Lawyers, Evidence, and Law and Literature (with University Professor Catharine Stimpson, former dean of the graduate school).

Professor Gillers has written widely on legal and judicial ethics in law reviews and in the legal and popular press. He has taught legal ethics as a visitor at other law schools and has spoken on lawyer regulatory issues at hundreds of events in the U.S. and abroad – often for legal ethics CLE credit – including at federal and state judicial conferences, law firms, corporate general counsel’s offices, government law offices, ABA meetings, state and city bar meetings nationwide, in oral and written submissions to Congress, and in law school lectureships. For many years, four or five times each year, he has lectured on legal ethics at the New York City Bar Association CLEs.

Professor Gillers is the author of Regulation of Lawyers: Problems of Law and Ethics, a widely used law school casebook first published by Little, Brown (now Aspen) in 1985 with a 9th edition published in 2012. With Roy Simon (and as of 2008, also Andrew Perlman), he has edited Regulation of Lawyers: Statutes and Standards, published annually by Little, Brown, then Aspen, since 1989. He is also the author of Regulation of the Legal Profession (Aspen 2009)(the “Essentials” series).

9:00 a.m. – 9:05 a.m. Introduction

9:05 a.m. – 9:20 a.m. Inadvertent Disclosure: The value (especially in NY) of an agreement

9:20 a.m. – 9:35 a.m. Conflicts 101 for Transactional Lawyers

9:35 a.m. – 9:50 a.m. Cross Border Practice (between states and countries): When is it NOT Unauthorized Practice

9:50 a.m. – 10:05 a.m. Williams v. BASF & Cahill Gordon: Lessons for Lawyers

10:05 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. Informational Conflicts (what are they?)

10:20 a.m. – 10:35 a.m. When is There a Duty to Correct an Opponent’s Drafting Errors?

10:35 a.m. – 10:50 a.m. The “In Pari Delicto” Defense to Professional Misconduct

10:50 a.m. – 11:05 a.m. Q&A throughout

New York Credit: 2.5 ethics
This program provides transitional/non-transitional credit for all attorneys.
California Credit: 2.5 professional responsibility
New Jersey Credit: 2.5 professional responsibility
Pennsylvania Credit: 2.0 professional responsibility

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