Thursday, December 3, 2015 | 9 am – 11:15 am
Program Instructor Stephen Gillers
Elihu Root Professor of Law
New York University School of Law
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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 one chance to see it – Live!
Live Program:
$249 Member/$349 NonmemberDiscounts will be granted to attorneys working for government agencies, public interest groups, full-time students and full-time academics. -
Stephen Gillers is Elihu Root Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, where he has taught since 1978 and served as Vice Dean from 1999 to 2004. He has written widely on legal ethics and has spoken at hundreds of events in the U.S. and abroad. He is the author of Regulation of Lawyers: Problems of Law and Ethics first published in 1985 and now in its 10th edition.
From 2000-2002, Professor Gillers was a member of the ABA’s Multijurisdictional Practice Commission. In 2010-2013, he was a member of the ABA’s 20/20 Commission. In 2011, he received the Michael Franck Award from the ABA’s Center for Professional Responsibility. In 2015, he received the American Bar Foundation’s Outstanding Scholar Award.
Professor Gillers’ recent scholarship includes “Guns, Fruit, Drugs, and Documents: A Criminal Defense Lawyer’s Responsibility for Real Evidence,” 63 Stan. L. Rev. 813 (2011); “A Profession, If You Can Keep It: How Information Technology and Fading Borders Are Reshaping the Law Marketplace and What We Should Do About It,” 63 Hastings L. J. 953 (2012); “How To Make Rules for Lawyers: The Professional Responsibility of the Legal Profession,” 40 Pepperdine L. Rev. 365 (2013)(Symposium issue on The Lawyer of the Future); “Lowering the Bar: How Lawyer Discipline in New York Fails to Protect the Public,” 17 J. Legis. & Public Policy 485 (2014); and “A Tendency to Deprave and Corrupt: The Transformation of American Obscenity Law from Hicklin to Ulysses II, 85 Wash. L. Rev. 215 (2007).
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9:00 am – 9:10 am Introduction: ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services 9:10 am – 10:25 am What Would You Advise?
- Lawyer, Realtor, Any Problem?
- “Do I Still Owe the Record Store?”
- Restraint of Trade
- False Inferences from False Testimony (criminal)
- False Inferences from False Testimony (civil)
- False Inferences from True Testimony (criminal)
- “The Eyewitness I and II”
- Playing Games with the Jury
- Conflicts and the Revolving Door
10:25 am – 10:40 am DANGER to Lawyers from Spoliation and Discovery Abuse
10:40 am – 10:50 am Break
10:50 am – 11:00 am The Fiduciary Exception to the Attorney-Client Privilege 11:00 am – 11:15 am Q&A throughout -
New York Credit: 2.5 ethics
California Credit: 2.5 ethics
New Jersey Credit: 2.5 ethics
Pennsylvania Credit: 2.0 professional responsibility -
Sponsorship Opportunities are Available! Please Contact:
Laura Poles, Program Attorney | (212) 382-6612 | lpoles@nycbar.org -