Friday, March 2, 2018 | 9:00 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 the chance to see it – LIVE!
Live Program: $249 Member | $349 Nonmember
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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: A “Lawyer in the Room.” A “Lawyer on the Phone.” - Are Trump Jr. and Mark Corallo’s Criteria for Privilege Correct? (It Depends)
9:10 am – 9:20 am Michael Cohen Gave Stormy Daniels $130,000 on the eve of the 2016 election: Any problem? (Probably Not) 9:20 am – 9:35 am Conflict or Not: Can William Burck Simultaneously Represent Bannon, Priebus, and McGahn in the Mueller Probe? - And if so, what consents does he need? What are the risks?
9:35 am – 9:50 am Weinstein, Trump, and NDAs: Do Non-Disclosure Agreements Obstruct Justice? - When can lawyers facilitate them?
- Should we forbid them in sexual harassment settlements? Other settlements?
- And Speaking of Obstruction: What does “corruptly” in the federal obstruction law actually mean?
9:50 am – 10:05 am The NYS Bar Ass’n v. AVVO: What’s the Problem? 10:05 am – 10:20 am Do Lawyers Have a Duty to Instruct Their Clients in Pending or Foreseeable Litigation to Preserve Documents? Do They Have a Duty to Monitor Compliance? - Is failure to do these things malpractice?
10:20 am – 10:50 am Are You As Ethically Sharp as a 2L? - Questions include negotiation ethics, duties when representing a client before a legislative body or an administrative agency, and the prohibition against communications with an opposing client
10:50 am – 11:15 am Q&A -
NY: 2.5 ethics
NJ: 2.5 professional responsibility
CA: 2.5 professional responsibility
PA: 2.0 professional responsibility -
Sponsorship Opportunities are Available! Please Contact:
Maricela Alfonso, Membership and CLE Relations Associate | (212) 382-6608 | MAlfonso@nycbar.org
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