(Webcast) Guess What — Your Online Mediation May Not Be Confidential

Thursday, February 4, 2021 | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

• Description
• Agenda
• CLE Credit
• Sponsors

• This program will explain how choice-of-law rules apply to mediation privilege and confidentiality issues; the malpractice risks lawyers and mediators take when they promise mediation confidentiality; the risks of waiving contract-based defenses to mediated settlement agreements; and the dangers of signing a mediation confidentiality agreement with a liability waiver in favor of the mediator. Three key benefits: How to advise clients regarding whether to sign a mediator’s confidentiality agreement; How to advise clients regarding how candid to be in a mediation; How to minimize malpractice risks in mediation.

  Program Fee:
  $99 for Members | $199 for Nonmembers
  Small Law Firm: $59 for Members

  Members who are Recent Law Graduates, Newly Admitted Lawyers (admitted for the first time in any state or country 2019-2021), In-House/Corporate Counsel, Judges, or attorneys that practice within the Government, Academic or Not-for-Profit sectors attend this program for free.

• 12:00 pm- 12:05 pm
  Introduction

  12:05 pm- 12:25 pm
  How Conflict of Laws Principles Apply to the Confidentiality of Online Mediations

  12:25 pm- 12:45 pm
  Malpractice and Ethical Risks of Promising Air-tight Confidentiality

  12:45 pm- 1:00 pm
  Ethical and Related Issues Concerning Prospective Waivers of Liability

• New York: 1.0 Professional Practice
  New Jersey: 1.0 General
  California: 1.0 General
  Pennsylvania: 1.0 General
  Connecticut: Available to Licensed Attorneys

• Sponsoring Association Committee:
  Alternative Dispute Resolution, Charles M. Newman, Chair

  Sponsorship Opportunities are Available! Please Contact:
  Angie Avila, Manager, Membership Outreach and Sponsorships | (212) 382-6608 | aavila@nycbar.org