Ethics: In-House Counsel Ethics
Schedule and Faculty
Schedule times listed below are for the live seminar. Times for replays may differ due to varied start times and abbreviated break periods. Please refer to the DATES/LOCATION tab for individual replay start times.
8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
CHECK-IN & CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
Hot Topics in Attorney-Client Privilege for In-House Counsel
Attorneys have an ethical duty to protect their clients’ privileged information. And in-house attorneys are increasingly playing a variety of roles within companies including corporate attorney, personal adviser to executives and employees, business executive, contract negotiator, personnel director and more. This multiplicity of roles can render more of your communications discoverable than you might think. This session will provide insight on how to recognize the role you are playing at a given time and the impact that may have on discoverability of your communications and written work. It will provide practical guidance on how to distinguish discoverable business communications from privileged legal communications; how to prevent inadvertent disclosure of privileged documents; how to minimize the scope of depositions of in-house attorneys; and more.
– Jenny Gassman-Pines; Greene Espel, PLLP; Minneapolis
10:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Conflicts of Interest and Confidentiality When House Counsel Represents Subsidiaries, Spin-offs, Individual Officers, Directors, or Employees
Deals are moving, deadlines are looming, and litigation decisions must be made. Everyone wants your assistance and “representation.” Can you represent everyone? Who is your client? Are there conflicts of interest and danger that privileges will be compromised? Revisit the legal principles you need to apply when in-house counsel confronts these issues.
– Ken Jorgensen; Dorsey & Whitney LLP; Minneapolis
11:00 – 11:15 a.m.
BREAK
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Where Technology Meets Attorney Ethics: Considerations for In-House Counsel
A noted privacy attorney and forensics expert provides insights on significant ethics/professional responsibility issues at the cutting edge of technology. What are the potential ethics pitfalls when in-house attorneys “BYOD,” using their own personal devices for work matters? Or when in-house counsel (or their outside attorneys) use apps or the cloud? What are best practices for protecting client confidences when using new technologies?
– Paul H. Luehr; Stroz Friedberg, LLC; Minneapolis