Electronic Era Ethics

Popular CLE presenter Tom Spahn is back and ready to deliver another practical ethics program! Instructive and entertaining, this engaging presentation uses hypotheticals to highlight the dramatic effect email, texts and other electronic communications have had on lawyers’ ethics duties. The program generally follows the lifespan of an attorney-client relationship, including: creation of the relationship (such as the effect of an unsolicited email from a would-be client); the ethical propriety of electronic communications with clients (especially lawyers who practice "virtually"); communications with adversaries (including "reply all" emails, lawyers’ response to inadvertently transmitted communications, and metadata); dealing with third parties (such as service providers and outsourced colleagues); discovery (such as accessing adverse witnesses’ social media); jurors’ research and communications; judges’ research and “friending” of lawyers; and attorney-client relationships’ termination.

– Thomas E. Spahn; McGuireWoods LLP; Tysons, Virginia

Attendees of the 2024 Midwest IP Institute (in-person or replay) may attend this webcast for FREE.
Instructions on how to register for free will be distributed to attendees at the Institute.

Webcast also included in the following webcast package:
2024 Midwest IP Institute Webcast Series