This interactive program 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; attorney-client relationships’ termination.
EVENT DETAILS
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
3PM to 5PM | Webcast Only
Registration | Open to LSTA Members
**2.0 Ethics CLE Credits Will be Issued | Will Not Be Issued for Replay
SPEAKER
- Thomas E. Spahn, Counsel, McGuireWoods LLP
** For Other Jurisdictions, Attorneys Must Apply for CLE Credit Individually
