COURSE DESCRIPTION
Even the most diligent attorneys are not immune to mistakes—but how you respond can make all the difference. This engaging and practical program explores the ethical and disciplinary challenges lawyers face when mistakes happen and provides actionable strategies to navigate them effectively. Gain valuable insights into your professional responsibilities, mitigate risks, and protect your reputation. Don't miss this opportunity to strengthen your understanding of legal ethics and safeguard your practice.
Program Highlights
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Explore real-world examples of common lawyer errors and their ethical implications.
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Learn how to address mistakes in compliance with professional responsibility rules.
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Understand the disciplinary process and how to proactively mitigate sanctions.
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Gain practical tools to manage client relationships and maintain trust in challenging situations.
Speaker:
Tom Spahn is of counsel in the Tysons, Virginia office of McGuireWoods, where he advises firm clients on professional responsibility issues and properly creating and preserving the attorney-client privilege and work product protections. He has served on the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility and is a Member of the American Law Institute and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He has written extensively on attorney-client privilege, ethics and other topics, and has spoken at over 2200 CLE programs throughout the U.S. and in several foreign countries. Through links on his website biography, he has made available to the public his summaries of over 1,600 Virginia and ABA legal ethics opinions, organized by topic; a 300 page summary of his two-volume 1,500 page book on the attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine; over 1100 weekly email alerts about privilege and work product cases; and materials for 40 ethics programs on numerous topics, totaling over 9,000 pages of analysis.