This registration form is for Monday, October 14, 10:00 a.m.–Noon ET
This program is also available on:
Monday, September 23, 10:00 a.m.–Noon ET
| MCLE Credit: | 2.0 (Ethics: 2.0) |
| Live-Interactive Credit: | 2.0 (all dates, all formats) |
| Designation Credit: | 2.0 Ethics (Designations Information) |
Using hypotheticals in this interactive program, Tom Spahn will explore key issues involving one of our profession’s core duties—maintaining client confidences. He will address, among other things, our confidential duty’s strength, source, timing, and content. He will also cover exceptions: in the context of joint representations; when complying with laws or court orders; when clearing conflicts; when defending from clients’ claims or criticism; and when seeking to collect unpaid fees. Finally, Mr. Spahn will explore lawyers’ confidentiality and disclosure duties in the context of some non-clients’ misconduct, including corporations’ lawyers’ “reporting up” of employee misconduct, and misprision of felonies.
Registration Deadlines:
Webcast: | 10 minutes prior to seminar. If you register for a webcast the day of the seminar, your e-mail receipt will include a link to launch the seminar and download the materials. |
Telephone: | Online registration ends at 11:59 p.m. the day preceding the seminar |
Cancellation Policy: Cancellation/transfer requests will be honored until 5:00 p.m. the day preceding the seminar. You will, however, be charged $40 if you cancel or transfer your registration to a different seminar after the link to the materials has been e-mailed by Virginia CLE®.
Full refunds or transfers are available up to two days after a webcast in the unlikely event that you experience technical difficulties.
Inclement Weather Policy and Updates.
MCLE Credit Caveat: The MCLE Board measures credits by the time you spend in attendance. If you enter a seminar late or leave it early, or both, you must reflect those adjustments accurately in the credits you report on your credit reporting form. A code will be given at the end of the seminar, which must be written on your MCLE form.
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10:00 | Tom Spahn on Confidentiality: Key Issues |
12:00 | Adjourn |
Thomas E. Spahn, McGuireWoods LLP / Tysons
Thomas E. Spahn practices as a commercial litigator with McGuireWoods in Tysons, Virginia. He was selected as the 2013 and 2020 metro-Washington, DC “Lawyer of the Year” for “Bet the Company Litigation” by The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White, Inc.). 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 is a fellow of the Virginia Law Foundation. Mr. Spahn has written extensively on attorney-client privilege (including the Virginia CLE® publications The Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work Product Doctrine: A Practitioner’s Guide and A Virginia-Specific Summary Guide: The Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work Product Doctrine), ethics, and other topics, and has spoken at more than 1,400 CLE programs throughout the U.S. and in several foreign countries. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale University and received his J.D. from Yale Law School.
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