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The Corporate Client: You’re My Lawyer, Right?

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The ABA recently provided insight for attorneys who represent corporate clients. While that engagement is often limited to an attorney’s duty to the organization, there is a very real risk that the organization’s members –...more

Adams & Reese

[Webinar] 2024 Legal Ethics Year in Review - December 12th, 12:00 pm CT

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Leading ethics attorneys Lucian Pera, Partner with Adams and Reese, and Trish Rich, Partner with Holland & Knight, return for a free, one-hour review of the most important developments of the last year (or so) in legal ethics...more

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

Sidestepping Conflicts and Other Ethical Pitfalls in Employee Depositions

This blog post is the fourth in a series on common ethical challenges that arise when preparing for and conducting depositions. Quite often corporate employers want outside counsel to represent both the corporation and...more

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Cooperation Standards in Government Investigations: Practical Tips

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Editor’s Note: From time to time, ComplexDiscovery highlights publicly available or privately purchasable announcements, content updates, and research from cyber, data, and legal discovery providers, research organizations,...more

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[Webinar] Financial Services - Advising Trustees Who Manage Closely-Held Business Interests - September 27th, 10:00 am - 11:00 am...

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Settlors often place some or all of the ownership in a closely-held business in a trust. A trustee managing a trust with an interest in a closely held business has difficult management issues to address and this often raises...more

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[Webinar] The Legal Ethics Year in Review: News You Can Use for Corporate Counsel - December 15th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CST

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Why You Should Attend: Lucian Pera provides a wide-ranging, thorough review of the most important developments over the last year in legal ethics, the law of lawyering, and attorney-client privilege. In the one-hour...more

Allen Matkins

Why I Believe Professor Kim Is Asking The Wrong Question About Gatekeepers

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In a forthcoming chapter in The Cambridge Handbook of Investor Protection (Cambridge University Press, 2021) UCLA Law Professor Sung Hui Kim asks "Do Lawyers Make Good Gatekeepers"?   She posits that there is "a strong case...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Insights: The Delaware Edition - November 2019

This issue focuses on important, developing areas of Delaware corporation law and deal litigation, including recent trends in Delaware corporate disclosure law, the Delaware Supreme Court’s important ruling in Marchand v....more

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The Lawyers' Lawyer Newsletter - Halloween Issue - October 2018

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TRICK OR TREAT! - As Halloween nears, and the Great Pumpkin readies itself to visit, the editors of the Halloween edition of the Lawyers’ Lawyer Newsletter invite you to enjoy the suspenseful but hair-raisingly narrow...more

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

What to Consider Before Agreeing to Joint Defense

In matters of representation in complex cases, litigators have a responsibility to protect a client’s case and defend their right to invoke the Fifth Amendment. But these ideals become compromised when a lawyer deposes...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Corporate Law & Governance Update - June 2018

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Executive Compensation Recoupment - The most recent development in the prominent University of Louisville Foundation controversy is the release of an independent analysis suggesting that its senior executive leadership was...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

In Principle: 10 Things Authorised Firms Need to Know for 2018 – The World of Financial Regulation as the UK Prepares to Exit the...

There is much for authorised firms to consider in the year ahead. Firms have been through the intensive period of the enactment of the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II), but must now step up their...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

The Lawyers' Lawyer Newsletter - Recent Developments in Risk Management - January 2018

Prospective Clients – Avoiding Communication of Confidential Information Except as Needed to Check for Conflicts of Interest - Mt. Hebron Dist. Missionary Baptist Assoc. of Al., Inc. v. Sentinel Ins. Co., 2017 U.S. Dist....more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Attorneys Switching Sides During Litigation Sometimes Allowed… at least in the First Department!

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Notwithstanding general public opinion of attorney ethics, most people (including attorneys) believe that an attorney cannot dump a client in the middle of litigation to represent the other side. However, attorneys in the...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

The Lawyers' Lawyer Newsletter - Recent Developments in Risk Management - September 2017

Conflict of Interest – Current Clients – Duty of Care with Respect to Unrelated Matters - Oakland Police & Fire Retirement System, et al. v. Mayer Brown, LLP, 861 F.3d 644 (7th Cir. 2017) - Risk Management Issue: Does a...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

The Lawyers' Lawyer Newsletter - Recent Developments in Risk Management - April 2017

Attorney-Client Privilege – Invoices to Public Entity Client – Ongoing Litigation - Los Angeles Cty. Bd. of Supervisors v. Superior Court, 2 Cal. 5th 282, 386 P.3d 773 (2016) - Risk Management Issue: May a law firm's...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Investment Management Legal + Regulatory Update – February 2017

REGULATION - DOL Issues Additional Guidance on Fiduciary Rule - On January 13, 2017, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a second set of guidance on its new fiduciary rules, which are scheduled to become...more

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The Lawyers' Lawyer Newsletter - Recent Developments in Risk Management - November 2016

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Aiding and Abetting the Unauthorized Practice of Law — Conducting a Due Diligence Background Check for Incoming Lawyers and Lateral Hires - The Case: Kimberly Kitchen began working at BMZ Law PC part-time in 2005. She...more

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New York Appellate Division Strongly Supports In-House Law Firm Privilege Claim

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In Stock v. Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, 2016 WL 3556655 (N.Y. App. Div. 2016), the First Judicial Department of the New York Appellate Division upheld, in a case involving a former law firm client seeking to sue the...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

The Lawyers' Lawyer Newsletter - Recent Developments in Risk Management - June 2016

Disqualification — Substantially Related Matters — Waiver of Conflict by Lack of Diligence in Seeking Disqualification - State of Minnesota, et al v. 3M Company, Hennepin County (Minn.), Court File No. 27-CV-10-28862...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

The Lawyers' Lawyer Newsletter - Recent Developments in Risk Management - May 2016

Conflicts of Interest — Subject Matter Conflicts — Can IP Attorneys Simultaneously Represent Two Clients That Are Prosecuting Patents for Similar Inventions? - Maling v. Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner,...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Government’s Penn State Investigation Produces Lessons for In-House Counsel

The fallout at Penn State University in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child-sexual-abuse scandal, including the victims’ suffering, Sandusky’s criminal conviction, the firing and subsequent death of legendary Coach Joe...more

BakerHostetler

Federal Circuit Judge Bryson Denies Motion to Disqualify Plaintiff’s Counsel

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Providing a rare glimpse into a Federal Circuit judge’s views on the rules of professional conduct governing conflicts of interest, on February 26, 2016, Federal Circuit Judge William Bryson, sitting as a trial judge, denied...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

Avoiding the Upsurge in Trust, Probate and Estate Planning Malpractice

The number of lawsuits against trust, probate and estate planning attorneys has significantly increased over the last several years. Today, trust, probate and estate planing attorneys are charged with legal malpractice and...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

New DOJ Corporate Prosecution Guidelines

On September 9, 2015, United States Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates released a memorandum titled “Individual Accountability for Corporate Wrongdoing,” the latest in a series of corporate prosecution guidelines written by...more

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