Zuckerman Spaeder LLP partner C. Evan Stewart will chair the faculty for the Practising Law Institute's (PLI) program “Ethics for Corporate Counsel: Multijurisdictional Practice and Other Current Issues 2012,” in New York on February 22, 2012. The program will discuss the following issues:
- New developments in multijurisdictional practice issues (including the interplay and disparity of various state ethics rules, different enforcement regimes, and the interplay between U.S. rules and international rules);
- Current issues relating to multiple representations;
- Recent developments involving conflicts of interest;
- Whistleblower remedies for corporate counsel;
- Dangers to corporate counsel in civil discovery;
- New developments in confidentiality, the attorney-client privilege, and the attorney work-product doctrine (including disclosure obligations to third parties, the status of government pressure to waive, selective waiver, and inadvertent waiver); and
- Lawyers’ exposure to civil liability.
To register or view the program as a live webcast, please visit www.pli.edu.