LIVE REPLAY: Lawyer Ethics in Real Estate Practice

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COURSE INFO

  • Presentation Date 8/13/2020
  • Next Class Time 1:00 PM ET
  • Duration 60 min.
  • Format Audio Webcast
  • Program Code 04292020c
  • Ethics Credits 1 hour(s)


Course Price: $79.00
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COURSE DESCRIPTION

The real estate industry is fiercely competitive as developers and contractors, investors and lenders, brokers and others – often with the aid of legal counsel – seek advantage. This can easily present real estate lawyers with ethical dilemmas. Conflicts of interest are rife. There are issues of communicating and negotiating with unrepresented parties. There are also issues of taking an equity stake in a real estate venture in lieu of fees.  Sometimes, too, there is the discovery that a client is engaged in wrongdoing. These and many other ethical issues arise in real estate practice.  This program will provide you with a real world guide to common ethics issues in real estate practice.

  • Joint representations of a business entity and its owners in a real estate transaction
  • Representation of a client with adverse interests in unrelated transactions
  • Receipt of deal equity in exchange for legal services
  • Communications with unrepresented parties – and with represented parties
  • Inadvertent disclosure of confidential deal terms
  • Special issues when client wrongdoing is discovered

 

Speakers:

Thomas E. Spahn is a partner in the McLean, Virginia office of McGuireWoods, LLP, where he has a substantial practice advising clients on properly creating and preserving the attorney-client privilege and work product protections.For more than 30 years he has lectured extensively on legal ethics and professionalism and has written “The Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work Product Doctrine: A Practitioner’s Guide,” a 750 page treatise published by the Virginia Law Foundation.Mr. Spahn has served as a member of the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility and as a member of the Virginia State Bar's Legal Ethics Committee.He received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Yale University and his J.D. from Yale Law School.