COURSE DESCRIPTION
Navigate the unique ethical landscape facing business lawyers where multiple client relationships, complex transactions, and corporate representation create sophisticated professional responsibility challenges. This specialized program addresses the intersection of legal ethics and business practice, from entity representation issues to transactional conflict identification. Ensure your business practice maintains the highest ethical standards while serving diverse client needs in complex commercial relationships.
- Understand entity representation principles and the distinction between representing organizations versus individuals
- Navigate conflicts of interest in multi-party business transactions and related entity representations
- Address confidentiality obligations when representing multiple parties in complex business arrangements
- Master professional conduct standards affecting business lawyer marketing, client development, and fee arrangements
Speaker:
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.