A CLE Presentation for

Protecting Attorney-Client Privilege & Top Ten Ethical Challenges for In-House Counsel

Two presentations for the price of one:

Ways to Protect Attorney-Client Privilege and Attorney Work Product during Internal Investigations

Presented by Pete Tepley, Partner |Securities & Financial Services and Commercial Litigation

This presentation will address the ways to protect attorney-client privilege and the attorney work product during internal investigations.  Areas to be covered will include: (i) who is and who is not the client, (ii) what can and cannot be protected from disclosure; (iii)  communications and interviews with company employees during the investigation; (iii) ways to preserve the attorney-client privilege and attorney work-product exemption; and (iv) reasons why the company may want to waive the privilege and exemption. 

Top Ten Under-Appreciated Ethical Challenges for In-House Counsel

Presented by Craig Alexander, Partner | Professional Responsibility and Commercial Litigation

This presentation will address common ethical concerns regularly encountered by lawyers working as in-house counsel, including problems in client identification, conflict of interests potentially created by business transactions with the employer-client, unauthorized practice of law issues in advising the employer-client on the law in a jurisdiction in which the lawyer is not admitted to practice, and maintaining professional independence in providing legal services to the employer-client.