Gain an understanding of ethical standards, challenges, and obligations commonly encountered while engaged in transactional work.
The rules of professional conduct have their own unique application in the transactional context, and all attorneys, including estate planners and litigators, engage in some form of transactional work. For example, drafting a settlement agreement by a litigator is in the nature of transactional work. In a transactional setting, there can be a conflict between the obligations the attorney has to the client and the attorney’s duties of honesty and truthfulness. Additionally, professional conflicts can arise in unsuspecting ways in a transactional setting.
Agenda
Conflicts of Interest
- Conflicts Between Current Clients
- Conflicts With Former Clients
- Conflicts Between the Attorney and Client
- Conflicts With Prospective Clients
- Imputation of Conflicts
Obligations of Confidentiality
- Ethical Rule of Confidentiality
- Attorney - Client Privilege
Client Communications
Obligations of Honesty and Truthfulness
- Obligations of Truthfulness
- Conflicts of Duty of Truthfulness With Confidentiality
- Noisy Withdrawal
Speakers
John A. Snow,
Parsons Behle & Latimer- Attorney with Prince Yeates & Geldzahler, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Practice consists of general civil litigation; including commercial, professional malpractice, construction, and insurance coverage and defense
- Designated in The Best Lawyers in America as Lawyer of the Year in litigation, real estate, and construction law; and designated in the areas of practice of legal malpractice defense, commercial litigation and construction
- Designated in Utah Business magazine’s Utah Legal Elite in the areas of business and civil litigation and construction law, and as a Super Lawyer in the Mountain States in Super Lawyer magazine
- Ranked in Chambers USA for Utah in general commercial litigation
- Chair of the Ethics Advisory Opinion Committee of the Utah State Bar
- Can be contacted at 801-524-1073 or jsnow@princeyeates.com
Who Should Attend
This live webinar is primarily designed for attorneys. Other legal, construction, and environmental professionals may also benefit from attending.
