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This is a sample first
page from materials given to seminar participants This particular short excerpt
is from an afternoon seminar course requested by an association of lawyers for
telecommunications companies.
The Ethics of
Internal Corporate Investigations
Headlining:
- Board of Directors, CEO, and
General Counsel's roles in conducting an investigation
- Board of Directors, CEO, and
General Counsel's roles in engaging outside legal counsel --- and outside
ethics counsel.
- Selection of legal and
ethical counsel and the
importance of independence.
- Typical scenarios and "best
practices" in handling them.
- Dilemmas in dealing with ongoing
violations and corrective measures.
- Increasing legal and ethical
dangers confronting attorneys.
Course Syllabus
Ethics Inside and Outside:
Internal Investigations and External Negotiations
By Leonard H. Bucklin
The Ethics Inside and Outside seminar will focus on current issues involving professional liability and ethics
traps
for counsel for business entities. As an attendee, you will acquire
knowledge of tools and techniques you can use to navigate through:
internal investigations for your client; and
external negotiations for your client.
These are what lawyers need to know in the post-Enron environment.
Whether you are checking whether the company bookkeeper has embezzled, or negotiating
with a claimant's attorney a
settlement of a claim of corporate wrongdoing, you need to know ethics, what the
ABA now says, and what you as a lawyer can do.
This course focuses on problems confronting attorneys who work for business
entities. We will consider topics including the following: identifying the
client, attorney-client privilege, conflict of interest, practical ethics
problems in overseeing internal investigations, and running LCE (Legal
Compliance and Ethics ) programs that help in internal investigations. Internal
investigations may be the result of external adversaries or lead to the need to
deal with external adversaries. Thus, after the above topics, we then move to some of the practical
ethics problems that develop in external negotiations with those adversaries.
Copyright 2002 to
31 Jan 2011 Leonard H. Bucklin, Bucklin Of Counsel, 8063 S. Michele Ln.,
Tempe, AZ 85284. Permission is granted for sponsors of seminars at which he
appears to publish the course materials for use of the seminar participants. All other
rights are reserved.
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