Walking the Tightrope of Professional Responsibility for Corporate Counsel
Walking the Tightrope of Professional Responsibility for Corporate Counsel
Date:
May 13, 2010
Location:
Sills Cummis & Gross P.C. The Legal Center, One Riverfront Plaza, Newark, New Jersey
Speaker(s):
Peter G. Verniero Richard H. Epstein James M. Hirschhorn
Sponsor:
Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.
The Women’s Group of Sills Cummis & Gross hosted a CLE breakfast seminar entitled “Walking the Tightrope of Professional Responsibility for Corporate Counsel.”
Topics included:
The Organization as a Client: Ethical issues for in-house counsel in representing a corporate entity, including situations where officers or directors have conflicting view of resolving problems
When to Retain Separate Counsel for a Corporate Employee: Deciding on the need for separate counsel when litigation is threatened or occurs involving both the corporation and the employee
Ethical Issues for In-House Legal Advisors under Sarbanes-Oxley Sarbanes-Oxley: Reporting requirements and the intersection between these requirements and state attorney ethics rules
