The annual Dan K. Moore Program in Ethics will be held at the UNC Center for School Leadership Development on Friday, Oct. 24, from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The continuing legal education program is dedicated to the legacy of professional ethics left to us by the distinguished life and work of Dan K. Moore, the former governor of North Carolina and a 1929 graduate of UNC School of Law.
The panel will explore the challenges facing law firms in hiring and training attorneys, as well as training provided to law firm lawyers representing their organization, in the current economic and legal climate.
The topic is “Emerging Issues in Privilege and Conflicts of Interest" and includes panels examining on a wide range of issues:
- Work Product and the Business Lawyer;
- Lawyer-Client Disputes and the Privilege for Communications within a Law Firm with the Firm's Own In-House Counsel;
- Attorney-Client Privilege and Conflicts of Interest in Mergers and Acquisitions;
- Conflicts of Interest in a Complex World;
- A review of professional responsibility issues commonly faced by business lawyers.
Program panelists include two in-house counsel – Tammy Stringer, senior vice president/Insurance Division general counsel, and Jennifer B. Venable, general counsel for Capital Broadcasting Company. They are joined by Alison R. Bost, Womble Carlyle's deputy general counsel; William G. Papas, partner and member of the board of directors of Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein; and UNC School of Law's Bernard A. Burk.
Burk, along with UNC's Thomas Lee Hazen, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Law, and Lissa L. Broome, Wells Fargo Professor of Banking Law and director of the Center for Banking and Finance, were co-planners of this year's program.
This program provides four hours of ethics/professional responsibility continuing legal education credit and is aimed specifically at lawyers who regularly advise corporate clients. Conference registration is now open. For more information: http://www.law.unc.edu/cle/dankmoore/.
-September 23, 2014