The annual Dan K. Moore Program in Ethics will be held at the UNC Center for School Leadership Development on Friday, Nov. 13, 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 program is presented by the UNC Center for Banking and Finance and the Office of Continuing Legal Education.
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.
This year's program, Ethical Issues for Corporate Lawyers, will include 4 hours of continuing legal education credit, including credit in ethics and professional responsibility. The program, which includes a networking lunch for panelists and participants, will cover the following topics:
- Ethical issues related to cloud storage, cybersecurity and data breaches
- Ethical issues related to alternative and computerized legal service providers
- A primer on ethical rules in the UK, EU, and other non-U.S. jurisdictions and implications for the international deal
- Corporate family conflicts of interest
Program panelists include Bernard A. Burk, Campbell Law School; Andrew T. Knowles, US Pharma and GlaxoSmithKline; Bradley D. Kohn, Cree, Inc.; James K. Wagner Jr., Apogee Legal; Lee M. Whitman, Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP; and Christopher M. Zochowski, Winston & Strawn.
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.
Conference registration is now open. For more information: http://www.law.unc.edu/cle/dankmoore/.
-September 17, 2015