Special Program: Ethics CLE
Saturday, June 16, 2012
9:45 a.m.
Rooms A&B
Cavalier Beach Club
2.0 Ethics (pending)
With his unique blend of scholarship and humor, and using one of the most unusual PowerPoint presentations you’ve ever seen, lawyer and nationally-renowned speaker Mike Rubin, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana will challenge your thinking, raise issues to ponder, and give you something to smile about! Each of these presentations will qualify for one ethics credit.
THE ETHICS OF VIRGINIA NEGOTIATIONS: ARE THERE ANY?
Sure, we all negotiate every day and we never intentionally mislead the other side - - - well, maybe we puff a bit, but that's OK, isn't it? That’s how the game is played, correct? And certainly there’s nothing inherently unethical about the negotiation process, right? Wait — are you sure that the answers to those questions are as clear cut as they seem?
HOW CAN I HAVE A CONFLICT IF I HAVE A WAIVER LETTER?
We all get engagement and waiver letters if there is the possibility of a potential conflict, but, do our waiver provisions really work as we expect them to? Can we really anticipate all the issues that might arise and deal with them adequately in an engagement letter? How can we make our engagement letters better? Join a fast-paced session during which our panel ([list names of panelists]) will respond to a flurry of questions posed by legal ethicist Mike Rubin.
The program is sure to keep you informed and entertained!
MICHAEL H. RUBIN
Mike Rubin, from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, heads the Appellate Practice Team of the multi-state law firm of McGlinchey Stafford PLLC. In addition to the full-time practice of law, including trying major commercial cases for Fortune 500 companies, for more than three decades he also has served as an Adjunct Professor teaching finance, real estate and advanced legal ethics at the law schools at Louisiana State University, Tulane, and Southern University. Mike has presented more than 350 major lectures and papers throughout the U.S., Canada, and England and is an author or co-author and contributing writer of thirteen books and over thirty articles. His most recent book, on Louisiana finance, real estate, and lending law, is Louisiana Security Devices: A Précis (Lexis/Nexis 2011). His publications are regularly cited as authoritative by state supreme courts and federal appellate courts. Mike has served as President of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Bar Association, the Louisiana State Bar Association, and the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, and he has been Chair of the ABA Real Property Section's Ethics Committee. He serves as a Commissioner on the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, a member of the American Law Institute, the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, the American College of Mortgage Attorneys, the American College of Commercial Finance Attorneys, and he is one of only fifty U.S. lawyers elected to the international Anglo-American Real Property Institute.
Updated: January 30, 2012