Legal Ethics: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
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About
This Course
This program will teach attorneys the critical ethical information needed to successfully manage their legal practice. Discussions will include all aspects of legal ethics including: duty of diligence, competence, supervision, and when you need to ask for help; duty of confidentiality and when disclosure of confidential information is permitted; identifying and avoiding conflicts of interest, as well as drafting waivers; identifying situations where "insider trading" may arise; maintaining data security in the modern office; interactions with persons other than clients; and law firm-related issues.
Attorneys will learn the relevant legal framework, best practices to identify ethical issues, and how to resolve ethical issues through interactive hypotheticals and real case scenarios.
Attorneys who are admitted to practice law, from all levels of experience and practice fields, are encouraged to attend.
Learning Objectives:
- Explore duty of diligence and competence (ABA Model Rules 1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 5.1, and 6.1)
- Investigate duty of confidentiality (ABA Model Rules 1.6, 1.9, and 1.18)
- Identify conflicts of interest (ABA Model Rules 1.2, 1.7-1.11, and 1.18)
- Recognize and avoid insider trading situations (ABA Model Rules 1.6-1.8)
- Evaluate transactions with persons other than clients (ABA Model Rules 1.7-1.9, 1.13, 1.14, 1.18, and 4.1-4.4)
- Understand ethical considerations at law firms and associations (ABA Model Rules 1.17 and 5.1-5.7)
About the Presenters
Yifan Mao, MSc.
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
Practice Area: Intellectual Property
Yifan Mao is Counsel at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP. She attended Santa Clara University School of Law. During law school, she externed for the Honorable Beth Labson Freeman of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and interned with the Entrepreneur Law Clinic of the law school. Yifan has been admitted to practice in the State of California since 2015. Before her legal career, Yifan held research positions at Genentech and Genencor International (now DuPont Industrial Biosciences). Yifan was a senior patent agent at an agriculture biotechnology company, where she developed the company’s patent portfolio on genomics, bioenergy, and ...
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Rich Christiansen, Esq.
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
Practice Area: Intellectual Property
Rich Christiansen focuses his practice on patent prosecution and counseling for various technologies, including medical devices, electronics, software, clean technology, and mechanical devices. Rich has helped his clients design, build, and rejuvenate IP portfolios to achieve business and legal objectives. Rich's practice includes due diligence, clearance reviews, opinion work, licensing, and litigation.Before, he was a design engineer at Raytheon Missile System, where he participated in developing and testing a new weapon system. Rich was recognized in 2023 as one of the "Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch" for Patent Law by The Best Lawyers in America®. In 2020, Rich was recommended by Legal ...
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Kathryn Wade, Ph.D., Esq.
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
Practice Area: Intellectual Property
Kathryn Wade focuses her practice on intellectual property matters in the biotechnology industry, including managing domestic and foreign patent prosecution; representing clients in post-grant proceedings; drafting opinions on patentability, invalidity, and non-infringement issues; and providing technical support and analysis in patent litigation. Dr. Wade has experience in the areas of biotechnology, disease treatment and diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, and biomedical devices, and she has provided intellectual property counsel to a variety of clients, ranging from start-up life sciences companies, to universities, to multinational biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. She routinely works with in-house counsel, scientific officers, inventors, and corporate business people to identify ...
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