COURSE DESCRIPTION
Experts and witnesses can elevate your case—or your risk profile. This program addresses compensation, independence, communications, and disclosure through an ethics lens. Learn how to prepare effectively while honoring your duties to the court and client.
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Structure payments and avoid contingency-based pitfalls.
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Manage drafts, messaging apps, and discoverability of communications.
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Balance witness preparation with the prohibition on coaching.
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Clear conflicts and maintain expert independence.
Speaker:
Thomas E. Spahn is a partner in the McLean, Virginia office of McGuireWoods, LLP, where he has a substantial practice advising clients on properly creating and preserving the attorney-client privilege and work product protections. For more than 30 years he has lectured extensively on legal ethics and professionalism and has written “The Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work Product Doctrine: A Practitioner’s Guide,” a 750 page treatise published by the Virginia Law Foundation. Mr. Spahn has served as a member of the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility and as a member of the Virginia State Bar's Legal Ethics Committee. He received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Yale University and his J.D. from Yale Law School.