COURSE DESCRIPTION
Navigate the complex ethical landscape of remote legal practice where traditional office-based professional responsibility concepts meet modern distributed work realities. This essential program addresses the unique challenges of maintaining ethical compliance while working outside conventional law office environments. Master the evolving requirements for remote practice while leveraging technology's benefits for enhanced client service and work-life balance.
- Understand confidentiality and data security requirements for remote legal practice and client communications
- Address competence and supervision obligations when working with remote staff and virtual teams
- Navigate client identity verification and trust account management requirements in remote practice settings
- Implement technology solutions that satisfy ethical obligations while enabling effective remote client service
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.