California Lawyers Association 

 

Litigation Section   Ethics and E-Discovery: What You Don’t Know Will Hurt You   Credit(s): 1 Participatory MCLE Credits 1 Ethics Course Number: LIT-1-21-16 Original Program Date: January 21, 2016 Duration: 1 hour 1 minute Access: Available for 3 months after purchase Date: September 17, 2018 12:00 PM - 1:01 PM (Pacific)

 

Description

 

The California Bar’s Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct recently issued a much-awaited opinion on the ethical obligations of lawyers in the handling of discovery of electronically stored information (ESI).  Most litigators already know that electronic discovery is the most important kind of discovery in big and small cases.  Learn from the best how this opinion effects your obligations under:

•  The duty of competence 
•   The duty to competently manage subordinates, contractors, and clients
•   The duty of confidentiality    

You will also learn how courts have already begun to use this opinion to determine spoliation sanctions.  

 

 

Faculty

 

Michael F. Kelleher, Moderator

Litigation Consultant, Cogent

 

Thomas Greene, Moderator

Thomas Greene is an officer and Core Skills chair for the California Bar’s Litigation Section.  He practices in federal court. 

 

Jerome Sapiro, Sapiro

Jerome Sapiro is the proprietor of the Sapiro Law Firm which handles a wide variety of business, estate planning and ethics matters.  He has been recognized as a Super Lawyer since 2005.  He is a former member of the California Bar’s Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct and served on the Bar’s Commission for the Revision of the Rules of Professional Conduct until 2014.  He is a former chair of the San Francisco Bar Association’s Legal Ethics Committee and a past chair of the California Bar’s Litigation Section. 

 

Cost

 

$45.00

 

 

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