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Focus |
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Remedies to address misconduct of pro hac vice counsel; Ethical consequences of outsourcing legal and nonlegal services; How to use special motion to strike to defend claims of “client stealing” and malicious prosecution; Whether lawyers should, by purchasing an assignment, become a real party in interest against a former client in same matter in which lawyer represented former client; When lawyer may not jointly represent closely held corporation and its majority shareholder; Preventing former client disqualification by dropping current client’s affirmative defense and discovery; Whether prosecutors will be disqualified for writing novel or collaborating on movie concerning cases they are prosecuting; Preventing “suspension” for failing to pay MFAA fee award; How to handle inadvertently disclosed attorney work product; Whether ruling of disqualification in underlying action is res judicata as to lawyer’s conflict of interest in legal malpractice action; Use of “coercion” exception to waiver of attorney-client privilege. |
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Panelists |
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Mark L. Tuft (Ret.) -- Cooper, White & Cooper |
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Ellen R. Peck -- Former Judge, State Bar Court |
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