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Duane Morris Partners Rebecca Lamberth and Patrick Matusky to Speak at the ABA's Fall 2009 National Legal Malpractice Conference
September 24, 2009 | Chicago
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Duane Morris partners Rebecca M. Lamberth and Patrick Matusky will be speaking at the American Bar Association's (ABA) Fall 2009 National Legal Malpractice Conference: Identifying Risk in a Changing Law Firm Landscape, to be held on September 23-25, 2009, in Chicago, Illinois.
Ms. Lamberth and Mr. Matusky will participate in a breakout session titled "Firm Counsel Project Roundtable—'This is Privileged, Right?' The Scope of the Privilege for Internal Firm Communications," which will take place on Thursday, September 24, from 1:15 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. The goal of the ABA Business Law Section's Firm Counsel Project is to build a community of lawyers within law firms, corporate law departments and other law offices who perform internal functions related to ethics, risk management or loss prevention. This session will focus on the scope of the privilege for internal firm communications.
About the ABA's Fall 2009 National Legal Malpractice Conference
This conference, presented by the ABA Standing Committee on Lawyers' Professional Liability, will discuss the following topics:
- Fee-agreement provisions that reduce lawyers' exposure
- Corporations' new "value" approach to attorney's fees structures
- How corporate bankruptcies create exposure risks for outside counsel
- The pluses and minuses of "unbundled" legal services
- An examination of the specific lawyer activities most likely to attract malpractice claims
- How the risk environment has evolved in a significantly changed law firm landscape
- Re-assessing firm case files for risk in a tough economy
- Building a durable claims manager–defense counsel relationship
- The rise and repercussions of major court sanctions
- A mediation demonstration
- Firm-counsel roundtable on the scope of the privilege for intra-firm communications
For more information or to register to attend the conference, please visit the ABA website.
