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New Jersey Intellectual Property Law Association (NJIPLA)

NJIPLA & NYIPLA Joint Program: Ethics Issues in IP Practice

  • 12/08/2016
  • 11:30 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Renaissance Woodbridge, 515 US Highway Route 1 South, Iselin NJ 08830

This seminar is devoted to ethical issues arising in IP law presented by an exciting slate of speakers. Earn ethics credits just in time for the end of the year CLE certifications.

Total of 4.5 CLE credits for New York and New Jersey.
Total of 4 CLE credits for Pennsylvania.
 

Agenda

11.30 AM – 12:00 PM
Registration

12:00 PM – 12.45 PM
Lunch

12.45 PM – 1.45 PM 
Candor, Disclosure & OED
William Covey, Deputy General Counsel for Enrollment and Discipline

1.45 PM – 2.45 PM 
Cases in Negotiation Ethics
Cases and Ethical Rules Relating To:

  • Candor and Deceit in Negotiation
  • Communicating With Adverse Clients
  • Cross-Border Negotiations
David Rabinowitz, Moses & Singer

2:45 PM – 3:00 PM 
Refreshment Break

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Conflicts of Interest in Patent Litigation, Opinion Practice, and Prosecution
Professor David Hricik, Professor of Law, Mercer Law School

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM  
Contracting Away Legal Ethics: The Battle between Law Firm Engagement Letters and Outside Counsel Guidelines – What’s Left of the Rules of Professional Conduct?

Once upon a time, in a faraway land, it was generally believed (and maybe it was true?) that lawyers had complete control over the terms of the relationships with their clients.  But in today's world - at least where corporate clients are concerned - that belief is utterly belied by the reality that corporate clients and not lawyers define and control every aspect of the attorney-client relationship. And it's not just about fee and billing arrangements - how the client is defined (corporate families), what constitutes a "conflict" (and when - if ever - they will be waived), demands for indemnification, "most favored nation" clauses, choice of ethics rules, selection and oversight of vendors and outsource service providers, are just some of the areas that clients seek to dictate the terms of the relationship to their outside counsel.  This presentation will address the ways in which these and other outside counsel guidelines present both ethical dilemmas and other risks to law firms and their clients – and what (if anything) law firms can – and in some instances, should – and what both law firms and their clients should do to make the terms of their relationships operate on a more fair and-even handed basis, and for their mutual benefit.

Anthony Davis, Hinshaw Culbertson