Lawyers in the Crosshairs: The New Legal and Ethical Duties of Corporate Attorneys. Panel 2

October 13, 2006
Presented by: Center for Business Law & Regulation

Summary: Gatekeeping by Contract: Policing Corporate Misconduct by Voluntary Agreement
2006 George A. Leet Business Law Symposium

Geoffrey P. Miller, Stuyvesant P. Comfort Professor of Law, Director, Center for the Study of Central Banks, New York University School of Law
Commentators:
Joseph W. Bauer, Esq., VP and General Counsel, The Lubrizol Corporation
Robert C. Hockett, Assistant Professor, Cornell Law School

New laws impose novel burdens on corporate lawyers to report possible legal problems up the corporate chain of command and in some cases to withdraw from representing a client and divulge evidence of client misdeeds. These new duties seem to clash with the traditional notion that lawyers owe an overriding duty to the client. This Symposium will discuss what the new law is, where it is headed, and how attorneys can best satisfy their legal obligations while serving the interests of the client.

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