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  Attorney-Client Privilege:  Nine Things That Boards Need to Know

Wednesday, April 18, 2012
2pm EDT/11 am PDT

1 NY CLE credit for Experienced Attorneys in Areas of Professional Practice*

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Officers and Directors need a clear understanding of the attorney-client privilege.  To protect the privilege and prevent unintended disclosures of sensitive legal advice and attorney work-product, it is important for directors to understand issues such as how and when the attorney-client privilege and the work product doctrine apply in the corporate context; who may assert and/or waive the privilege on a corporation's behalf; and when internal investigation reports and other "work product" generated by an investigation are, and are not, privileged.

In this 60 minute free webinar, Jonathan S. Sack and Judith L. Mogul, partners from one of the nation's premier litigation firms, Morvillo,  Abramowitz,  Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, P.C., and Wayne P. Yetter, a former CEO and currently a corporate director on multiple boards, will discuss and offer answers to the following questions to help navigate this sometimes confusing landscape:

1. What is the attorney-client privilege?
2. How does the attorney-client privilege apply to corporations?
3. What communications does the attorney-client privilege protect?
4. Who may assert and waive a corporation’s privilege?
5. Can a corporation cooperate with a government investigation without waiving the attorney-client privilege?
6. Does the attorney-client privilege or the work product doctrine protect internal investigation reports?
7. Are there circumstances under which internal investigation reports must be disclosed to shareholders or other constituencies?
8. Does the attorney-client privilege apply outside the United States?
9. How can boards protect communications between in-house counsel and employees outside the United States?

Join Wayne Yetter, Judith L. Mogul, Jonathan S. Sack,  and Directors & Boards' David Shaw on April 18, 2012 at 2pm EDT.

This webinar is for any public or private board member, senior corporate executive, corporate governance officer, corporate counsel, or board advisor interested in better understanding board portals and their applications for supporting board communications and executive team collaboration.

*An application for continuing legal education accreditation of this course or program in New York is currently pending.
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Speakers


Wayne P. Yetter served as Chief Executive Officer of Verispan LLC, a joint venture of McKesson Corp. and Quintiles Transnational, a leading provider of healthcare information and marketing services to the pharmaceutical industry, from September 2005 to August 2008 when the company was acquired by SDI Health.  Mr. Yetter currently Chairman of the Board of NuPathe Inc. and also serves as a director of EpiCept Corporation, InfuSystem Holdings, Inc. and SDIX.  Previously he served as Chairman of Noven Pharmaceuticals, Chairman of Transkaryotic Therapies, and Lead Independent Director of Matria Healthcare (each of these companies was acquired) and a director of Synvista Therapeutics.

Judith L. Mogul is a partner at Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, P.C.  She is a civil litigator who handles complex commercial litigation for individual and corporate clients in state and federal court, at the trial and appellate levels.  Ms. Mogul has extensive experience defending individuals in internal investigations, securities class actions and related regulatory proceedings.  She also regularly represents individuals and companies in a broad variety of commercial matters involving employment, partnership, contract, unfair competition, real estate, tax, and insurance disputes. Ms. Mogul served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Civil Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.  She writes extensively on issues relating to litigation and is co-author of a regular column for the New York Law Journal on civil practice in the Southern District of New York.   

Jonathan S. Sack is a partner at Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, P.C. He has extensive experience litigating complex civil and criminal cases. Mr. Sack represents individuals and companies in federal and state criminal, civil and regulatory matters and conducts internal investigations.  Before joining Morvillo Abramowitz in 2003, he served as Chief of the Criminal Division for the Eastern District of New York where he oversaw investigations and prosecutions conducted by more than one hundred Criminal Division Assistant U.S. Attorneys in all areas of federal criminal law.  Mr. Sack is co-author of the revised edition of Federal Corporate Sentencing: Compliance and Mitigation (Law Journal Seminars Press), a leading treatise in the fields of corporate sentencing and compliance. He is an Adjunct Professor of Law at St. John’s University School of Law, where he teaches a course in white-collar crime, and regularly publishes articles and speaks on issues relating to the representation of companies and individuals in criminal, regulatory and internal investigations.

David Shaw is the publishing director  of  Directors & Boards, the only major independently-owned journal of corporate governance thought leadership in North America.  With more than 30 years of experience in business-to-business and consumer media markets, he has served as an editor, publisher, publishing director, group publisher and group vice president of a variety of publications, trade shows, conferences and websites.  He has served as a director for several privately-held companies.
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Benefits
  • 60 minutes--maximum value for time
  • Completely free to attend
  • Time for questions and comments
  • All participants receive a copy of the webinar materials after the event
  • Unbiased third party director education

This free webinar is brought to you through the sponsorship of Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, P.C and Directors & Boards.