Professionalism/Substance Abuse/Ethics
Attorney-Client Privilege Under New Federal Evidence Rule 502 — 4.25 Ohio Ethics Credits

This 4.25-hour December 14, 2009 program by Michael J. Hutter, Professor of Law at Albany Law School, gives you a comprehensive discussion of the extremely important new Federal Rule of Evidence 502, which was signed into law in September, 2008. Professor Hutter discusses significant emerging and related issues, points out potential ethics problems, provides useful suggestions and much more.

Topics include:

• Elements Of The Privilege

• Exceptions

• Procedural Matters

• Waiver Generally

• Application And Scope Of Rule 502

• Rule 502(a): Intentional Disclosure And Subject Matter Waiver

• Rule 502(b): Inadvertent Disclosure And Privilege Waiver

• Rule 502(d)-(e): Party Non-Waiver Agreements

• Selective Waiver

• Public Filing

• Use Of The Privileged Communication

• In Issue

• Employee's Use Of Employer's Computer

• Email Communications

• Inadvertent Disclosure

• Metadata

The first 3.3 hours of this talk are contained in our shorter, 4-NY CLE Credit program entitled Attorney-Client Privilege Under New Federal Evidence Rule 502 – 4-Credit NY Ethics Edition. You may complete EITHER course to earn NY CLE credit, but may NOT earn credit for both.