Navigating Multistate Ethical Dilemmas in Law Practice: Ensuring compliance and integrity across borders

Amber Bevacqua-Lynott
Amber Bevacqua-Lynott | Buchalter

Amber Bevacqua-Lynott is Senior Counsel in the Firm’s Portland and San Diego offices, and a member of the Firm’s Professional Responsibility and Litigation Practice Groups.

On-Demand: March 29, 2024

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Program Summary

This event offers an overview of the ethical landscape faced by federal practitioners navigating the legal terrain across multiple states. The paramount importance of upholding ethical standards amidst jurisdictional diversity sets the tone to start the presentation. Delving deeper, the program will dissect the nuances of ethical issues surrounding multistate practice explaining some of the potential implications for legal professionals, including the ethical principles and rules governing attorney conduct across state boundaries. The focus will then shift to a more practical approach with case studies guiding the discussion and analysis. Through these real-world scenarios, participants will confront and dissect ethical dilemmas inherent in multistate legal practice, to better recognize conflicting laws and navigate jurisdictional challenges. Finally, the course will explore the intersection of technology and ethics in cross-border practice, addressing concerns surrounding data privacy, security compliance, and the ethical implications of technological advancements in the multistate legal arena.

This course is co-sponsored with myLawCLE.

Key topics to be discussed:

  • Multistate Practice for Federal Practitioners
  • Understanding Multistate Practice Ethics
  • Analyzing Multistate Ethical Dilemmas Through Case Studies
  • Technology, Ethics, and Cross-Border Practice

Closed-captioning available

Speakers

Amber Bevacqua-Lynott_FedBarAmber Bevacqua-Lynott | Buchalter

Amber Bevacqua-Lynott is Senior Counsel in the Firm’s Portland and San Diego offices, and a member of the Firm’s Professional Responsibility and Litigation Practice Groups. Ms. Bevacqua-Lynott provides guidance and legal representation to attorneys, licensed professionals, and other business clients, including firms and in-house legal departments. Her practice centers on legal ethics, risk management, and discipline defense. She acts as outside counsel to clients in a variety of industries, providing advice and counsel on all manner of ethics issues, including conflicts, confidentiality, malpractice, risk management, and fee issues.

In addition, Ms. Bevacqua-Lynott represents lawyers, students, and other professionals in front of regulatory authorities and bar associations on licensing, admissions, reinstatement, reciprocity, character and fitness, consumer protection, unauthorized practice of law, and disciplinary matters.

Ms. Bevacqua-Lynott has more than 20 years of legal experience, including extensive civil trial experience. Prior to joining Buchalter, Ms. Bevacqua-Lynott worked in the Oregon State Bar’s Disciplinary Counsel’s Office (DCO) as an Assistant Disciplinary Counsel, where she enforced the Oregon Rules of Professional Conduct through the investigation and prosecution of alleged misconduct. During her time in DCO, Ms. Bevacqua-Lynott successfully first-chaired several dozen civil trials and investigated or prosecuted hundreds of disciplinary matters. The last six years of her tenure with DCO, she was the Chief Assistant Disciplinary Counsel and Deputy Director of Regulatory Services and acted as Chief Trial Counsel.

Ms. Bevacqua-Lynott’s prior experience as a Bar prosecutor, offers her clients a unique insight and expertise on ethics issues and professional obligations. Intimately versed in legal ethics, Ms. Bevacqua-Lynott developed, updated, and presented Legal Ethics Best Practices, a semi-annual “ethics school” for attorneys. She also prepared and edited the annual annotations of all Bar formal proceeding dispositions, requiring that she be expertly familiar with each stipulated and adjudicated case result.

She regularly presents seminars on ethics issues, both locally and nationally, and frequently provides ethics advice to attorneys.

Agenda

I. Multistate Practice for Federal Practitioners | 1:00pm – 1:20pm

  • The complex ethical considerations in practicing law across multiple states for federal practitioners
  • The importance of upholding ethical standards while navigating jurisdictional differences

II. Understanding Multistate Practice Ethics | 1:20pm – 1:40pm

  • Defining multistate practice and its implications for legal professionals
  • Exploring the ethical principles and rules that govern attorneys’ conduct across state lines

III. Analyzing Multistate Ethical Dilemmas Through Case Studies | 1:40pm – 2:00pm

  • Presenting real-world scenarios and case studies illustrating ethical challenges in multistate legal practice
  • Encouraging participants to apply ethical principles and rules to analyze and resolve these dilemmas, including conflict of laws and jurisdictional challenges

Break | 2:00pm – 2:10pm

IV. Technology, Ethics, and Cross-Border Practice | 2:10pm – 2:40pm

  • Ethical Implications of Technology in Multistate Practice
  • Data Privacy and Security Compliance
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