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Deceptive Investigative Techniques: Civil and Criminal Contexts
Webinar
Deceptive Investigative Techniques: Civil and Criminal Contexts
Start
01/09/2024 - 5:30 PM
End
01/09/2024 - 8:00 PM
COURSE DETAILS
The Rules of Professional Conduct proclaim that lawyers should never resort to “conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation.” The rules further provide that a lawyer may not instruct others to engage in conduct that is ethically forbidden to lawyers. But criminal prosecutors routinely supervise undercover agents who misrepresent their identities. And a 2007 Ethics Opinion by the NYCLA Committee on Professional Ethics carves out two subject matters in which a certain level of “pretexting” is considered necessary and acceptable. These subject matters are intellectual property and civil rights investigations.
But does it make sense to permit misrepresentations in some areas of the law and not others? And why should prosecutors be given ethical leeway that is denied to defense lawyers in the same cases? It is difficult to navigate the ethical boundaries of permissible pretexting.
This panel of practitioners and law professors will provide a lively, interactive discussion of this challenging and evolving area of the law.
FACULTY
Catherine Foti, Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello PC; James Kobak, Jr., Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP; Barry Temkin, Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass LLP; Ellen Yaroshefsky, Hofstra University School of Law
Program Co-sponsor: NYCLA Professionalism and Professional Discipline Committee
Moderator: Bari Chase, Esq., Director, NYCLA CLE Institute and Programs
CLE CREDITS
3 NY Credits: 1.5 Ethics, 1.5 Skills, Transitional and Non-transitional; 3 NJ Credits: 1 Ethics; 2 General
GENERAL INFORMATION
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