Quarles' Annual Legal Ethics Seminar 2024 Program Webinar Replay
Please join Quarles for a CLE-eligible replay of our 2024 year-end Legal Ethics Seminar featuring two, hour-long ethics CLE presentations.
Our 2024 program considered legal ethics in relation to the following topics:
- Ethical Traps For In-House Counsel in Advising on Executive Compensation and Benefits
Presented by: Sarah Sise and Lauren Schuster
ERISA recognizes plans as separate legal entities from their plan sponsors, and employees of the sponsoring employer typically serve as the plan fiduciaries. Identifying the client and potential conflicts, and preserving confidentiality and the attorney-client privilege with your client(s) when addressing ERISA issues, can be challenging for a variety of reasons, including the fiduciary exemption recognized in many jurisdictions. This session will discuss common situations and tactics for structuring engagements, avoiding conflicts and delivering advice to preserve confidentiality when possible. In addition, providing legal advice on executive compensation also involves inherent conflicts. This session will talk through potential conflicts and challenges with identifying the client and will address practical ways to provide expert advice while complying with ethical rules.
- Legal Ethics Challenges for GCs as Businesses Move to Generative AI
Presented by: Jack Cook, Lucy Dollens, Meghan O’Connor and John O’Neal
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being used widely in law and business, presenting new legal and ethical challenges that evolve as quickly as the technology. This session will focus on the ethical implications and challenges in-house counsel will face as AI becomes more prevalent in the practice of law and as in-house counsel advise on employee creations using AI, protecting customer and employee data in an environment using AI, and managing contractors and vendors that use AI.
Advance registration is required.
Continuing Legal Education:
All are welcome to attend our 2024 program replay but CLE credit will only be available for those who did not already receive credit for attending Quarles' 2024 Ethics Seminar live or via an earlier webinar replay.
This program is eligible for up to 2.0 hours of ethics CLE credit in 60-minute states and 2.4 hours of CLE credit in 50-minute states. Credit hours are subject to each state’s approval and credit rounding rules. Quarles certifies that this activity is approved for California Participatory MCLE credits by the State Bar of California in the amount of up to 2.0 general credits. Quarles is a State Bar of California MCLE approved provider.
Updated CLE Attendance Verification Procedures:
We have updated procedures for tracking attendance for CLE credit. They include:
- You must be logged in, participating from your own device, and need to actively watch the entire webinar.
- Please watch for pop-up polls (with audio notification) that will appear at several random times during the webinar. You must click on the pop-up polls to verify your attendance.
- Regulators require attendance to be verified, and this procedure meets that requirement.
How to Request CLE Credit:
If you meet the participation requirements above, you will receive a personalized CLE affidavit from mcle‑quarles@americanbar.org within a few days of the webinar with instructions for receiving your Certificate of Attendance.
Once you complete the affidavit, you will be able to download your certificate(s) of attendance and they will be emailed to you from mcle‑quarles@americanbar.org.
Please add the email address mcle‑quarles@americanbar.org to your contacts or request that your IT Department add this address to their whitelist to avoid having your certificates of attendance caught in spam.
When Will I Get My Certificate of Attendance?
Generally, you will receive your certificate within a week of submitting your information to the ABA.
CLE Questions?
If you have questions about the certificate you received (or did not receive) for a program that occurs in April of 2024 or later, please contact the ABA at mcle‑quarles@americanbar.org.
If you have a question about a previous event or need to speak with the Quarles CLE team, please send us an email at QBCLETeam@quarles.com.
General Questions?
Please contact Alexa Curto and Lauren Klika, events@quarles.com.