Mission Statement: Firm Counsel Project

The mission of the Firm Counsel Project is to build a community of lawyers within law firms, corporate law departments, and other law offices who perform internal functions related to ethics, risk management, or loss prevention. The functions these lawyers may perform for their colleagues include:

• Serving on committees charged with ethics, risk management, or conflicts of interest resolution responsibilities for the organization;
• Giving ethics advice;
• Providing education about ethics and loss prevention issues;
• Handling malpractice liability claims and disciplinary matters and circumstances that may lead to them;
• Assisting in identifying, evaluating, preventing, or addressing conflicts of interest; and
• Assisting in client intake functions for the firm.

Building a successful community of lawyers doing this work requires opportunities to interact, allowing them to share ideas and approaches to these important functions. The Firm Counsel Project will create these opportunities, initially through three main avenues:

1. In-person discussion roundtables in cities across the country.
2. The Firm Counsel Project Listserv.
3. Focused programming at ABA Business Law Section and Center for Professional Responsibility meetings.

If you are interested in being a part of our community, or in helping us continue to build this effort, please Join the Firm Counsel Project by clicking on the link below and take a minute or two to provide us with some contact information so that we can keep you informed of upcoming events. The Firm Counsel Project Listserv is up and running! If you are an ABA member and would like to sign up for The Firm Counsel Project Listserv, a link is provided below for you to do so. If you would like to sign up for the Firm Counsel Project Listserv but are not an ABA member, there is also a link provided on this page that you can use to join the ABA (and while you are at it, there are also links through which you can join the Business Law Section and its Professional Conduct Committee).

More About Us: News and Upcoming Events

Our next set of in-person discussion roundtable events set to take place across the country during the end of October and beginning of November 2008. The topic for this set of roundtable events is taking advantage of the teachable moment presented by the Qualcomm proceedings/ Information about the participating cities, hosts, locations, and dates of these roundtables are set forth below:

Atlanta: Hosted by Karen B. Bragman at the offices of Arnall Golden Gregory LLP on November 5, 2008, at noon

Boston: Hosted by John L. Whitlock and Patrick J. Sharkey at the offices of Mintz Levin on November 5, 2008, at noon

Chicago: Hosted by Frederick R. Ball at the offices of Duane Morris LLP on November 5, 2008, at noon

Cincinnati: Hosted by Mark A. Vander Laan at the offices of Dinsmore & Shohl LLP on November 11, 2008, at noon

Cleveland: Hosted by Frank R. DeSantis at the offices of Thompson Hine LLP on November 10, 2008, at noon

Dallas: Hosted by Lewis T. LeClair at the offices of McKool Smith P.C. on November 19, 2008, at noon

Denver: Hosted by Marcy G. Glenn and Stephen G. Masciocchi at the offices of Holland & Hart LLP on November 5, 2008, at noon

Houston: Hosted by Charles Szalkowski at the offices of Baker Botts LLP on November 12, 2008, at 11:30 a.m.

Minneapolis: Hosted by Jeffrey J. Bouslog at the offices of Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP on October 22, 2008, at noon

Nashville: Hosted by John L. Chambers and Larry Stewart at the offices of Adams and Reese LLP on November 12, 2008, at noon

New Orleans: Hosted by James A. Brown at the offices of Liskow & Lewis on November 7, 2008, at noon

New York City: Hosted by Philip H. Schaeffer at the offices of White & Case LLP on November 12, 2008, at noon

Philadelphia: Hosted by Sarah M. Bricknell at the offices of Duane Morris LLP -- time and date TBA

Portland: Hosted by Peter Jarvis and Roy Pulvers at the offices of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP on November 10, 2008, at noon

Richmond: Hosted by Kelly L. Faglioni at the offices of Hunton & Williams on November 18, 2008, at noon

San Diego: Hosted by Edward J. McIntyre at the offices of Solomon Ward Seidenwurm and Smith on November 10, 2008, at noon

Seattle: Hosted by Karen Sutherland at the offices of Ogden Murphy Wallace PLLC on November 13, 2008, at noon

Tampa: Hosted by W. Donald Cox at the offices of Fowler White Boggs Banker -- time and date TBA

Washington, D.C.: Hosted by Michael S. Sundermeyer and George Clark at the offices of Williams & Connelly LLP on October 31, 2008, at noon

Firm Counsel Project Roundtable Materials

Firm Counsel Project Roundtable Materials

In-Person Discussion Roundtable Oct./Nov. 2009: Amicus Brief on Issue of In House Law Firm Privilege/"This is Privileged, Right" The Scope of the Privilege for Internal Firm Communications (3.2mb)

ABA National Conference Roundtable Materials

In-Person Discussion Roundtable April 2009: "Law Firms Are Businesses Too: The Role of Firm Counsel in Management Decisions and Internal Employment Practices."

In-Person Discussion Roundtable October/November 2008: How to Take Advantage of the Teachable Moment Presented by the Qualcomm Proceedings (3.7mb)

In-Person Discussion Roundtable, May 2008: "Not Every"Lawyer Dreams of Being a Novelist." (Lawyers Acting as Directors and Lawyers Acting as Expert Witnesses (4.8mb)

In-Person Discussion Roundtable January/February 2008: ("Ch- Ch- Ch- Ch- Changing Firms" (Lateral Lawyers and Lateral Hiring Issues) (9.4mb)

Upcoming National FCP Events

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