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ABA
Joint Committee on Employee Benefits
The Sections of Business Law, Health Law, Labor and Employment
Law,
Real Property, Probate and Trust Law, Taxation and Tort Trial
and Insurance Practice
and The American College of Employee Benefits Counsel Present
Sarbanes-Oxley Ethics Rules:
Impact on Benefits Lawyers
A 90-minute Teleconference
Thursday, February
27, 2003
1:00-2:30 pm ET / 12:00-1:30 pm CT / 11:00 am-12:30 pm MT / 10:00 am-11:30 am PT
This program has
already taken place.
Audiotapes are available for $150.
For ordering information, contact Nancy Matthews at matthewsn@staff.abanet.org
or (202) 662-8640.
Ref. #JCEBT030227SOEA
A panel of experienced practitioners will
examine the potential exposure of attorneys who assist employers
in the design and development of certain qualified employer
stock plans and executive compensation programs in light of
the new final rules adopted by the Securities and Exchange
Commission to regulate professional conduct of lawyers appearing
and practicing before the Commission. The program will address
the requests of the new SEC professional conduct rules as
they affect employee benefits practitioners and the ethical
law underpinnings of the new SEC rules that affect all benefits
lawyers.
Topics Include:
- Who is subject to the new rules?
- Who is the client and how to deal with potential
conflicts of interest involving representing the company
and executing EE reliance on counsel's advice?
- What obligations do the new rules trigger?
- What compliance systems should in-house and outside
law firms adopt?
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- What liability exposure will benefits lawyers face?
- When are withdrawal and reporting out required under
the proposed rules and existing ethical standards?
- What corporate governance systems should be put
in place involving development and approval of compensation
and benefits programs?
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Moderator
Diane J. Fuchs, Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice,
PLLC, Washington, DC
Speakers
Joseph A. Cialone, II, Baker Botts LLP, Houston, TX
William Freivogel, Aon Risk Services, Inc., Chicago,
IL
Timothy N. McGarey, General Counsel's Office, U.S.
Securities and
Exchange Commission, Washington, DC
Susan P. Serota, Pillsbury Winthrop LLP, New York,
NY
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