This panel will analyze the ethics issues involved in prosecutorial decisionmaking, including the standard to be used in deciding whether to file a complaint or indictment, the limits of pre-trial publicity, the subpoenaing of lawyers' records, the relationship of the prosecutor's fairness and doing justice duties, and bar discipline's role in setting standards. The panelists will discuss current cases and verdicts against lawyers in the patent arena for conflict rule violations, as well as how they identify and manage conflicts within their firms. The hourly billing system has been attacked as leading directly to excessive fees and unethical behavior. This panel will assess the extent to which one billing system can be said to be ethically preferable to others. The reception will include cocktails and hors d'oeuvres.
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Sponsored by the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility Membership Program . Plenary Session Multijurisdictional Practice Panelists will discuss potential changes to the ethics rules and the practice of law based upon the work of the ABA Commission on Multijurisdictional Practice. This panel will discuss how bar counsel and courts rate the seriousness of ethics violations and try to develop consistent disciplinary sanctions related to particular circumstances and the role, if any, of the ABA Standards for Imposing Lawyer Sanctions in deciding appropriate sanctions. A discussion of the pros and cons of different types of professionalism peer review programs being run by bar associations and courts. Jonathan D. Gerber , Mark I. Harrison , Hon.