Jeffrey S. Poretz

Please join Miles & Stockbridge and Legal Services of Northern Virginia for an evening charity golf tournament at Topgolf Loudoun on May 9. The event will feature 2.0 hours of Ethics CLE, great food and drink, prizes, and networking opportunities with local professionals. All skill levels are welcome! Golf Pro Yong Joo will be at the event to provide informal lessons and tips to participants or you can participate in a “challenge the pro” contest.

LAW FIRM CHALLENGE: Compete for recognition with colleagues from your firm or GC office on the “Topgolf for the Troops” Cup! The Cup is currently in the possession of last year's winner Wilson Elser. This year's winner will take the Cup and house it until 2025’s event. We hope you can join us!

The Ethics CLE will be presented by Tom Spahn from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. and will cover:

Electronic Era Ethics

This interactive program uses hypotheticals to highlight the dramatic effect email, texts and other electronic communications have had on lawyers’ ethics duties.  The program generally follows the lifespan of an attorney-client relationship, including:  creation of the relationship (such as the effect of an unsolicited email from a would-be client); the ethical propriety of electronic communications with clients (especially lawyers who practice “virtually”); communications with adversaries (including “reply all” emails, lawyers’ response to inadvertently transmitted communications, and metadata); dealing with third parties (such as service providers and outsourced colleagues); discovery (such as accessing adverse witnesses’ social media); jurors’ research and communications; judges’ research and “friending” of lawyers; attorney-client relationships’ termination.