Join the Professionalism & Ethics Section for a panel on Internal and External Investigations. The following topics will be discussed: 

Background / Context 

• Role/responsibilities can impact ethical responsibilities 
• In-house counsel charged with overseeing investigations 
• Outside counsel tasked with conducting a privileged investigations 
• Outside counsel engaged to conduct neutral investigations 
• Overview of MN Rules of Professional Responsibility implicated by investigations 

Client considerations and scope of representation 

• Corporate entity 
• Officers/directors/managers 
• Conflict considerations, conflict waivers 
• Engagement of separate counsel for "constituents" 
• Joint defense agreements 

Privilege and Work Product Issues 

• Maintenance of privilege 
• Waiver of privilege 
• Unintentional 
• Intentional, i.e., to establish cooperation in a compliance investigation 

Interacting with witnesses 

• Represented parties 
• Unrepresented parties 
• Disclosure obligations, including Upjohn warnings 
• Duty of candor, etc. 

Document preservation and litigation holds 

Disclosing misconduct / illegality