Seminars

Corporate Counsel Series: Ethics 2025

February 20, 2025

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM (Lunch is included and will be available beginning at 11:00 AM.)
Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center
1701 SW Jewell Ave., Topeka, KS 66621
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Foulston's popular annual ethics seminar has been developed specifically for corporate counsel with the goal of assisting you in your responsibility to provide high-quality legal guidance to your organization. Join us in Topeka for our ethics seminar on Thursday, February 20.

We are pleased to offer our Corporate Counsel Series on ethics and other relevant topics in Wichita, Topeka, and Kansas City throughout the year. If you are unable to join us for this ethics session, please check back on our Seminars page for a Kansas City date in the spring and a Wichita date in the fall.

Registration

RSVP to attend this year's seminar at this link. This is a FREE seminar for corporate and government counsel. Enrollment is not available for attorneys in private practice without prior approval. Register early, limited space is available.

Certification

This program will be submitted for preapproval for 2.0 hours of ethics CLE credit for attorneys in Kansas and Missouri.

Presenters

Foulston attorneys Jeremy Graber, Jake Holly, and Teresa Shulda.

Topics

Emerging Ethical Challenges in AI, DEI, and Cybersecurity

This session will tackle a trifecta of emerging issues, exploring the ethical challenges of cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI):

AI: In follow-up to last year’s ethics seminar, AI in the workplace remains an evolving area with legal risks and a duty to balance innovation with ethical considerations, including client confidentiality and communication with clients about the use of AI. We will explore best practices for responsible AI in legal practice.

DEI: Last year we discussed the USSC decision in Students for Fair Admissions, which struck down affirmative action in higher education admissions, and how that decision might impact corporate DEI programs. This year, we’ll update you on recent cases and trends impacting such programs, and how companies are walking the tightrope of valuing diversity and inclusion while ensuring they don’t become the target of reverse discrimination claims.

Cybersecurity: In a world where cyberattacks and data loss are discussed in terms of “when” and not “if,” this portion of the presentation will address a lawyer’s ethical and legal obligations to take competent and reasonable measures to safeguard client information and duty to protect confidential information.

Rules: KRPC 1.1 Competence; KRPC 1.2 Scope of Representation; KRPC 1.4 Communication; KRPC 1.6 Confidentiality; KRPC 1.15 Safekeeping Property; KRPC 5.3 Nonlawyer Assistance; KRPC 8.4 Misconduct; ABA Model Rule 8.4 Misconduct

The First Rule of Ethics Is We DO Talk About Ethics*

You remember 1999, a year full of blue pills*, red staplers*, green miles*, and seeing dead people*. This presentation will review recent ethics developments and decisions through the lens of films from that legendary cinematic year. Rules and opinions which may be covered include:

Rules: ABA Formal Opinion 511; ABA Formal Opinion 513; KRPC 1.1 Competence; KRPC 1.6 Confidentiality; KRPC 1.16; KRPC 8.4 Misconduct; Pillars of Professionalism

* Fight Club, The Matrix, Office Space, The Green Mile, Sixth Sense