Litigation Ethics in Practice: How Ethical Issues Emerge in Everyday Cases
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About
This Course
Litigators at law firms face a variety of ethical challenges, including those related to discovery, patent litigation, and cases involving litigation funding. Attorneys must be equipped to address these complex and often difficult moral dilemmas.
This program will focus on identifying ethical issues and examining how lawyers have addressed them in practice. Participants will gain insights into how courts have handled these issues in past cases. Topics will include conflicts of interest, ethical responsibilities, and necessary disclosures.
Designed for attorneys at all experience levels, this course emphasizes the obligation for all lawyers to be prepared to manage ethical challenges effectively.
Learning Objectives:
- Explore positional conflicts of interest and ethical duties for navigating potential positional conflicts.
- Examine ethical duties for technology used in document discovery.
- List the ethical duties for proposing, negotiating, and complying with discovery protective orders.
- Analyze ethical duties of candor for ex parte proceedings, specifically emphasizing inequitable conduct before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
- Assess ethical duties for advising clients on litigation funding agreements.
- Review ethical duties for litigation financing cases, including litigation funders' disclosures.
Production Date: 4/25/2025 | Closed captioning (CC) available
About the Presenters
Jennifer Wu, Esq.
Groombridge, Wu, Baughman & Stone LLP
Practice Area: Trial (+ 1 other areas)
Jennifer H. Wu is a patent trial and appellate lawyer recognized for her “great advocacy skills at trials” and “outstanding work in cutting-edge biologics cases.” Jennifer has been widely recognized within the legal industry and the patent litigation bar for her achievements.She has been named to the IAM Patent 1000, Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America, and is ranked in both Chambers USA and The Legal 500 as a leading patent litigator. In 2024, she was named by Managing IP Stars among the Top 250 Women in Intellectual Property and included in the 2024 IP Stars list. Benchmark Litigation has ...
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Jenny Wu, Esq.
Groombridge, Wu, Baughman & Stone LLP
Practice Area: Patent (+ 1 other areas)
Jenny has been extensively involved in all aspects of patent litigation, representing both plaintiffs and defendants, including in trials before the International Trade Commission and various federal district courts and appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Most recently, Jenny was named to Lawdragon’s 2025 500 Leading Litigators in America list.She has litigated patents in a wide variety of technical areas, including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, mobile phone operating systems and software, online content management, web services, GPS devices, LEDs, digital imaging, wearable fitness, computer animation, and financial services. She has also supervised multiple high-stakes investigations ...
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Peter Sandel, Esq.
Groombridge, Wu, Baughman & Stone LLP
Practice Area: Patent (+ 1 other areas)
Peter represents pioneering pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in all stages of patent litigation, including trials and appeals.He has litigated complex patent disputes in a wide array of areas, including foundational antibody technology, transgenic animal models, pharmaceutical manufacturing, chromatography, DNA sequencing, novel treatments for life-threatening diseases, and biosimilar challenges under the BPCIA. Peter has also litigated patents regarding internet technologies, semiconductors, and LEDs.Peter received his J.D. from New York University. He also received a Ph.D. in Immunology from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Biology and Philosophy from Reed College.
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Stephen Maniscalco, Esq.
Groombridge, Wu, Baughman & Stone LLP
Practice Area: Patent (+ 1 other areas)
Stephen tries patent cases in federal district courts and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). He also represents clients in appeals at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and Supreme Court. His experience includes litigating patent disputes involving biologics (including BPCIA litigation), chromatography, medical devices, semiconductor memory devices, and internet-of-things technology.Stephen clerked for Judge Paul G. Feinman at the New York State Court of Appeals. Stephen received his J.D. magna cum laude from St. John’s University School of Law and his Bachelor of Engineering summa cum laude from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science ...
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