2025 PPA July CLE - Electronic Era Ethics

Tom Spahn, Esq. is back by popular demand to present another Ethics CLE this month on 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.

Attorney Spahn presented a well attended and much enjoyed ethics seminar to the PPA in November 2024 with his seminar titled "Ethics - Basic Guide for Paralegals".  Attorney Spahn hails from McLean, Virginia and speaks regularly on legal ethics and a myriad of other topics. 

PPA members may attend for FREE.

The fee for non-members is now $20.00.

This CLE is approved for 1 hour of Ethics by NALA.  CLE approval by NFPA and Keystone Alliance is pending.