Legal Ethics: Preserving Attorney-Client Privilege
This important legal ethics session focuses on how the mortgage industry can use the attorney-client privilege and work product immunity in navigating through our highly regulated landscape. The panel explores the nature and scope of the attorney-client privilege; how it is created and preserved; how it can be abused and lost; and how to speak with in-house and outside counsel to investigate, strategize, and defend the company. Panelists also focus on work-product immunity, including how it arises; when it may be asserted; and how it is created, used, and preserved. Current events and a hypothetical data incident are used to illustrate themes. Earn two CLE ethics hours by attending this compelling session.
Speakers
Introductions
Julie Kind is the Director of Program Management, overseeing the development of compelling content for a variety of MBA’s member conferences. Before joining MBA, she was the Director of Marketing and Customer Outreach for Freddie Mac’s Single-Family division where she managed a large portfolio of conferences, advisory groups, committee meetings, and outreach and educational forums for 1200+ depositories, credit unions and independent mortgage banks. Kind’s prior experience also includes serving as the Vice President of Client Services for Paladin Life Care, an advocacy and life care consulting company serving a diverse, at-risk client base with financial management, housing, emotional stability, living conditions and health crisis remediation.
Speakers
Dan Plunkett advises clients facing challenging issues and regulatory scrutiny. As Co-Chair of the firm’s Government and Internal Investigations team, Plunkett helps financial services companies and other clients embroiled in ethics charges, criminal proceedings, and regulatory proceedings. He has prepared and represented witnesses in proceedings before Congress and regulatory agencies. As a litigator, he represents clients in often-complex matters, including False Claims Act cases, and defends companies and institutions in consumer finance matters and class actions.
Sanford “Sandy” Shatz is Of Counsel and a member of the Commercial Litigation and Consumer Financial Services practice groups. Based in our Irvine offices, he has been a licensed attorney in California for 30 years, and has litigated cases involving commercial law, real estate, and consumer financial services, focusing on mortgage-related issues, and offered regulatory and compliance advice to clients throughout the country. In 1998, he joined Countrywide Home Loans where he organized and established that company’s California In-House Litigation Group. Sandy focused on mortgage-related litigation and has tried numerous cases to verdict.
