Professional ethics and liability attorneys Erin Higgins and Michael Rossi from Conn Kavanaugh in Boston will talk about some of the important new legal issues currently affecting the profession and leading to claims against lawyers. Key topics to be discussed: The growing trend of allowing non-lawyers to own interests in law firms, and what the “regulatory sandbox” means for lawyers across the country The rise of “aiding and abetting” claims brought by non-clients, how to avoid them, and how to defend against them once they are brought The prevalence of remote work, and the exposure that remote work presents to lawyers who are charged with supervising the other lawyers with whom they work The current focus is on lawyers who have been charged with filing frivolous lawsuits challenging election results, and how to balance a lawyer’s duty to advocate for clients with the lawyer’s duty to investigate under Fed. R. Civ. P. 11