What are the do's and don'ts for lawyers making lateral jumps from one firm to another? Sarah McShea, legal ethics guru, reveals the hidden dangers and breaks down the ethics minefield in conflicts, communications with client, fiduciary duties to the law firm, and more.

Sarah McShea is an experienced New York ethics attorney who advises lawyers and law firms on a wide range of professional responsibility issues, including disciplinary defense, disqualification and sanctions litigation, risk management for law firms, law firms disputes and dissolutions, and bar admission proceedings. From 1980 to 1989, she served as the staff counsel and then as Deputy Chief Counsel for the Departmental Disciplinary Committee, First Department, and then as the chief of the Public Corruption Bureau of the Kings County District Attorney’s Office from 1990 to 1993. She was an adjunct professor at Brooklyn Law School from 2001 to 2007 and has been on the editorial board of the ABA/BNA Lawyers’ Manual on Professional Conduct since 1994.

(Credits: 0.5 Legal Ethics MCLE)