If you are an immigration lawyer, or a lawyer whose practice requires you to cross the border, this is a program you cannot afford to miss.  How do you  answer questions at the border while ensuring you are keeping your clients’ sensitive information confidential?  What does your ethical duty require you to say/not to say? 

• What you can and cannot say, at the Canada US border concerning your client's name and confidential information when asked by immigration officials?
• Are you breaching confidentiality by disclosing your client's name?
• Can immigration officials examine your computer? Can you refuse?
• Representing a client and organization in the immigration context : What should you do when conflicts arise?
• Is withholding client information at the border a material misrepresentation?
• What can lawyers do when they have secrets when crossing the border?  Client information?  Personal information?  Economic information?  Employee information?
• Rule 2.03 of Professional Conduct: Confidentiality: 'A lawyer at all times shall hold in strict confidence all information concerning the business and affairs of the client acquired in the course of the professional relationship and shall not divulge any such information unless expressly or impliedly authorized by the client or required by law to do so.'
• How does this impact what cannot be said to border officials?

PROGRAM CHAIR AND MODERATOR

Joel Guberman, Guberman Garson Immigration Lawyers

SPEAKERS

Heather Segal, Guberman Garson Immigration Lawyers
Allan Wells, Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt LLP