ARCHIVED VIDEO STREAM
This is the archived version of a program presented on April 3, 2013. 

This program will address practical ethical issues that may confront both practicing and in-house counsel, such as:

• settling with an unrepresented claimant;
• when the unrepresented claimant obtains what you consider to be inadequate independent legal advice;
• when there is a conflict among parties that have retained the same lawyer;
• should a corporate director, subject to personal liability with the corporation, retain a lawyer different than the lawyer representing the corporation;
• ethical responsibilities when requested to provide ILA for a franchise sold in a different province or a different country;
• ethical responsibilities when representing a franchisee that obtains a disclosure document that is clearly deficient (e.g., missing a signed certificate) rendering it most-likely a non-disclosure; and
• ethical responsibilities when representing a franchisor that may have inserted documentation into its copy of the disclosure document after the rescission remedy is invoked.

The speakers will consider various franchise related fact scenarios from both a commercial and litigation perspective and will refer to the relevant provisions of both the Rules of Professional Conduct and the Law Society Act.

Chair:  
Tanya Walker, Walker Law Professional Corporation

Speakers:  
Ross Bain, Executive Vice President, Prime Restaurants.
Caterina Galati, Senior Competence Counsel, Law Society of Upper Canada
Ian Roher, Tepiltsky Colson LLP
John Sotos, Sotos LLP