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  • videocam Live Online with Live Q&A
  • calendar_month December 15, 2025 @ 1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT
  • signal_cellular_alt Intermediate
  • card_travel Ethics and Specialty Credits
  • schedule 90 minutes

Legal Ethics for ERISA and Executive Compensation Counsel

$197.00

This course is $0 with these passes:

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About the Course

Introduction

This CLE webinar will provide ERISA and executive compensation attorneys with an in-depth analysis of key ethical challenges in employee benefits and compensation structuring, implementation, and administration, and provide practical tools for navigating these issues in their practice.

Description

ERISA, benefits, and executive compensation counsel face complex ethical issues in representing various companies, administrators, and fiduciaries. Factors such as the dual roles and interlocks that characterize the practice pose distinct ethical challenges for attorneys.

Key ethical concerns include conflicts of interest, especially when representing multiple parties, and communications with outside or in-house counsel, and fiduciaries. Other significant ethical issues include duties of loyalty and confidentiality and attorney-client privilege.

Counsel should appropriately balance efficiency in client representation with ethical requirements to ensure that their actions align with legal standards while protecting the interests of their clients.

Listen as our expert discusses the ethical considerations that frequently arise in ERISA, employee benefits, and executive compensation, and how attorneys can maintain professional integrity and compliance with ethical standards.

Presented By

Andrew L. Oringer
Partner, General Counsel
The Wagner Law Group, LLP

Mr. Oringer is co-chair of his firm's ERISA and Executive Compensation group, and leads the firm’s national fiduciary practice in New York. He counsels clients on their employee benefit plans and programs, benefits-related tax matters and fiduciary issues arising in connection with the investment of employee benefit plan assets. His practice includes advising clients regarding ERISA and employee benefits generally, including 401(k) and other retirement plans as well as medical and other welfare plans. His advice to clients encompasses all aspects of corporate transactions and initial public offerings in which benefits and compensation issues play a central part.

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Credit Information

  • This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.

  • An excellent opportunity to earn Ethics CLE credits. Note: BARBRI cannot guarantee that this course will be approved for ethics credits in all states. To confirm, please contact our CLE department at pdservice@barbri.com.


  • Live Online


    On Demand

Date + Time

  • event

    Monday, December 15, 2025

  • schedule

    1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT

I. Sources of ethical guidance and rules

A. ABA Model Rules, and the various state rules that apply

II. Common ethical issues

A. Communications

B. Conflicts of interest

C. Confidentiality

D. Multi-party representation

E. Privilege and the fiduciary exception thereto

III. Best practice tips for compliance with ethics rules, principles, and guidelines

Our expert will discuss these and other important issues:

  • Key attorney-client privilege, and duty of loyalty and confidentiality issues for counsel
  • What are exceptions to attorney-client privilege regarding fiduciaries