Susan Maslow Presents at ABA Business Law Meeting

Antheil Maslow & MacMinn, LLP founder and Partner Susan Maslow participated as part of a two-person panel at the ABA Business Law Section Fall Meeting on September 12th in San Diego, California, explaining What is Expected of Me under the New ABA Model Rule 1.16? The Ethical Requirements and Practical Implications of Client Due Diligence. Sue and the Chair of the Business Law Section’s Professional Responsibility Committee, AJ Singelton, explained the targeted changes to Rule 1.16 are intended to clarify that the lawyer is ethically obligated to undertake a reasonable, risk-based analysis to evaluate whether the client is using or seeking to use the lawyer’s services to perpetuate a crime or fraud and has an ethical obligation to be sure he or she acts as an advisor without becoming an enabler. To listen to a recordings of this 1.5 CLE program and its summary of best practices, Click here! Sue also acted as Materials Chair to a second CLE offering during the Fall Meeting titled Evolving Sustainability Requirements: Soft Law to Hard Law to Harder Law jointly presented by the Corporate Social Responsibility Law Committee she has chaired since 2022 and the ESG Subcommittee of Corporate Governance and Federal Regulation of Securities.