IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024

15 Sep - 20 Sep 2024

PALACIO DE CANAL 4, LEVEL E1

Session information

Law firms, legal organisations - to speak or not to speak that is the question. (How) should law firms, legal organisations react to politically volatile situations

Wednesday 18 September (1430 - 1545)

PALACIO DE CANAL 4, LEVEL E1

Committee(s)

Professional Ethics Committee (Lead)

Description

In this session, we will focus on:

•    Law firms’ decision and the behind the scenes decision-making process about whether to speak out or stay silent in such situations and why;
•    Dentons’ (and maybe also other firms’) reaction wherein they have originally made a post on LinkedIn about the terror attacks and when an associate from the firm has criticised it, they have removed it;
•    big law firms’ open letter asking law school deans to respond to antisemitism in campus protests; and 
•    rescission of contracts/revocation of offers by Winston & Strawn, Davis Polk, etc, for inflammatory comments in regards to the terror attacks and the current situation is Israel.
 

Session / Workshop Chair(s)

Gabor Damjanovic Forgó Damjanovic & Partners, Budapest, Hungary; Member, Professional Ethics Committee Advisory Board

Speakers

Ronaldo Camargo Veirano Veirano Advogados, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Michael Evans Byfield Reputation Counsel, London, England
David Kaufman Nixon Peabody, San Francisco, California, USA
Sherry Levin Wallach NY State Bar Ass./Legal Aid Society Westchester , White Plains, New York, USA