William Freivogel
999 N. Lake Shore Dr.William Freivogel
Currently: January 1, 2007 to date: Independent consultant for law firms on ethics and professional liability.
2002 to December 31, 2006: Senior Vice President-Loss Prevention, Aon Risk Services.
2000 to July 2002: Independent consultant for law firms and other lawyer groups on legal ethics and professional liability.
1988 to 2000: Attorneys’ Liability Assurance Society ("ALAS"); Senior Vice President and Loss Prevention Counsel, 1998 to March 2000.
1983 to 1988: Founding partner, Burke, Bosselman, Freivogel, Weaver, Glaves & Ryan, Chicago, Illinois. 1968 to 1983: Ross & Hardies, Chicago, Illinois (became partner in 1972). 1965 to 1968: Private practice in Danville, Illinois.
Areas of Expertise:
Trial lawyer for 23 years. Substantive areas: antitrust; civil rights; constitutional law; products liability; intellectual property.
Since 1987 concentrating on legal ethics, lawyer malpractice, and related disciplines. Written many articles and given many speeches to large law firms and bar groups on those topics. Consulted on the telephone with loss prevention personnel at law firms on several thousand occasions. Worked with the American Law Institute in its formulation of the Restatement (Third) of the Law Governing Lawyers - as a member of the Members' Consultative Group. Member of the Advisory Council of the ABA Commission on the Evaluation of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct ("Ethics 2000" project). Testified before ABA Commission on Multidisciplinary Practice.
Representative Organizations:
Chair (2006-2008), Editorial Board, ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct; Chair (2007-2010), Professional Responsibility Committee, Business Law Section, American Bar Association; American Law Institute; American Bar Foundation; Lawyers' Club of Chicago.
Representative Articles:
Publishes Freivogel on Conflicts, an online publication dedicated to conflicts of interest. It contains approximately 250 pages of material.
Many articles for the ALAS Loss Prevention Journal, from 1990 to 1999, and major portions of the ALAS Loss Prevention Manual. Other writings include: Selected Ethics Issues in Litigation Practice, 72 Tulane L. Rev. 637 (1997) (co-author); Conflicts of Interest: A Storm Warning from the U.S.?, The European Lawyer, Nov. 2001, at 20; Conflicts of Interest and the Business Lawyer: A Professional Liability Epidemic, 11 DELAWARE LAWYER 32 (Winter 1993); Emerging Conflict of Interest Issues, 79 ILLINOIS BAR J. 628 (December 1991).
Number of articles on the interface of information technology with legal ethics and professional liability. Internet Communications, Part II, A Larger Perspective: originally written for the January 1997 ALAS Loss Prevention Journal. Now on the Internet (click on the title). Frequently cited and one of the first commentaries to suggest that lawyers may use the Internet to communicate without the difficulties of using encryption.
Speaking Engagements - 2007
February 21 -
Professional Education Broadcast Network - Negotiation Ethics
March 2 - National
Association of Bond Lawyers - Ethics and Technology
March 15 - American
Bar Association, Business Law Section - Conflicts of Interest
March 24 - American
Bar Association, Law Practice Management Section - Ethics and Technology
March 27 & 28 -
Professional Education Broadcast Network - Ethics in Civil Litigation
April 17 - American
Bar Association, Business Law Section - Opinion Risk
April 19 - Law Firm
Management Forum - Canada - Conflicts of Interest
May 24 & 25 -
Colorado Bar, Intellectual Property Law Section - Ethics in the Intellectual
Property Practice
June 22 & 29 -
University of Missouri - Ethics Program
June 26 - Thompson
Elite Users Conference - Conflicts of Interest
August 11 -
Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers - “Who’s Your Client?
Ethical Issues in Formation and Representation of Closely-Held
Entities”
August 17 - Illinois
State Bar Association - Conflicts of Interest
September 20 -
American Bar Association, Standing Committee on Lawyers’ Professional
Liability - “The Internal Discussion: The In-Firm Attorney-Client Privilege”
September 26 - Law
Firm (unnamed - confidential) - Conflicts of Interest
September 27 & 28
- National Association of Bond Lawyers - Lawyer Liability
October 17 - Aon
Professional Services Group Symposium - Conflicts of Interest
October 26 - National
Association of State Bar Tax Sections - Multi-Jurisdictional Practice
October 30 - American
Bar Association, Business Law Section - Opinion Risk
November 6 - Aon
Affinity, Pilot Legis - Ethics Program
November 9 -
University of North Carolina, School of Law - Conflicts of Interest
Education:
LL.B., 1965, University of Illinois (Champaign);
B.S., 1962, University
of Illinois (Champaign).
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