Ethics Café Series: Ethics for In-House Counsel: Navigating Complex Relationships
Total Credits: 1 CLE, 1 Ethics
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- Bundle(s):
- 2025 Ethics Cafe Bundle
- Categories:
- Ethics
- Faculty:
- Jessica Jean-Marie Kokal | Anne W Schrock
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Co-Sponsored by:
- The State Bar of Arizona Ethics Advisory Group
Description
In-house counsel play a critical role in advising and representing organizations. However, this role comes with unique ethical challenges. This one-hour CLE program will delve into the key ethics issues that in-house counsel face, providing practical guidance and real-world examples to help navigate complex situations.
Topics will include:
- Representing Organizational Clients: Understanding the duties and responsibilities of in-house counsel, including the role of the organization’s management and board.
- Conflicts of Interest: Identifying and managing conflicts when representing organizational clients.
- Confidentiality and Privilege: Understanding the distinction between attorney-client privilege and confidentiality in the in-house setting.
Speakers:
Jessica Kokal, Broening Oberg Woods & Wilson PC
Anne Schrock, Blue Cross Blue Shield of ArizonaAnne Schrock, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona
Faculty
Jessica Jean-Marie Kokal Related Seminars and Products
Broening Oberg Woods & Wilson PC
Jessica Kokal is a partner with Broening Oberg Woods & Wilson. Jessica moved to the Valley from the Detroit metropolitan area to attend Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University as a National Merit scholar recruit. She remained at Arizona State University to attend law school at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law while also working full-time at a small Phoenix firm. After joining the firm of Broening, Oberg, Woods & Wilson as an associate in 2016, Jessica was invited to become a partner in 2018.
During her career, Jessica has defended over 30 arbitrations both in what are now known as Tier 1 cases in the state of Arizona and in the AAA forum, taken and defended hundreds of depositions, participated in dozens of administrative hearings and settlement conferences, and defended multiple trials, before both juries and the presiding disciplinary judge and disciplinary hearing panel, to verdict. She currently focuses her practice in the areas of general liability defense, insurance bad faith with a focus in workers’ compensation bad faith, and professional malpractice and lawyer disciplinary proceedings.
In addition to maintaining her practice, Jessica oversees the firm’s mentorship program and chairs the firm’s marketing and recruitment committees. Between 2017 and 2019, she also directed the Phoenix Ladder Down program, designed to help women lawyers extend the “ladder down” to other women lawyers. She currently leads the firm’s mentorship program.
Anne W Schrock Related Seminars and Products
Director, Legal and Chief Privacy Officer
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona
Is the Director of Legal Services and Privacy Officer at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona (BCBSAZ). Prior to joining BCBSAZ in 2016, Anne served as vice president and general counsel at Delta Dental of Arizona, and as an associate at Snell & Wilmer, focusing her practice on commercial litigation health care services, health care transactions, compliance and regulatory matters. She also spent 15 years working at the National Security Agency, where she received numerous awards and recognition for outstanding performance and exceptional contributions to the intelligence community. Anne is a member of the Supreme Court's Attorney Ethics Advisory Committee and the State Bar's Committee on the Rules of Professional Conduct. She received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania and graduated magna cum laude from the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University.