“Alternative Fee Arrangements: Saving the Profession?”

 2011 Annual Meeting Program – Video Webcast Archive

2.5 MCLE Credits
1.0 credit in ethics, 1.5 credits in areas of professional practice

Sponsored by the Committee on Attorney Professionalism and the Committee on Law Practice Management

Economic trends have put alternative fee arrangement (AFAs) in the spotlight. Value and efficiency demands by clients have forced nearly every attorney to pay attention to AFAs. However, if we depart from the billable hour, what does this mean for the profession? How do AFAs change the attorney-client relationship, as well as the internal law firm hierarchy and baseline for performance evaluations? During this program, a distinguished panel will address these questions from several perspectives: a global law firm managing partner, a consultant specializing in AFAs, a former in-house counsel and a law school professor.

Topics

• Kinds of AFAs being utilized

• How AFAs have changed the business of law

• Why AFAs will change the legal profession

• Ethics and professional considerations of AFAs

Program Faculty 

Program Chair

Anastasia V. Boyko, Esq., Professional Development Manager
Practical Law Company, Inc.

Panelists

William Perlstein, Esq., Co-Managing Partner
WilmerHale LLP, Washington, D.C.

James Hassett, Founder LegalBizDev, Boston, MA

Kirk G. Forrest, Esq., Former Vice President and General Counsel 
Minerals Technologies and SAM’S CLUB, New York City

Professor Gary A. Munneke, Pace University School of Law
White Plains

This program was recorded on January 27, 2011 at the New York State Bar Association Annual Meeting.

This archived webcast is a video online program that you will view and listen to on your computer screen. The program code for each topic that you write on the included MCLE Form only appears on the screen and is not announced by audio.