Bitcoin & Blockchain: Legal and Ethical Issues You Need to Know to Help Clients
17 April 2018
Of Counsel Peter Vogel and associate Edward H. Block will present “Bitcoin & Blockchain: Legal and Ethical Issues You Need to Know to Help Clients,” a TexasBarCLE webcast available at 12:30 p.m. April 17.
This presentation will explain legal and technical details about blockchain so lawyers will be better prepared to help their clients. Specifically, lawyers need to understand internet business transactions using blockchain and the related privacy and tax concerns. The ethical considerations about blockchain that will be discussed include how protecting attorney-client privilege may be affected.
For more information and to register please visit the TexasBarCLE website.
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