George M. Vinci, Jr., Shareholder and Director of Spector Gadon Rosen Vinci P.C., will speak on “Premature and Unripe, or an Opportunity to Eliminate Potential Damages? Creating a Defense Strategy When the Legal Malpractice Claim is Still Developing” at the American Bar Association’s Fall 2019 National Legal Malpractice Conference in San Diego, Calif. on Sept. 12.

Vinci and his fellow panel members will discuss strategic issues involved when a legal malpractice claim is asserted at a time when it’s uncertain what will happen with the “case” inside the legal malpractice case, including how to decide whether to join the former client in defending the suit or instead to punt the legal malpractice case as premature.

The panel will also address the pros and cons of the lawyer attempting to reduce or forestall damages by providing curative, continuing representation to the client even after the malpractice claim is threatened or asserted, including the effects on the lawyer’s ongoing duty of loyalty to the client and the assertion of the attorney-client privilege for the lawyer’s own defense.

Vinci will be joined on the panel by Rinat Klier Erlich, Partner at Manning & Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez, Trester LLP in Los Angeles, Calif.; and Mark Scruggs, Senior Claims Counsel at Lawyers Mutual Liability Insurance Company of North Carolina in Durham, N.C.

Spector Gadon Rosen Vinci P.C. has represented clients nationally and internationally for nearly 50 years and provides counsel and expertise across the entire spectrum of legal practice, from complex litigation to sophisticated transactional and corporate matters. The firm has offices in Philadelphia, New Jersey, Florida, and New York.

The firm represents businesses, corporate boards, and highly placed individuals. Its clients are engaged in a variety of industries including finance and banking, manufacturing, hospitality, gaming and entertainment, real estate and commercial development, insurance and venture capital, energy, financial services, health care, security and telecommunications.

The firm’s practice areas include high stakes litigation, business disputes, commercial litigation, professional liability, products liability, securities, trust and estates, fiduciary litigation, bankruptcy and creditors rights, civil RICO, trade secrets, trademark and restrictive covenants, intellectual property, antitrust, white-collar criminal defense, banking and financial services, corporate formation and governance, employment, entertainment and amusements, environment and energy, wealth management, healthcare, hospitality, insurance coverage and insured casualty litigation, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, real estate, sports and tax law.