Balancing Duty and Confidentiality: Protecting Privilege and Confidentiality in Child Abuse Cases

In the intricate landscape of child abuse cases, legal professionals encounter a challenging balance: ensuring the welfare of the child while preserving attorney-client privilege and confidentiality.
Join our CLE webcast, ‘Balancing Duty and Confidentiality: Protecting Privilege and Confidentiality in Child Abuse Cases,’ where our esteemed speakers will dissect this intricate subject. This session aims to unravel the legal and ethical complexities involved, furnishing participants with effective strategies to uphold confidentiality and privilege in such sensitive scenarios.

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Member Chalmers at Adams, Backer & Kaufman, LLC
Deborah Ausburn focuses on advising and defending youth-serving organizations. Named a Best Lawyer in Atlanta in 2024, she has spent more than 30 years as a social worker, foster parent, criminal prosecutor, and civil trial attorney. Her experience includes successful cases before the United States Supreme Court in constitutional claims, extensive work in free speech and religious freedom issues, and dozens of successful jury trials. That experience has given her a national presence with organizations that serve young people.

Member Chalmers at Adams, Backer & Kaufman, LLC
Tom is a member of the firm’s Atlanta, Georgia office, where he focuses on providing counsel to organizations serving children and youth and representation in administrative and court proceedings involving allegations of child abuse and neglect. Tom brings to the firm expertise in child welfare law and policy.