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I ♡ Trademarks Conference 2025Fraud with Errors: Avoiding Both Egregious and Unintentional Ethical Issues

Alt Legal Team | February 04, 2025
2 min read

At the Alt Legal I ♡ Trademarks Conference, taking place on March 18, 2025, Michael McCabe, Managing Partner, McCabe & Ali will present the session, “Fraud with Errors: Avoiding Both Egregious and Unintentional Ethical Issues.”

In this session, Michael will explore the pitfalls—from overt fraud to everyday oversights—and outline best practices for insulating yourself and your firm from liability. Attendees will learn how to:

  • Properly identify and intake your trademark client
  • Ethically address conflicts of interest before they escalate
  • Recognize bad actors and navigate client referral sources or intermediaries
  • Supervise non-practitioners to avoid ethics or malpractice charges

Learn more about the Alt Legal I ♡ Trademarks Conference here.

Register for the Alt Legal I ♡ Trademarks Conference here.

Speakers

Michael McCabe, Managing Partner, McCabe & Ali

Michael McCabe is the Managing Partner of McCabe Ali LLP, with offices in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. Michael has practiced IP law for 32 years and served for over a decade as in-house ethics counsel for a large IP boutique law firm. Michael’s practice focuses on the intersection of IP and ethics. He has represented hundreds of trademark and intellectual property practitioners in ethics investigations, sanctions issues, disciplinary trials, malpractice cases, and professional misconduct matters before the USPTO. Michael regularly consults with lawyers and law firm management on risk management, ethics compliance, and internal investigations. He has testified as an expert witness before federal and state tribunals in IP legal malpractice cases. Michael serves a Chair of the ABA IP Section’s Professional Issues Division and was the IP Section’s Chair or Vice Chair of the Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee for seven years. Michael is a member of the teaching faculty for the Virginia State Bar mandatory Ethics and Professionalism Course. In 2014, Michael created IPethics & INsights, an award- winning law blog focusing on ethics, malpractice and related issues in patent and trademark law. Michael earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Baltimore School of Law. Before law school, Michael worked for 4 years as an engineer for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

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