The Ethical Transactional Lawyer Meets Anti-Money Laundering Regulations

The Ethical Transactional Lawyer Meets Anti-Money Laundering Regulations - Can They Co-Exist

November 2011

The Ethical Transactional Lawyer Meets Anti-Money Laundering Regulations - Can They Co-Exist? - LIVE IN DENVER

Program Description:

Voluntary Good Practices Guidance for Lawyers to Detect and Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing:

· History and Background - Drugs and Terrorism

· Model Rules of Professional Responsibility

-Where Are We?

-Threat of Federal Legislation

· Voluntary Good Practices - the Better Alternative to Federal Regulation

-What's a lawyer to do?

Presented by: James W. Buchanan III, Jamie Kilcoyne, Kevin D. Millard, Daniel A. Rich, James P. Stouffer, Bob Keatinge, Keith Whitelaw, and John Walsh

Agenda:

8:00 am - 8:30 am Registration (Continental Breakfast provided)

8:30 am - 10:30am Program

About the Faculty:

James W. Buchanan III

Buchanan & Stouffer, PC

Jim's undergraduate, law, and Master of Laws in taxation degrees are from the University of Denver. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, an Academician of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law, a non-securities industry member of the Board of Arbitrators of the National Association of Securities Dealers, has taught trusts and estates at the University of Denver College of Law, and is listed in Best Lawyers in America. Jim is a contributing author of the Colorado Estate Planning Handbook and its companion forms book, published by the Estate and Trust Section of the Colorado Bar Association. Jim is a shareholder in the Lakewood law firm of Buchanan & Stouffer, P.C.

Jamie Kilcoyne

K Financial

Jamie Kilcoyne is the Principal of K Financial, a CPA firm specializing in audit and advisory services. Prior to founding K Financial in 2003, Jamie was a Senior Audit Manager at KPMG. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Ohio University, where he majored in Accounting and Business Law. Kilcoyne is a CPA, Certified Internal Auditor, Certified Information Systems Auditor, Certified Information Technology Professional, and a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Colorado Society of CPAs, Vice President of the Denver chapter of the Insurance Accounting and Systems Association, former Vice President of Education of the Denver chapter of the Institute of Internal Auditors, Chairman of the K Financial Foundation and serves on the Finance Committee at St. Louis Catholic Church.

Kevin D. Millard

Chorney & Millard LLP

Kevin D. Millard is a partner in Chorney & Millard LLP in Denver, Colorado, practicing estate planning, probate, and trust administration. Mr. Millard is a 1972 graduate, magna cum laude, of Kenyon College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a 1975 graduate, cum laude, of the University of Minnesota Law School. He was in private law practice in Minneapolis for five years and then spent one year as an Assistant Professor of Law at William Mitchell College of Law, teaching trusts and legal research and writing, before moving to Colorado and resuming private practice. As an adjunct professor, Mr. Millard has taught Trusts and Estates at the University of Minnesota Law School and the University of Denver College of Law and Estate Planning at the University of Colorado Law School. He has written and lectured extensively on various estate planning and fiduciary administration topics and is the author of Drafting Wills, Trusts, and Other Estate Planning Documents: A Style Manual (Bradford Publishing 2006). Mr. Millard is a Fellow and former Colorado State Chair of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and the past chair of the Trust and Estate Section of the Colorado Bar Association.

Daniel A. Rich

Steele Street Bank & Trust

Dan Rich has worked for over 30 years in the trust business and is the executive vice president and trust department manager of Steele Street Bank & Trust. His responsibilities include supervision for the trust department and administration of trusts from offices in Denver. He is a licensed attorney with a law degree from the University of Denver College of Law and an M.B.A. in finance from the University of Colorado. He also completed a number of post-graduate courses in the LL.M. tax program at the University of Denver.

James P. Stouffer

Buchanan & Stouffer, PC

J.P. is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, having received his undergraduate degree in Economics in 1966 and his law degree in 1969. After law school, J.P. clerked with the Oregon Court of Appeals, and then practiced with a large law firm in Portland. In 1973, he moved to Colorado and has practiced law in the Denver area ever since. His areas of concentration are estate planning and administration, business planning, and real estate.

J.P. is a member of the Colorado Bar Association and currently serves as a member of the Title Standards Committee of the Real Estate and Titles Section. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the area of Trusts and Estates.

Robert R. Keatinge, Esq.

Holland & Hart LLP

Robert R. Keatinge is Of Counsel to the Denver law firm of Holland & Hart LLP. He practices in the areas of business organizations, taxation, and professional responsibility. Mr. Keatinge has represented a wide variety of business organizations and their owners, from small start-up companies to publicly traded corporations. He has acted as an expert witness on matters of business organizations and professional responsibility. He has written and spoken nationally in the areas of business law, tax, and professional responsibility.

Keith Whitelaw

Colorado Secretary of State's Office

Keith Whitelaw is a former Director of the Business Division of the Colorado Secretary of State's Office. He graduated from Yale University and attended Vanderbilt Law School before receiving his J.D. from the University of Denver College of Law. He has over 25 years of experience in the practice of law in Colorado both in private practice and as in-house counsel at Qwest Communications, focusing on transactional law. During his additional 13+ years at the Secretary of State's office, Keith's duties have included formulating policy, advising on legal matters, managing contract issues, interpreting statutes, drafting and analyzing legislation, lobbying, systems and applications development, and external relations. Now semi-retired, Keith has returned to the Secretary of State's office on a part-time basis.

John Walsh

U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado

John Walsh is the United States Attorney for the District of Colorado, and has served in that position since mid-2010, when he was nominated by the President and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. He brings extensive securities litigation, securities fraud and white collar criminal practice experience to the position. Prior to becoming U.S. Attorney, he was in private practice in Denver, Colorado for fifteen years, and was a partner at Holland & Hart, LLP, and then Hill & Robbins, PC. He began his law practice as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles, where he served from 1987 to 1995. Walsh was Chief of the Major Frauds Section of that office from 1993 to 1995, and participated in a number of notable white collar investigations and prosecutions, including those of Charles Keating, Michael Milken, and then-Arizona Governor J. Fife Symington.