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“Ethics Tonight – Season 2022” is a series of video vignettes designed to shed light on ethical issues that many attorneys face daily. While the issues raised in the series are never state specific, we will apply the Rules of Professional Conduct of your jurisdiction to the analysis of the issues presented.
In each program, three video vignettes will be shown, and a panel will discuss a series of questions that addresses the issues raised in each vignette. During the panel discussions, attendees will be encouraged to ask questions and share comments.
The intent is to emphasize that attorneys should take time to identify and reflect upon the ethical issues that arise in the day-to-day practice of law on a more frequent basis. Ultimately, the desire is to have attendees leave the program with a greater sensitivity of the many ethical issues that can be in play any day of the week, be better prepared to view these issues as learning opportunities and be more willing to take advantage of these opportunities in order to see that the issues are responsibly addressed and resolved.
Program Summary:
The issues raised in Vignette One “Air Traffic Control” include ethics concerns with a subscription-based legal practice, complying with Rules 1.1 and 1.4 when the client and attorney don’t share a common language, and exploring the ethical boundaries of a mediation practice.
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| Ethics Tonight 2022 Part 1 Attendee Materials (2.4 MB) | 30 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Emily Hedrick is Assistant Ethics Counsel for the Virginia State Bar, and has held this position since February 2011. She currently serves as a staff liaison to the Standing Committee on Legal Ethics and the Special Committee on Technology and Future Law Practice, drafts advisory ethics opinions, and provides informal ethics advice to members of the bar through the ethics hotline.
Before joining the VSB, Emily was a law clerk fellow at the Supreme Court of Virginia Office of the Chief Staff Attorney. She has a BA in philosophy from the University of Virginia and a JD from the UVa School of Law.
Since 1998, Mark Bassingthwaighte, Esq., has been a Risk Manager with ALPS, the nation’s largest direct writer of lawyers’ malpractice insurance. In his tenure with our company, Mr. Bassingthwaighte has conducted over 1200 law firm risk management assessment visits, presented over 600 continuing legal education seminars throughout the United States, and written extensively on risk management, ethics, and technology. Mr. Bassingthwaighte is a member of the State Bar of Montana as well as the American Bar Association where he currently sits on the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility’s Conference Planning Committee. He received his J.D. from Drake University Law School.
Greg St. Ours is a partner at Wharton Aldhizer & Weaver. WAW is a full service commercial and litigation law firm with offices in Harrisonburg and Staunton, Virginia.
Greg’s principal focus is civil litigation. His typical cases are on the defense side of the Bar in the fields of employment, construction, lender liability, antitrust and trade regulation, business torts, defamation, personal injury and wrongful death, and, in keeping with his role today as a panel member, professional malpractice, errors and omissions and insurance defense.
Greg also works with clients on the transaction side including advice and consultation on commercial transactions, contracts, insurance coverage, health care, employment, construction, commercial real estate and development, land use and zoning, eminent domain, finance and acquisitions, franchising and licensing, risk management, and copyright and trademark.
Greg received both his B.A. in Economics and his J.D. from the University of Virginia.
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