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Total Credits: 3 Alaska, 3 Arizona, 3 Arkansas, 4 Colorado, 3 Delaware, 3.5 Florida, 3 Georgia, 3 Idaho, 3 Maine, 3 Michigan, 3.6 Missouri, 3 Montana, 3 Nebraska, 3 Nevada, 3 New Mexico, 3 North Dakota, 3 South Carolina, 3 Tennessee, 3 Vermont, 3 Virginia, 3 Washington, 3.6 West Virginia, 3 Wyoming
“Ethics Tonight – Season 2021” is a 3-hour CLE Ethics Program. Three video vignettes in the style of a late-night talk show shed light on ethical issues that many attorneys face daily. A group of panelists will apply the Rules of Professional Conduct to the analysis of the issues presented.
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 greater sensitivity to 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.
The issues raised in Vignette One, “Friendships,” include the types of costs and expenses that can be passed along to clients, for example, convenience fees for processing credit cards and technology fees to cover the costs of enhanced firm cybersecurity efforts; ethical issues that arise as a result of attorneys and staff working remotely; confidentiality concerns that arise out of the personal relationships attorneys are involved in; and what the term “personal interests of the lawyer” means in the context of conflicts of interest.
In Vignette Two “She’s Good,” the panel will have the opportunity to discuss an attorney’s obligations upon learning that a client intends to commit fraud, to include the meaning of the term “know” in this context; to do a deep dive on the ins and outs of withdrawing from a matter; and to explain how to ethically respond to a negative online review.
Finally in Vignette Three “It’s Getting Late” the program will conclude with a discussion on harassment in the workplace, the duties owed to prospective clients, the ethical boundaries of an attorney or firm offering various types of ancillary services, and the boundaries of non-lawyer ownership of a law firm in your jurisdiction.
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| Ethics Tonight Season 2021 Full Attendee Materials (12.6 MB) | 76 Pages | Available after Purchase |
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.
Paul Georgiadis has over 30 years of private and government practice in defending and prosecuting attorneys. From his Richmond, Virginia office, he now represents attorneys throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia in professional liability issues including bar complaint defense, ethics advice, law office management, and law office audits.
His practice includes advising attorneys in New Mexico through the Ethics and Risk Management Hotline of the State Bar of New Mexico.
Georgiadis also provides law office audits for members of the Virginia State Bar, Hawaii State Bar, and the State Bar of New Mexico proactively, as imposed in discipline terms, and for LPL insurability.
From 2000-2015, he served as Assistant Bar Counsel for the Virginia State Bar, prosecuting hundreds of bar complaints before bar tribunals and circuit courts of the Commonwealth.
From 1995-2000, he was selected by the State Bars of Virginia, Arizona, Hawaii, New Mexico, and Tennessee to serve as Risk Manager to their members.
He is a past-president of the Lewis F. Powell, Jr. American Inn of Court and a past president of the Henrico County Bar Association. He is a past-president of the Virginia Boat Club and since 2012, has coached the VCU Novice Men’s Crew Team.
He is a graduate of Georgetown University and the T.C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond.
JEANNE MARIE CLAVERE is a 1987 graduate of the University of Puget Sound School of Law (now Seattle University School of Law). Prior to earning her law degree she received a Master of Business Administration from DePaul University in Chicago. In February, 2010 she joined the staff of the Washington State Bar Association as Professional Responsibility Counsel. After four years with a Seattle law firm, Jeanne Marie began her solo practice in 1992, focusing on estate planning, elder law (including complex guardianships, trusts, and guardian ad litem appointments), and contract based criminal prosecution. As Professional Responsibility Counsel, Jeanne Marie serves as an advisor to members of the bar on the Rules of Professional Conduct as they apply to WSBA Advisory Ethics Opinions, the Rules for Enforcement of Lawyer Conduct, and the ABA Standards for Imposing Lawyer Sanctions. She has been invited to lecture on Professionalism, Civility, and Ethics at all three Washington law schools, for the American Bar Association, and speaks at various local bar CLE’s throughout the state. Jeanne Marie is the primary responder on the WSBA Ethics Line and wants every attendee to commit the number to memory and call her first, not after they run into an ethical dilemma. While in private practice Jeanne Marie appeared before a wide range of courts and tribunals, ranging from Ex Parte hearings to trials on guardianship and criminal issues, and served for many years as a Settlement, Litigation, Adoption, Family Law, Incapacity and Probate Guardian ad Litem in King and Snohomish Counties. Jeanne Marie is Past President of the state Washington Women Lawyers, past Chair of the Washington State Bar Association Elder Law Section and served on the executive committee of the King County Bar Association Guardianship and Elder Law Section. She is a member of the American Bar Association and the ABA’s Center for Professional Responsibility, is a Washington Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and is a Master Member of the William L. Dwyer Inn of Court. Jeanne Marie also serves as PresidentElect of the National Conference of Women’s Bar Associations.
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