The Firm Retreat: Part 1
- Average Rating:
- 699
- Faculty:
- Mark Bassingthwaighte, Esq. | Dorian Dalton | Seth Guggenheim
- Duration:
- 1 hour
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- License:
- Expires 3 month(s) after program date.
Tags: Virginia CLE
Description
“The Firm Retreat: Part 1” is the first 1-hour part in a 3-part CLE Ethics Program offered free for Virginia attorneys in partnership with the Virginia State Bar.
Each 1-hour part will show a short video taking us behind the scenes as a law firm holds its annual staff retreat. A panel of your peers will apply the Virginia Rules of Professional Conduct to their analysis of the issues presented. During the panel discussions, attendees will be encouraged to ask questions and share comments.
Ultimately, the goal is for you to 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.
The issues raised in Vignette One “The Plan Comes Together” include communications between an attorney proceeding pro se and an opposing party who is represented, concerns with the use of “reply all” when responding to an email, application permissions when using a smartphone for work, the tension between client confidentiality and courthouse security, and issues surrounding the filing of a disciplinary complaint.
Credits
Handouts
| Firm Retreat Materials Part 1 (10.6 MB) | 15 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Faculty
Mark Bassingthwaighte, Esq. Related Seminars and Products
Risk Manager
ALPS
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.
Dorian Dalton Related Seminars and Products
Assistant Ethics Counsel
Virginia State Bar
Dorian Dalton is Assistant Ethics Counsel for the Virginia State Bar where she provides informal ethics advice to members of the bar through the Legal Ethics hotline. Prior to joining the Virginia State Bar, Dorian was a staff attorney at the Supreme Court of Virginia in the Office of the Chief Staff Attorney and the Department of Legal Research. Dorian also worked as a public defender for nearly a decade in Stafford County and the City of Richmond. She graduated from the University of Richmond School of Law in 2007.
Seth Guggenheim Related Seminars and Products
Seth M. Guggenheim
Seth Guggenheim joined Shumack & Guggenheim, PLLC in January 2023 following a robust career in private and government practice. He is AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell.
Seth has taught Ethics for Trial Lawyers for nine years as an adjunct professor at American University's Washington College of Law. He also regularly presents ethics-focused continuing legal education programs to bar audiences in Virginia.
From 2012-2021, Seth served as Assistant Ethics Counsel to the Virginia State Bar. In this role, he provided confidential advice through the Bar's Ethics Hotline, assisted the Bar's Standing Committee on Legal Ethics in formulating proposed opinions, and made presentations at the Annual Disciplinary Conference of the Virginia State Bar.
From 2000-2012, Seth served as Assistant Bar Counsel and then Senior Bar Counsel (2007-2012) in Virginia, roles in which he was responsible for investigating and prosecuting bar complaints before District Committees, the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board, and three-judge Circuit Courts. At the Bar's request, Seth argued two disciplinary cases before the Supreme Court of Virginia.
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