The Firm Retreat: Part 3

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.

Barbara Saunders Related Seminars and Products

Assistant Ethics Counsel

Virginia State Bar

Barbara Balogh Saunders is Assistant Ethics Counsel for the Virginia State Bar.  She has held this position since June 2001.  Ms. Saunders staffs the Ethics Department’s “hotline,” providing ethics advice to members of the Virginia Bar, and also is staff counsel responsible for reviewing and investigating unauthorized practice of law complaints.
 
Prior to joining the Virginia State Bar, Ms. Saunders was in private practice for twelve years.  She was a partner at the law firm of Poindexter & Schorsch in Waynesboro where her practice focused on domestic relations, Workers Compensation, and Social Security disability.  Prior to practicing in Waynesboro, Ms. Saunders practiced in Richmond.
 
Ms. Saunders graduated from Mary Washington College in 1983 with a BA in International Affairs.  She graduated from T.C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond in 1989.

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.