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Total Credits: 3 Virginia
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The Guardian transports us to a boutique law firm in Virginia that serves the legal needs of clients in tech sector. One of the firm’s clients has asked if a few members of the firm would be willing to evaluate a beta version of a cutting-edge Ethics and Risk Management AI tool called Guardian AI designed to evaluate and enhance ethical and risk management decision-making in a variety of industries. The firm agreed and the testing is about to begin… 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 are encouraged to ask questions and share comments.
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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.
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.
Mary Morgan is the managing partner of the Hampton Roads office of Infinity Law Group PLC, where she focuses on professional liability defense and defense of bar complaints and handles general civil litigation matters. She also handles a small number of criminal defense cases in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Ms. Morgan is a graduate of the University of Richmond School of Law and has practiced in both the Richmond and Hampton Roads areas. She is admitted to practice in all of the state courts of Virginia, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and the Western District of Virginia, the United States Bankruptcy Court and the United States Tax Court and has tried numerous cases in the General District Courts, Circuit Courts and the United States District Court. Ms. Morgan is the current President of the James Kent American Inn of Court, a past President of the Norfolk and Portsmouth Bar Association, a member of the Board of Directors for the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys, a past Chair of the Professional Liability Section of the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys, and a Past President for the Hampton Roads Chapter of the Virginia Women Attorneys Association. Ms. Morgan also serves on the Board of Directors for Edmarc Hospice for Children, and served for two years as the Chairman of the Board. She frequently lectures on prevention of legal malpractice claims.
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