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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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Emily Hedrick is Ethics Counsel for the Virginia State Bar and has been at the Bar since 2011. She serves as a staff liaison to the Standing Committee on Legal Ethics and the Special Committee on Technology and the Future Practice of Law and previously worked with the Practice Management Task Force, among other VSB groups and task forces. She also 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.
Dennis Quinn concentrates his practice on professional liability, commercial litigation, and ethics counseling. He successfully represented hundreds of clients in legal malpractice actions, accounting malpractice actions, and ethical complaints, trying cases in most of the state and federal courts in the District of Columbia, Virginia, and Maryland. Dennis regularly advises lawyers and law firms on ethical issues, and frequently speaks to bar associations and professional groups on ethics, risk management, and the avoidance of malpractice claims and bar complaints. He serves as Carr Maloney’s General Counsel.
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