The Watergate CLE: Featuring John W. Dean & James D. Robenalt

When:  Dec 3, 2015 from 09:00 AM to 12:30 PM (ET)

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Presented in partnership with The Professional Education Group (P.E.G.®)

Featuring:
John W. Dean
James D. Robenalt

 

About The Program:

 

The Nixon Watergate scandal changed the world.

John Dean, President Nixon's Chief White House Counsel, played a key role and
testified at Senate Watergate Committee hearings that were watched by millions.

Both the Watergate scandal and Dean’s principle-driven actions ushered in much
needed legal ethics reforms in the United States.

Over forty years ago, Richard Nixon became the only president in U.S. history to resign, in large part because of disclosures about the Watergate scandal by his White House counsel, John Dean. During this special one site only presentation, Dean will be joined by nationally renowned trial expert James D. Robenalt as they tie this historic chain of events to the ethical issues you likely face every day in your practice.

 

Program Agenda:
9:00 Review of the Major Cover-Up Milestones (July 1972 to March 1973)
10:00 The Nixon Tapes - Background
10:45 Break
11:00 The “Cancer on the Presidency” Warning (March 21, 1973, Oval Office)
12:30 Adjourn

 

About John W. Dean
Before becoming Counsel to the President of the United States in July 1970 at age thirty-one, John Dean was Chief Minority Counsel to the Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives, the Associate Director of a law reform commission, and Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States. He served as Richard Nixon’s White House lawyer for a thousand days. He did his undergraduate studies at Colgate University and the College of Wooster, with majors in English Literature and Political Science. He received a graduate fellowship from American University to study government and the presidency, before entering Georgetown University Law Center, where he received his JD in 1965. John recounted his days in the Nixon White House and Watergate in two books, Blind Ambition (1976) and Lost Honor (1982).

 

About James D. Robenalt
Jim is a partner and former Chair of the Business Litigation group at Thompson Hine LLP’s Cleveland office. Jim has won big verdicts for clients, including Avery Dennison ($81 million jury verdict on international espionage case) and Solvay Pharmaceuticals ($68 million arbitration award on drug co-promotion agreement). Jim is also the author of two non-fiction books dealing with the American presidency: Linking Rings, William W. Durbin and the Magic and Mystery of America (Kent State University Press 2004) and The Harding Affair, Love and Espionage During the Great War (Palgrave 2009). He is a recognized leader in judicial reform in Ohio. Jim teaches and instructs on the legal ethics and the representation of an organization under new Model Rules 1.13 and 1.6.

 

CLE Credits:
NJ CLE information: This program has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 3.4 hours of total CLE credit. Of these, 3.4 qualify as hours of credit for ethics/professionalism.

NJ CLE :

 This program has been approved for 3.4 credits (50 minute hour), including 3.4 ethics/professionalism credits
PA CLE: 2.5 ethics credits pending ($12 fee – separate check payable to NJICLE must be submitted at the end of the program)

NY CLE (t&nt):

 3.0 ethics credits


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