NJSBA Family Law Section

Hello Family Law Section members, 

On Friday, Dec. 6, NJICLE will present THE ULTIMATE HARRY POTTER CLE EXPERIENCE at the APA Hotel in Iselin, and HOLLYWOOD, THE HOLOCAUST AND HATE ON FILM-THE LEGAL AND ETHICAL RISKS IN PREEMPTING HISTORY FOR ARTISTIC ENDS at the Hyatt, Morristown.

Depending on which location is convenient for you, these seminars offer a different and interesting take on the traditional CLE program. Check out one of these seminars as you work to fulfill MCLE requirements in time for the Dec. 31 deadline.

The Ultimate Harry Potter CLE Experience
APA Hotel Woodbridge - 9 a.m. to 1 p.m

Featuring:
Professor Greg Randall Lee
Professor Lee is a Professor of Law at Widener University Commonwealth Law School
Part 1: Harry Potter and the Lawyer’s Curse
The world first met Harry Potter 22 years ago. Muggles everywhere watched him grow up to be the Rules of Professional Conduct's "citizen with a special responsibility for the quality of justice." In this program, travel with the young wizard through J.K. Rowling's popular series and encounter Harry's lessons on rules, justice, forgiveness, honor, and the magic in practicing law.

With grace, humor, and insight, Professor Greg Rand Lee analogizes lawyers to wizards and explains:
• How we can use our "magic" to make the world a better place.
• Why words matter.
• Why you should never waste an opportunity to do good deeds.
• Why lawyers bear responsibility for the community.
• Why others should inspire us, but why we should also be a source of inspiration.
• Why we should be personally involved in our clients' matters, but not take things personally.
• Why we should stand with people who have no one else to stand with them and why we need to that understand the world you save is a world worth saving.

Featuring:
Marc D. Garfinkle, Esq.
The Law Office of Marc Garfinkle, Morristown
Part 2: Ordinary Lawyers and the Quest for the Morphing Truth - An Ethics Adventure
On every lawyer’s desk sits the balance and the pennyweights that measure reasonableness. These are lawyer tools. They serve our clients, who count on us to keep their contracts fair and reasonable, their business practices reasonably compliant, their employees reasonably treated, their arguments reasonably made, their juries reasonably doubtful and so on. And we don’t just do it, we do it well.

But there is trouble afoot. Our traditional notions of truth are being challenged by social media, news media and government officials. Today, truth does not seem to exist except as one more way to spin a set of facts. Accurate allegations of fake news and disinformation are commonplace. People - thoughtful, intelligent people - are questioning whether truth really exists at all. If it does, then how do these challenges persist? If it does not, then haven’t the underpinnings of our government and jurisprudence been fatally compromised?

Register today to explore the importance of the truth and other obligations of lawyers under the RPC’s. We’ll discuss the untruths that lead to attorney discipline and how to deal with the OAE should you get caught in an unethical lie. As lawyers we wear many hats. Among them is a crown designating us Keepers of the Truth. We didn’t ask for it. It came with job. Good luck with the quest.

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 4.0 hours of total CLE credit. CLE credit. Of these,4.0 qualify as hours of credit for ethics/professionalism.
NJ CLE: This program has been approved for 4.0 credits (50 minute hour), including 4.0 ethics/professionalism.
PA CLE: 3.0 ethics credits pending ($12 fee – separate check payable to NJICLE must be submitted at the end of the program)
NY CLE (t&nt): 4.0 ethics credits

The general tuition is $219. Tuition onsite is $259.

Click here to register for The Ultimate Harry Potter CLE Experience.

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Hollywood, the Holocaust and Hate on Film – The Legal and Ethical Risks in Preempting History for Artistic Ends
Hyatt Morristown | 9 a.m. to 12:35 p.m.

Moderator/Speaker:
Raymond M. Brown Jr., Esq.
Scarinci Hollenbeck, LLC, Lyndhurst
Speakers:
Emmy-nominated Film Maker, Joshua M. Greene
Writer, Producer, Historian, Former Director of Strategic Planning for the United Nations Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders
Rachel Schaff, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor, Ithaca College
Fulbright IIE Fellow to the Czech Republic in 2015-16

About The Program:
The compulsion to find a redemptive message at the heart of the Holocaust challenges the efforts of lawyers, educators, and others concerned by aesthetic representations of history. What are the consequences of re-imagining “history’s darkest hour” in movies, novels, and other fictional accounts? Cinematic representations of the Holocaust work as vehicles of public memory, as they present a vision of the past that responds to the dominant values within a society at a particular point in history. In this special CLE presentation, author/filmmaker Joshua M. Greene, film historian Rachel Schaff, and acclaimed attorney Raymond Brown Jr. explore the existential tensions surrounding artistic interpretations of the Holocaust and what they mean today.

The program uses clips from Academy Award-winning films, readings from popular works, and excerpts from witness video testimony to reveal our unconscious biases about the Holocaust and challenge our definitions of terms such as heroism and courage, and highlight the differences between history as it really was and history as we may have preferred it to be.

Even non-fiction re-imagines historical experience. This program is meant to challenge and educate you, and invites discussion about the complexities of Holocaust representation, the causes behind Hollywood’s romanticized depiction of resistance and survival, and their implications for men and women in legal practice. You will walk away with a better understanding of the impact of traumatic events on the public, the depiction of historical events, and how our view of the past is shaped by present day values.

The presentation is based on the work of the three special speakers. Joshua Greene’s acclaimed PBS documentary, “Witness: Voices from the Holocaust,” received a Gold Special Jury Award at the Houston International Film Festival, and was voted Best Social Documentary at the New York International Film & Video Festival. The companion book is published by Simon & Schuster. Dr. Schaff will draw on her extensive research that addresses questions of moving image melodrama across various cinematic forms and national contexts as they relate to the institutionalization of Holocaust memorialization. Raymond M. Brown Jr. will draw on his many years as a trial lawyer which include a number of high-profile trials involving government officials and his international experience in qualifying as Counsel before the International Criminal Court in The Hague and serving as Co-Lead Defense Counsel at the Special Court for Sierra Leone.

Join us for a meet and greet after the program and receive an autographed copy of one of Joshua Greene’s books:

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 4.0 hours of total CLE credit.
NJ CLE: This program has been approved for 4.0 credits (50 minute hour)
PA CLE: 3.0 substantive credits pending ($12 fee – separate check payable to NJICLE must be submitted at the end of the program)
NY CLE (t&nt): 4.0 professional practice credits

The tuition for NJSBA members is $172. The general tuition is $215. Tuition onsite is $255.

Click here to register for Hollywood, the Holocaust and Hate on Film.

Click here to download a form to register for either seminar.
Click here for a form to register a group.
For questions or to register by phone, please contact an association representative at 732-214-8500.

All the best,
Barbara

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Barbara Straczynski
Director of New Media and Promotions
New Jersey State Bar Association
New Brunswick NJ
(732) 937-7524
[email protected]
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