Good afternoon Family Law Section members,
On
Wednesday, March 31, NJICLE will present
Webcast- The Virtuous Lawyer’s Grand Tour: A CLE Ethics Adventure from
9 a.m. to 12 p.m.Legal ethics is determined in places distant from the rules of any one jurisdiction, with almost daily developments that appear in new rules interpretations, court decisions, and legal ethics opinions across the country.
It has been a significant and perplexing 18 months for legal ethics, with schisms of principle and language between the ABA and major jurisdictions, rule overhauls in California and elsewhere, and, as usual, New York, Florida, D.C. and other adventurous jurisdictions charting their own paths through the thickets of controversy. Virtual technology platforms continued to create new ethical demands. Prosecutors and government attorneys encountered ethical challenges that the rules barely address. The last 18 months ended with more ethical gray areas than it began with, leaving problems that lawyers ignore at their peril.
This up to the minute interactive seminar takes attorneys on a wild and revealing tour of the most recent critical developments and controversies, from surprising discipline rulings and non-rulings (can a prosecutor ethically throw an unjust case?) to deceptive witnesses (How does a lawyer respond when she finds out her client wore a fake military medal on the stand?) to government lawyers whose true clients are a matter of debate. Within these real life ethics dramas from across the country are important lessons, resources and caveats that every lawyer need to know. Best of all, the subject matter will cover events right up to the day of the seminar.
FEATURING
Jack Marshall, Esq.Pro Ethics, Inc.
The Virtuous Lawyer’s Grand Tour will cover such issues as…
• The ethical and unethical use of information from one client’s case in another matter.
• Conflicts arising from quasi-legal or non-legal activities
• Ethics traps for municipal, state, federal and legislative government lawyers, and how to avoid them.
• How technology can make you unethical
• Fees, the non-paying client, and outsourcing ethics
• New standards of communication
• Seven real life lawyers’ ethics mistakes that everyone should know about
• …and more.
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 (All levels): 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
The general tuition is $139.Click here to register for Webcast- The Virtuous Lawyer’s Grand Tour: A CLE Ethics Adventure.
For questions or to register by phone, please contact an association representative at 732-214-8500, or by email at
[email protected].
All the best,
Barb
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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]------------------------------