Wednesday, December 14, 2022
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time)
CBA Law Center and Virtual (CLE Pass Eligible)
30 Bank Street,
New Britain,
Connecticut,
This Program has been changed to a Webinar.
Presented by the CT Bar Institute
About the Program
Learn about legal ethics from the three lawyers who together have over 50 years of experience in prosecuting and defending legal ethics cases and receive a full year of required legal ethics CLE. Mark Dubois will speak about the 140-year history of legal ethics codification and enforcement in the US. Attorney David Channing, a long-serving member of the Grievance Committee, will speak about the makeup of the Committee, and what works and what doesn't in advocacy before it. Jamie Sullivan will speak about how to defend against a grievance complaint.
Attendees will receive a discount on the purchase of the newly released 4th Ed. of Connecticut Legal Ethics and Malpractice authored by Attorneys Dubois and Sullivan, the only treatise dealing exclusively with Connecticut legal ethics and lawyer discipline.
You Will Learn
• The historical and philosophical bases for the system of lawyer self-regulation
• The most common causes of lawyer discipline complaints
• How to successfully respond to a grievance
Who Should Attend
Attorneys interested in ethics and defending against a grievance complaint.
Cost
(Includes electronic materials and parking, for virtual attendees, cost includes the resources necessary to provide virtual access)
Member $70
CLE Pass Holder $0 (you must have purchased the CLE Pass to register as a CLE Pass holder)
Student Member $20
Non-Member $140
Financial hardship information is available upon request.
CLE Credit
CT: 2.0 CLE Credits (Ethics)
NY: 2.0 CLE Credits (Ethics)
The Connecticut Bar Association/CT Bar Institute is an accredited provider of New York State CLE. This program qualifies for transitional and non-transitional CLE credits.
Attorneys seeking NY CLE credit who have been admitted to the New York State Bar for two years or less must attend the live seminar for skills or ethics credit, or a fully interactive videoconference. Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias CLE credits are only available as non-transitional credits. For further information about transitional and non-transitional courses, please see the NYCourts.gov page on CLE: http://ww2.nycourts.gov/attorneys/cle/index.shtml.
If the seminar is recorded, all member registrants will receive complimentary access to the recording approximately six weeks after the program. Please note that refunds will not be granted once course materials have been sent. Cancellations made less than 2 business days prior to event are non-refundable.
Closed captioning will be available during the seminar presentation for virtual attendees.