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Seminar Title: Top 10 Ethics Challenges
Instructor: James Wrenn, Jr., J.D.
2012 Seminar offered via live toll-free conference call 1-3pmET (unless otherwise noted):
Jun 29 (4-6pmET), Jul 17, Aug 14, Sep 4, Oct 9, Oct 23, Nov 20, Dec 4
Description:
Interactive seminar focusing on the application of appropriate ethical standards in ten challenging contexts. The contexts focus not solely on challenges facing lawyers individually but also those facing firms as well as the legal profession at large.
The instructor leads participants through interactive analysis of what the instructor suggests may be the "top ten" challenges in the field of ethics in the 21st Century. Some of these "top ten" issues have their greatest impact on the practice of individual lawyers (whether solo or in firms) and others have their greatest impact on firms generally and/or on the legal profession at large as we progress further into the rapidly changing era of the 21st Century.
Credit Hours: 2.0 CLE Hours (Ethics)
Accreditation:
AL, AR, CA, CO, DE, IA, IN, KS, MS, NC, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, PA, SC, TX, VA, VT, WA, WI: 2 hrs ethics
MO, WV: 2.4 hrs ethics
OK: 2.5 hrs ethics
TN: 2 hrs dual
GA: 2 general
NJ: This program has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 2 hours of total CLE ethics credit.
This program has been accredited by the Law Society of Upper Canada for 2 Professionalism Hours and 2 New Member CPD Hours.
Materials: This seminar presents a series of hypothetical scenarios raising ethical/professional issues for interactive analysis focusing on lawyers individually, on law firms and on the legal profession in general.. It also includes Appendix A containing pertinent Rules of Professional Conduct, Appendix B providing insights into the historical evolution of both ethical and civil standards governing the practice of law, and Appendix C describing a recommended methodology for properly analyzing and solving ethics problems.
Dissemination: Materials mailed/emailed as registrations are received.
Seminar Contents: (References to "Rule" mean the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct – Appendix A)
1.0 hour = Presentation of five hypothetical scenarios challenging the abilities of lawyers, law firms and the legal profession to properly apply ethical and civil standards applicable to lawyers, law firms and the profession.
1. First Hour:
01. Professional-responsibility issues in the context of email communications (MR Rule 1.6).
02. Professional-responsibility issues social-media on the internet (MR Rules 1.6,1.7,1.8,1.9, 1.10, 2.1).
03. Ethical-standard "floors" and civil-standard "ceilings." (Preamble [14][15][16][17][18][19]
04. Ethical romance or romantic ethics (MR Rules 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 2.1)
05. Post-litigation ethical issues (MR Rules 3.1, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1)
1.0 hour = Presentation of five additional hypothetical scenarios challenging the abilities of lawyers, law firms and the legal profession to properly apply ethical and civil standards applicable to law firms and the profession. Analyses and interactive discussion of a series of hypothetical problems.
2. Second Hour:
06. Is there a "Goldfarb" time-bomb for ethical standards embedded in free-trade treaties?
07. Can Multidisiplinary Practices be Reconciled with Ethical Standards? (MR Rules 1.6 through 2.1)
08. Can/Should/Does the complexity of legal issues render some ethical issues "passe"?
09. Should there be a "national" bar authorizing nationwide practice? (Conflicts-of-Laws Issues)
10. Should there be an "international" bar authorizing international practice? (Conflicts-of-Laws)
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2.00 hours = Total CLE credit.
Presenter:
James Wrenn, Jr.
14210 Michaux View Way
Midlothian, Virginia 23113
804.378.2037 804.379.7163 (fax)
jwrenn@wrennlaw.com
Education
J.D. - University of Virginia Law School (1971)
B.A. - (History) University of Richmond (1968)
Bar Membership
Virginia State Bar: Member since 1972
Admission to Practice
Virginia Supreme Court & all inferior courts of the Commonwealth of Virginia
US District Courts for Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia
US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Positions
Virginia State Bar Counsel (1976-1977)
Virginia State Bar Special Counsel (1972-1976)
Private Practice since 1977
Academic Appointments
Adjunct Instructor on Legal Ethics, University of Richmond Law School
(1978-1980)
Adjunct Professor, School of Business, Virginia Commonwealth University
(1975-1977)
Publishing/Writing/Lecturing
Author/Lecturer (pro bono) for seminars and publications by pro-bono CLE
organizations and bar associations (continually since 1975)
Author/Lecturer VLR Seminars (1986-1975) Recent Case-Law; Professional
Responsibility Issues
Editor of Virginia Law Reports (VLR) (formerly VRR) (private reporting service
for appellate case-law in Virginia) (1981-1995)
Affiliations
President, National Organization of Bar Counsel (NOBC) 1976
Virginia Sate Bar (participation on various committees not listed)
Potpourri
Major Fields of Interest: Lawyer discipline, legal ethics, reinstatement, judicial
ethics, Judicial Inquiry & Review, Commission matters, expert-witness issues
