Total Credits: 2.2 MCLE, 2.2 Ethics, 1.6 Elimination of Bias, 2.0 Kansas Credit-General, 2.0 Kansas Ethics
Program hosted by leadership of The Missouri Bar Committee on Diversity in cooperation with MoBarCLE as part of the committee’s Annual Diversity Leaders' Summit Meeting.
1:00 - 2:00 PM
2:05 - 2:55 PM
| Diversity Ethics Quiz (with answers) (426.8 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| LGBTQ Issues, State of the Law and Best Practices for Creating Inclusive Spaces (9.6 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
Whittney Dunn is a professional responsibility attorney providing legal ethics and professional responsibility advice to the attorneys of Barnes & Thornburg LLP, an AmLaw 100 firm. Whittney previously served as Senior Risk Manager at The Bar Plan, where she gave ethics CLEs and provided guidance to insureds on practicing ethically.
With more than 30 years in the practice of law, Dana has served in several positions of bar
leadership during her career, including being the first woman of color elected as President of The
Missouri Bar, in 2016. Her numerous bar-related awards include the 2020 Eighth Circuit Richard
S. Arnold Award for Distinguished Service; three President’s Awards from The Missouri Bar; a
President’s Award from the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association; the Ronda F. Williams
Spirit of Diversity Award from; and the Sly James Diversity and Inclusion Award, just to name a
few. She has been recognized as one of the Top 30 Education Law attorneys in the State of
Missouri; a Missouri Super Lawyer since 2014 and was honored as the 2018 Woman of the Year
by Missouri Lawyers Weekly at their Annual Women’s Justice Awards Luncheon. Dana has tried
more than twenty bench and jury trials.
She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English, with honors, from Spelman College in
Atlanta, Georgia, and her J.D. degree from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
When not practicing law, Dana, along with her husband and law partner Keith Cutler, are co-hosts
on a nationally syndicated daytime television courtroom show “Cutlers Court” which premiered
September 2023 after serving three years as co-judges on the two-time Emmy-nominated,
nationally syndicated daytime television courtroom show “Couples Court with the Cutlers” which
can still be seen on YouTube and other streaming services.
