Total Credits: 1.0 Self Study
Note: This material qualifies for self-study credit only. Pursuant to Regulation 15.04.5, a lawyer may receive up to six hours of self-study credit in a reporting year. Self-study programs do not qualify for ethics, elimination of bias or Kansas credit.
The ABA recently provided some ethics guidance that every lawyer needs to understand. Opinion 491 that impacts a lawyer’s responsibility to discover their client’s corrupt practices. The fact that the concern came from drug dealers and terrorists makes the story of that opinion super interesting. Join nationally recognized teacher Stuart Teicher, Esq., as he tells an intriguing international tale and explains some important ethics rules that apply to lawyers, regardless of their practice area. (Rules 1.6, and 1.2 also covered
Speaker: Stuart Teicher, The CLE Performer
| What Drug Dealers and Terrorists teach about the Ethics Rules (0.47 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| MOLAP Information (0.20 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
Stuart I. Teicher, Esq. is a professional legal educator who focuses on ethics law and writing instruction. A practicing attorney for over two decades, Stuart’s career is now dedicated to helping fellow attorneys survive the practice of law and thrive in the profession. Mr. Teicher teaches seminars, provides in-house training to law firms and legal departments, provides CLE instruction at law firm client events, and also gives keynote speeches at conventions and association meetings.
Stuart helps attorneys get better at what they do (and enjoy the process) through his entertaining and educational CLE Performances. He speaks, teaches, and writes—Thomson Reuters published his book entitled, Navigating the Legal Ethics of Social Media and Technology.
Mr. Teicher is a Supreme Court appointee to the New Jersey District Ethics Committee where he investigates and prosecutes grievances filed against attorneys. Mr. Teicher is an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown Law where he teaches Professional Responsibility, and he is an adjunct professor at Rutgers University in New Brunswick where he teaches undergraduate writing courses.
