Total Credits: 6.6 MCLE, 6.0 Ethics
8:30-9 a.m. | Registration and continental breakfast
9-9:50 a.m. | Charting a personal path
Speaker: Stuart Teicher, The CLE Performer
9:50-10 a.m. | Break
10-10:50 a.m. | IOLTA & trust accounting issues
Speaker: Kelly Dillon, Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel, Jefferson City
10:50-11 a.m. | Break
11-11:50 a.m. | Strengths based living in law: Overcoming adversity and building career satisfaction
Moderator: Erin R. McClernon, Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC, Kansas City
Panelists: Shirley J. Rukcic, City of St. Louis Treasurer's Office, St. Louis; Robert H. Wendt, The Wendt Law Firm, St. Louis
11:50 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | Lunch (provided)
12:30-1 p.m. | Resources and services from The Missouri Bar
Speaker: Maria A. Sanders, Director of CLE & Member Services, The Missouri Bar, Jefferson City
1-1:10 p.m. | Break
1:10-2 p.m. | Staying safe with modern technology
Speaker: Stuart Teicher
2-2:10 p.m. | Break
2:10-3 p.m. | Trust accounting scenarios
Speaker: Kelly Dillon
3-3:10 p.m. | Break
3:10-4 p.m. | Speaking to clients and keeping clients
Speaker: Stuart Teicher
4 p.m. | Adjourn
Kelly Dillon is an investigative examiner-paralegal for the Missouri Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel where her duties include oversight of the Trust Account Overdraft Notification Program, conducting financial examinations and other investigations. Kelly is a Certified Fraud Examiner and has been with the Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel since 2001.
Erin R. McClernon, Esq. is Manager of Attorney Development at Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart PC. In this role, she assists in the development, design, and administration of a wide variety of internal programs and initiatives that support and enhance the personal and professional development of the firm’s almost 900 lawyers around the globe. She also facilitates the firm’s Well-Being Working Group, which proposes, plans, and executes firm wide well-being initiatives and strategies for both legal and administrative staff.
Prior to joining Ogletree Deakins, Erin practiced general business and commercial litigation for twelve years in a large national law firm, first as an associate and then as a partner. She regularly calls upon her deep knowledge and experience to develop and deliver programming that is designed to help the legal professionals at Ogletree Deakins thrive.
Erin is an avid supporter of the lawyer well-being movement and currently serves as the facilitator of the Education Working Group for The Missouri Bar’s Lawyers Living Well initiative. She is a member of the Institute for Well-Being in the Law’s Programming Committee and will serve as an adjunct professor in Fall 2022 for a well-being-focused course at the University of Missouri - Columbia School of Law.
Erin has been an active member of the KCMBA’s Lawyer Well-Being Committee from its inception in early 2018 and served as chair of the KCMBA’s Second and Third Annual Lawyer Well-Being Summits. She also acts as the KCMBA’s liaison to the Kansas State Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being.
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.
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