Total Credits: 7.2 MCLE, 6.6 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. | Self audit for lawyer trust accounting
Speaker: Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel representative
10:50-11 a.m. | Break
11-11:50 a.m. | Staying safe with modern technology
Speaker: Stuart Teicher
11:50-noon | Break
Noon-12:30 p.m. | Understanding your resources at The Missouri Bar
This program provides a quick overview of Bar resources. Your dues already cover or discount a range of professional assistance; make sure you know how to take full advantage of the Bar's mission to help lawyers better serve their clients and communities.
Learning objectives:
Speaker: Cody Dickerson, CLE Attorney, The Missouri Bar, Jefferson City
12:30-1 p.m. | Lunch (provided)
1-1:50 p.m. | Panel: Strengths-based living in law: Overcoming adversity and building career satisfaction
Moderator: Erin R. McClernon, Moderator, Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart PC, Kansas City
1-1:50 p.m. | Topic TBD
Speakers: TBD
1:50-2 p.m. | Break
2-2:30 p.m. | Getting to know the Missouri Legal Ethics Counsel & Advisory Committee of the Supreme Court of Missouri
This session will help lawyers understand the role of the Legal Ethics Counsel and Advisory Committee, including the structure of the entities, how to request informal opinions or formal opinions, how to use the resources of the OLEC website, and other functions.
Learning objectives:
Speaker: Melinda J. Bentley, Office of Legal Ethics Counsel & Advisory Committee of the Supreme Court of Missouri, Jefferson City
2:30-2:40 p.m. | Break
2:40-3:30 p.m. | Speaking to clients and keeping clients
Speaker: Stuart Teicher
3:30-3:40 p.m. | Break
3:40-4:30 p.m. | LIFEtime management: An ethical answer to time management
Speaker: Stuart Teicher
4:30 p.m. | Adjourn
Opinions and positions stated by presenters of MoBarCLE programs are those of the presenters and not necessarily those of The Missouri Bar. This program is intended as information for lawyers in Missouri, in conjunction with other research they deem necessary, in the exercise of their independent judgment.
Melinda J. Bentley serves as Legal Ethics Counsel in Missouri where she provides oral and written informal advisory opinions to attorneys on issues related to the Missouri Rules of Professional Conduct. In that position, she also serves as administrator and counsel to the Advisory Committee of the Supreme Court of Missouri. She began serving in that position in 2012. Prior to that she worked for the Illinois State Bar Association as Assistant Counsel from 2001-03, First Assistant Counsel from 2003-11, and Assistant Director of Legislative Affairs from 2009-11. She is a frequent speaker and author on professional responsibility matters. Ms. Bentley currently serves as a member of the ABA Professionalism Committee, the Planning Committee for The Missouri Bar Solo and Small Firm Conference, and the National Organization of Bar Counsel’s Committees on Amicus, Website, and Program. She was a board member and officer of the National Organization of Bar Counsel from 2015-2020, including a term as President from 2018-2019, and formerly served on the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility (2020-2023), Editorial Board of the ABA/BNA Lawyers’ Manual on Professional Conduct as a member (2015-2016) and Chair (2016-2018), Co-Chair of the Planning Committee for the American Bar Association (ABA) Center for Professional Responsibility’s National Conference on Professional Responsibility (2024-2025), and is as well as a member of the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility Coordinating Council (2016-2018; 2024-2025). She is licensed in both Missouri and Illinois, and is a member of The Missouri Bar, Illinois State Bar Association, American Bar Association, National Organization of Bar Counsel, Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, Cole County Bar Association, and Mid-Missouri Women Lawyers’ Association.
As the Missouri Bar's CLE Attorney, Cody is tasked with selecting the Bar's CLE offerings and linking them to learning objectives that best help Missouri attorneys serve their clients. Prior to law school at Wash. U., Cody served four years in the U.S. Foreign Service where he developed and implemented trainings for onboarding new visa adjudicators, identifying business visa fraud, and improving anti-trafficking practices.
Erin is the Attorney Development Manager and Well-Being Working Group Chair at Ogletree Deakins. After twelve years practicing law, she now helps lawyers successfully navigate their careers and well-being. Erin serves on The Missouri Bar’s Well-Being Committee, speaks regularly on well-being topics, and has been recognized nationally for her work.
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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Metered parking is available along most of McCarty Street; Parking on McCarty Street to the west of The Missouri Bar Building is 10-hr. metered parking; Parking on McCarty Street to the east of The Missouri Bar Building is free parking; The Missouri Bar is not responsible for parking fees for this seminar.
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