Energy Law

The Legal Ethics Year in Review 2024: News You Can Use

Webinar begins at 12:00 pm Central

Past Event

MCLE Credit available

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Duration: 1 hour

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Overview

This session will be a review of the most important developments of the last year (or so) in legal ethics and lawyering. Lucian Pera will distill practical guidance from ethics opinions and case law from around the country and review what lawyers should know to protect their clients and themselves, and practice more effectively. Topics will include:

  • The latest cases and opinions on conflicts of interest
  • Remote and multi-jurisdictional practice developments
  • Handling “hot” documents
  • Wins and losses for attorney-client privilege protection
  • New guidance on lawyers leaving law firms
  • Using artificial intelligence (AI) ethically and responsibly
  • Continuing lawyer cybersecurity dangers

Webinar begins at 12:00 pm Central
Duration: 1 hour

Speaker

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Lucian T. Pera
Adams and Reese LLP
Memphis, Tennessee

Lucian T. Pera is a partner in Adams and Reese LLP, whose practice includes legal ethics, media law, and commercial litigation. He represents lawyers, law firms, and others on issues of legal ethics and lawyer professional responsibility. The ABA Center for Professional Responsibility recently bestowed on him the prestigious Michael Franck Award, their highest award for work in the field of ethics and professional responsibility over his career. A graduate of Princeton University and Vanderbilt University School of Law, he was a member of the ABA “Ethics 2000” Commission, which rewrote the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct. He chaired the Tennessee Bar Association committee that led to the adoption of significantly revised Tennessee ethics rules patterned after the Model Rules. He has chaired the governing board of the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility and the editorial board of the ABA/Bloomberg Lawyers’ Manual on Professional Conduct, and served as President of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers. He is a past Treasurer of the ABA and a past President of the Tennessee Bar Association.

Registration Options

  • $50 - Non-Member
  • $0 - IEL Member
  • $0 - IEL Supporting or Sustaining Member Employee
  • $0 - Law Student

MCLE Credit

Texas Course Number 174263730. This course has been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education credit by the State Bar of Texas Committee on MCLE in the amount of 1.0 credit hours, of which 1.0 credit hours will apply to ethics/professional responsibility credit.

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