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Announcements
Call for Materials on Lawyers’ Ethical Duty to Protect the Rule of Law. The American Bar Association is putting together a clearinghouse of teaching resources related to the work of the ABA Task Force for American Democracy. These include scholarship and teaching resources related to lawyers' ethical duty to protect the rule of law. If you have relevant materials you are willing to share, please send them to Doug NeJaime at douglas.nejaime@yale.edu.
Interested in responsible, ethical, and safe use of AI in legal services? Join a cross-industry group of leaders (judiciary, corporations, law firms, tech providers, access to justice orgs, etc.) to support the responsible, ethical, and safe use of AI to advance the practice of law and delivery of legal services to all? Sign up for the newly-launched RAILS (Responsible AI in Legal Services) from the Duke Center on Law & Technology. Join here.
The Legal Accountability Project Needs Your Help. Did you clerk for a judge? If so, please take a moment to compete this survey. For more information about the Legal Accountability Project and the database being created from the survey results, see here.
Events
2026
December 2-4, 2026. International Legal Ethics Conference at the University of Houston. Learn more here.
2025
January 30-February 1, 2025. Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers Mid-Year Meeting. Learn more and register here.
January 8, 2025. Section on Professional Responsibility, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, San Francisco. Learn more here.
2024
October 23, 2024. World Justice Project Rule of Law Index 2024 Launch. Learn more here.
October 23-25, 2024. ABA Forum on Access to Justice for All, Rancho Mirage, CA and virtual. This Forum is the only program of its kind to provide educational training, unique networking opportunities, and support to the access to justice commissions, IOLTA programs, and lawyer referral programs that serve as gateways to the provision of access to justice. Learn more here.
October 14, 2024. When and Why Might We ‘Cancel’ Lawyers? University College London Faculty of Laws - in-person and virtual. In his new book, Canceling Lawyers, Brad Wendel (Cornell) draws on a series of case studies to argue that there is genuine value in a system of formal law that aims at settling social disagreement, but that is not the whole story. Public criticism of lawyers may reflect the sense that the legal system has fallen short of ideals of fairness and inclusiveness. Accepting a certain amount of public criticism is necessary to avoid a dangerous isolation of the legal profession from accountability to the broader political community, or from the humanity of lawyers being submerged by their professional role. This ‘In Conversation’ event will see Brad discuss a number of the ideas and arguments in his book with Julie Norris (Kingsley Napley) and Steven Vaughan (University College London). Learn more and register here.
September 26-27 — The Role of Lawyers in Defending Democracy, Hofstra Law School. Lawyers have always played a crucial role in preserving democracy in the United States. In recent years, that role has been increasingly questioned, threatened, and manipulated. At this Fall’s Freedman Institute Symposium, leading practitioners and experts will convene to examine multiple aspects of lawyers’ responsibilities to preserve democracy. The program will include three panels, each exploring an aspect of the moral and ethical duties of lawyers when democracy is under attack, and what changes can or should be made to how the legal profession sees its obligation to defend democracy. Learn more here.
September 13 — Deadline to Submit for AALS Professional Responsibility Section 2025 Annual Meeting New Voices Workshop. The AALS Professional Responsibility Section invites papers for its program "Professional Responsibility New Voices Workshop" that will take place during the 2025 AALS Annual Meeting, January 7-11 in San Francisco. Full-time faculty members of AALS member law schools are eligible to submit papers. Preference will be given to junior scholars, and submissions from non-tenure-track faculty are welcome. There is no formal requirement as to the form or length of proposals. Abstracts are welcome. Email your submissions or questions about the workshop to the Chair-Elect of the AALS PR Section, Jon Lee (jon.lee@ou.edu), with "AALS PR New Voices" in the subject of the email.
September 1 — Deadline to Submit for Fred C. Zacharias Memorial Prize. Submissions and nominations of articles are being accepted for the fifteenth annual Fred C. Zacharias Memorial Prize for Scholarship in Professional Responsibility. To honor Fred's memory, the committee will select from among articles in the field of Professional Responsibility with a publication date of 2024. The prize will be awarded at the 2025 AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Please send submissions and nominations to Samuel Levine (Touro Law) slevine@tourolaw.edu. The deadline for submissions and nominations is September 1, 2024. To learn more about the history of this prestigious award and the past recipients, revisit LER Bonus Content No. 6.
August 1-3 — Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers Annual Meeting, Chicago. Details and registration here.
July 17-19 — International Legal Ethics Conference, University of Amsterdam. Registration opens March 14. More details here.
May 29-June 1 — 49th Annual ABA National Conference on Professional Responsibility, Denver. The National Conference on Professional Responsibility is the annual educational and networking event for lawyers who represent, prosecute, advise, and educate other lawyers on issues of ethics, discipline, professionalism, and more. I’ll be speaking on May 30 about hot topics in legal ethics along with Matthew Corbin (Aon) and Hope Todd (DC Bar). More details here.
May 27 — Submissions Due for International Association of Legal Ethics Deborah Rhode Prize for Early Career Scholars. Submissions are invited on any topic in the field of legal ethics. Papers must have been published or accepted for publication as an article in a journal or chapter in an edited book since the last prize announced at the International Legal Ethics Conference 2022. More details here.
May 19 — American Law Institute Annual Meeting, San Francisco. If you’ll be attending the ALI annual meeting, please be sure to stop by the Sunday special program featuring Judge Diane Wood, Hannah Johnson (Cal Western), and me discussing Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court. And then stick around for the ethics program “The Bot Stops Here: Issues and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and Civil Liability,” with panelists Colleen Chien, Richard Boulware, Mark Geistfeld, Tom Lue, and Andy Song. More details here.
May 8 — American Bar Foundation Conference “Emerging Insights from Access to Justice Research: Translating Ideas into Action.” Free online or in-person at Wayne State University, Detroit. Register here.
May 6-7 — ABA Center for Innovation Inaugural AI and the Practice of Law Summit in Chicago. Register here.
April 19-20 — Workshop on Professional Identity Formation in the Professional Responsibility Course at the University of St. Thomas School of Law, Minneapolis. The Holloran Center for Ethical Leadership in the Professions, in conjunction with casebook publishers, is sponsoring a workshop on incorporating professional identity formation into professional responsibility courses, including how professors primarily focused on preparing students for the MPRE can still easily incorporate professional identity into their teaching. I’ll be there, along with other casebook authors including Barbara Glesner Fines (UMKC), Bruce Green (Fordham), Peter Joy (Washington University St. Louis), Carol Needham (St. Louis), and Paula Schaefer (Tennessee). For more information, email Felicia Hamilton at hami3258@stthomas.edu.
April 10 – The Role of the Legal Profession in a Time of Crisis, co-hosted by the Freedman Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics at Hofstra Law School and the Stein Center for Law and Ethics at Fordham Law. This is the second event in a two-part series featuring Ray Brescia’s new book Lawyer Nation: The Past, Present, and Future of the American Legal Profession in conversation with my new book Law Democratized: A Blueprint for Solving the Justice Crisis. Register here. And get 30% off plus free shipping if you order both books from NYU Press – use discount code NYUP30. Speakers include Bruce Green (Fordham), Harold Koh (Yale), Becky Roiphe (NYLS), and Steve Younger (Nixon Peabody).
April 4 — Book Talk on Access to Justice and Ethics, NYU Law School Center for Race, Inequality and the Law, 6:30-7:30PM. This event brings together my book Law Democratized: A Blueprint for Solving the Justice Crisis in conversation with three others about access to justice and ethics, including Ray Brescia (Albany) Lawyer Nation: The Past, Present, and Future of the American Legal Profession; Sateesh Nori (NYU) Sheltered: Twenty Years in Housing Court; and Jane M. Spinak (Columbia) The End of Family Court: How Abolishing the Court Brings Justice to Children and Families. Register here.
March 27 — “Taylor Swift is a Genius. Even About Legal Ethics.” Tennessee Bar Association. From the program description: “Everyone knows that Taylor Swift is a music genius. But she’s made some pretty smart moves in the courtroom too. Join the CLE Performer, Stuart Teicher, Esq., as he talks about how the ethics rules are invoked in some of Taylor Swift’s run ins with the legal system.” Learn more and register at this link. (Not a Swiftie? Check out his archived webinar on legal writing “From Bach to Beyonce” here)
March 26 — Jeffrey Clark Disbarment Hearing Begins. This trial will be live-streamed on YouTube, and is scheduled for March 26-29 and April 1-5. (It was previously set for January.)
March 15 — Symposium on Ethics in the Judiciary and the Legal Profession: Are We in Crisis? Cardozo Law School is hosting this in-person event, which starts at 9AM and is open to the public. A caveat—I’m one of the invited speakers. Speakers include: Melissa Murray (NYU), Richard Painter (Minnesota), James Sample (Hofstra), Sung Hui Kim (UCLA), Rebecca Roiphe (New York Law), W. Bradley Wendel (Cornell), Ian Ayres (Yale), Deborah Pearlstein (Princeton), and Daniel Richman (Columbia). More information here.
March 7 — Tackling Root Causes & Overcoming the Middle-Class Access to Justice Problem, Above the Line Network, a collaboration of IAALS and the Chicago Bar Foundation. This FREE webinar features Roya Samarghandi (Chicago Bar Foundation), Jessica Bednarz (IAALS), Bill Henderson (Indiana Law), Daniel Hernandez (NextLevel Law), and Gabby Majewski (DC Affordable Law Firm). Learn more and register here, CLE credit available.
March 6 – The Role of the Legal Profession in a Time of Crisis, co-hosted by the Freedman Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics at Hofstra Law School and the Stein Center for Law and Ethics at Fordham Law. This two-part series will feature Ray Brescia’s new book Lawyer Nation: The Past, Present, and Future of the American Legal Profession in conversation with my new book Law Democratized: A Blueprint for Solving the Justice Crisis. Both events are from 6:10-8PM on Zoom, with the second on April 10. Register here. And get 30% off plus free shipping if you order both books from NYU Press – use discount code NYUP30. Other speakers include Deborah Enix-Ross (Debevoise), Dan Rodriguez (Northwestern), James Sandman (Penn), and Ellen Yaroshefsky (Hofstra).
March 1 — 30th Annual Ethics Symposium: Lawyer as an Advocate, hosted by South Texas Law Review, 9AM-5:30PM. This symposium will provide attendees with insights on the ethical considerations in developing areas of advocacy. More details here.
February 28-March 1 — Access to Justice and the Future of Justice Work Conference, Arizona State University. Register for this FREE event here. I’ll be delivering the keynote, discussing Law Democratized: A Blueprint for Solving the Justice Crisis.
February 20 — People’s Parity Project Reading Group on What to Do About the Courts. This reading group will address disempowering the courts: how to understand the problem, historical and international perspectives on disempowerment reform efforts, the strengths and weaknesses of the tools available to us, as well as what building up a political movement around disempowering the courts might look like. Speakers include Niko Bowie, Aziz Rana, Sabeel Rahman, Amy Kapczynski, Ryan Doerfler, Samuel Moyn, and Astra Taylor. Register here for this FREE, virtual event. Future dates include March 19, April 16, May 28, and June 25.
February 13 — Legal, Political, and Ethical Dimensions of Presidential Indictments: Federal and State Considerations, University of Houston Law Center. Register for this FREE, virtual event here, which will be held from 4-6PM central. (Approved for 2 hours of Texas MCLE credit, of which .50 is ethics credit.) Speakers include University of Houston faculty members Len Baynes, Jessica Bregant, Seth Chandler, Jeronimo Cortina, Jim Granato, and me! I’ll be focusing on the ethics surrounding the lawyers indicted alongside the former president.
February 9 — Fordham Urban Law Journal Symposium: With People Struggling and the Law Failing, What are the Solutions to the Access to Justice Crisis in America? Speakers include: Matthew Diller (Fordham), David Udell (National Center for Access to Justice), Lauren Sudeall (Vanderbilt), Norrinda Brown (Fordham), Tehra Coles (Center for Family Representation), Andrew Scherer (New York Law School), Neil Steinkamp (Stout), Rasheedah Phillips (PolicyLink), Larisa Bowman (Stanford), Bob Glaves (Chicago Bar Foundation), John Pollock (National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel), Radikha Singh (National Legal Aid and Defender Association), Bruce Green (Fordham), Matthew Burnett (American Bar Foundation), Michele Pistone (Villanova), Tanina Rostain (Georgetown), Rebecca Sandefur (Arizona State), Sateesh Nori (NYU), Ray Brescia (Albany), Hon. Glenn Grant, Laurel Jones (National Center for Access to Justice), and Janet Sabel (NYU). In-person and on Zoom. Register here.
February 7 — International Legal Ethics Conference Call for Papers Deadline. Submissions opened last week for the 10th biennial meeting of the International Legal Ethics Association, which will be held July 17-19, 2024, in Amsterdam. (I love this conference. It’s where I got my start as a legal ethics scholar, a wonderful community of academics and experts who care deeply about lawyer and judicial ethics.) More information here.
February 1-3 — Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers Mid-Year Meeting. Register here.
February 1-3 — Legal Services Corporation's 2024 Innovations in Technology Conference, Charlotte, NC. Hundreds of technologists, legal aid advocates, court personnel, law school professors, pro bono coordinators, and other professionals will gather to explore cutting-edge technology projects that are revolutionizing access to justice and enhancing the provision of high-quality legal representation for low-income individuals. Register here.
January 30 — LawDroid Inaugural AI Conference. This free event will help you “master the latest AI advancements that can revolutionize your legal practice.” Topics will include “the intricacies of AI policy to ensure your practice remains compliant and informed.” (H/T Tom Martin) Learn more and register here.
January 29 - February 1 — Legalweek. Annual conference highlighting legal tech and the business of legal service delivery. Register here.
January 25 — The Future of Legal Services, Part II: AI & The Law with Richard Susskind. This free virtual webinar on the impact of AI in legal services, including ethics issues. 3PM eastern. Register here.
January 23 — The University of Texas Center for Women in Law Hosts Book Talk “Tread Loudly” by Kristine Cherek. In-person and via Zoom, at this free event Cherek will share her two-decade journey as an attorney, corporate executive, and college professor, offering wit, wisdom, and insight to inspire and move you to action in your careers and life. 11AM eastern. Register here.
January 10 — US Supreme Court Argument in Smith v. Arizona. The question presented here is whether a prosecutor may use expert testimony about evidence not actually admitted with proper foundation. In this case, the evidence was testimony from an expert about a report prepared by a different crime lab analyst who no longer worked at the lab (and did not appear at trial). Read more about SCOTUS cases this term involving legal ethics issues at Bonus Content No. 3. Listen to the argument live here.
January 5 — Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, Professional Responsibility Section Program on “The Duties of Lawyers to Constitutional Governance.” Attending the AALS meeting in Washington DC? If so join us from 10-11:40AM. I’m one of the panel speakers along with Lonnie Brown (Tennessee), Stephen Gillers (NYU), Rebecca Roiphe (NYLS), and Margaret Tarkington (IU).
December 19 — Funeral Service for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Washington National Cathedral. The service was broadcast live and the recording is now available. You can see my photos and read my reflections about attending in this Bonus Content post.
December 1 — Georgia State Law Review Call for Papers Deadline — “AI & the Law: Practice, Ethics, & Access.” The Georgia State Law Review has announced its 2024 Symposium: “AI & the Law: Practice, Ethics, & Access.” The Law Review invites authors to submit articles or essays for Volume 40, Issue 4 for publication in a Symposium Edition. More details here.
November 30 — How I Lawyer Podcast Live in DC. Join host Jonah Perlin as he interviews Eli Albrecht (SMB Law Group) and Jordana Confino (JC Coaching and Counseling) as they discuss “Positive Lawyering in Practice: Stories about Finding Well-Being as Lawyers.” The event starts at 5:30 PM, hosted by DLA Piper in DC. More information and registration here.
November 29 — Supreme Court Oral Argument in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy. This case involves three different issues, one of which may impact how administrative law judges are used across all administrative agencies, not just the Securities and Exchange Commission. As this Wall Street Journal op-ed puts it: “The fundamental constitutional problem is that the SEC combines enforcement and judicial power, acting as prosecutor, judge and jury.” For more on the potential impact to the work of administrative law judges if the decision below is allowed to stand, check out my Bonus Content No. 3 post “Legal Ethics on Upcoming SCOTUS Docket.” You can listen to the argument live at this link.
November 22 — John Eastman California State Bar Hearing. Final written closing arguments are due November 22, and presumably we will have a final decision on disbarment by the end of the year. (H/T Luke Johnson)
November 16 — Senate Judiciary Committee Meeting on Subpoenas Relating to the Supreme Court Ethics Investigation. At 10AM eastern, the Committee will convene. Watch live here.
November 16 — Book Discussion on Big Money Unleashed: The Campaign to Deregulate Election Spending. The UCI Law Center for Empirical Research on the Legal Profession will host an online discussion from 3-4PM pacific with Ann Southworth (UCI) about her forthcoming book which will be published in December. Comments by: John Bliss (University of Denver), Bryant Garth (UCI), Richard L. Hasen (UCLA), Mary Ziegler (UC Davis). Moderated by: Swethaa Ballakrishnen (UCI). More information and registration here.
November 15 — The Legal Ethics of Self-Care, Engage Workspace for Lawyers, Dallas. Engage Workspace for Lawyers is hosting an Ethics CLE presented by Heather Moulder, J.D., of Course Correction Coaching from 11:45AM-1PM at its Dallas co-working office space. Attendees will earn 60-minutes of Ethics CLE credit, and complimentary lunch will be provided. More information and registration here.
November 7 — Federal Bar Association, Webinar: A Conversation on Ethics and the United States Supreme Court. From the program description “Over the years, there has been much debate about the creation of legislation that would set ethics rules for the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as what such rules would cover and how they could be enforced.” Speakers include: Virginia Canter (Chief Ethics Counsel for CREW, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington), Hon. Andre M. Davis (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (Ret.)), and Charles G. Geyh (Indiana University). The webinar is live from 2-3PM eastern. More details here.
October 31 — U.S. Supreme Court Oral Argument in Lindke & O’Connor Ratcliff Cases. The Court agreed to hear two cases involving the same issue—can public officials block people on their personal social media accounts?The outcomes are relevant to lawyer and judicial speech for at least two reasons. First, the ability to block users likely matters to the many judges who use Facebook, Twitter, and other social media tools as well as lawyers who are public officials and post on social media. Second, these cases pick up on a Supreme Court decision from 2006 involving a lawyer-whistleblower, Los Angeles district attorney Richard Ceballos. Listen live here.
October 25 — World Justice Project Rule of Law Index 2023 Virtual Release. Join live at 10AM eastern for the virtual release of the latest Rule of Law Index. More information and free registration here.
October 24-25 — Generative AI in Legal Practice Summit, Centre for Legal Innovation at the College of Law, Australia. This free, virtual two-day event will feature presenters and panelists worldwide covering a range of topics, including ethical obligations surrounding generative AI. The session “Legal Professional Responsibility in the Digital Age - Critical, Outdated, or Redundant?” looks especially provocative. Participants can register here. You can attend as many sessions as you wish, and if you can’t make it in real time the session recordings will be sent to you. I had the opportunity to work with Terri Mottershead, executive director of the Centre, while a Fulbright in Melbourne during 2019. This promises to be another of her excellent and informative events.
October 23, 24, 30 — John Eastman California State Bar Hearing. Members of the public are permitted to watch the proceedings live. The link to watch is here. The hearing is set to start at noon on the 23rd, 3PM on the 24th, and noon on the 30th (all eastern time). Past coverage of the Eastman hearing can be found in Bonus Content No. 2.
October 24 — Law & Society Annual Meeting Submission Deadline. Planning to attend the LSA annual meeting in Denver next spring? Get your proposals for papers and panels submitted. More information here.
October 19 — Book Talk: “Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe: Complicity and Conscience in America's World War II Concentration Camps,” Cardozo Law School. If you’re in NYC this week, stop by this book talk from 6-7PM eastern. You might recall that the book was a recommended read in Roundup No. 10. Register here.
October 18 — 27th National College on Judicial Conduct and Ethics, Washington DC. Hosted by the National Center for State Courts. More information here.
October 17 — John Eastman California State Bar Hearing. Members of the public are permitted to watch the proceedings live, which are set to resume October 17. The link to watch is here. (Past coverage of the Eastman hearing, including John Yoo’s testimony, is in my Bonus Content No. 2 post.)
October 16 — Rutgers Law School Online Teach-In on Gaza. Start time is 12 eastern - free registration here.
October 5 — Closing the Justice Gap Webinar. Join virtually from 12-1pm CST to learn about the “justice gap” in our country and how the Legal Services Corporation, leaders from across industries, legal aid organizations, and you can come together to close the gap. Speakers include: Hari Osofsky, Dean of Northwestern Pritzker School of Law; John Gallo, CEO and Executive Director of Legal Aid Chicago; David Layfer & Josh Meltzer, members of the Legal Services Corporation’s Emerging Leaders Council. Link for free registration here.
October 5 — Navigating the Future of Legal Artificial Intelligence: Ethics, Law and Policy Webinar Series, Sheppard Mullin. Presenters James Gatto and Jerry Levine will tackle the ethical dimensions of lawyers using generative AI (GenAI) in connection with providing legal services in this virtual presentation. 11AM Eastern. With approved CLE ethics credit. Link for free registration here.
October 3, 4 & 6 — John Eastman California State Bar Hearing. Members of the public are permitted to watch the proceedings live, which are set to continue these dates, with John Droz and Kurt Olsen both testifying on October 3. The link to watch is here. (Past coverage of the Eastman hearing, including John Yoo’s testimony, is in my Bonus Content No. 2 post.)
October 4 — Supreme Court Oral Argument in Acheson Hotels LLC v. Laufer. This is the first of the five cases on the Court’s docket this term (so far, at least) involving legal ethics issues. While the primary focus is on standing for so-called “testers” in civil rights cases, the plaintiff has dealt with an array of unethical lawyers and that may impact her case. You can listen to the argument live at this link. I’ll provide full coverage in next week’s roundup. If you want to learn more now, check out my Bonus Content No. 3 post “Legal Ethics on Upcoming SCOTUS Docket.”
September 26-29 — John Eastman California State Bar Hearing. Members of the public are permitted to watch the proceedings live, which are set to resume on September 26, when John Yoo will take the stand again. The link to watch is here. (My past coverage of Yoo’s testimony is here.)
September 21. Accountability and the Future of the Supreme Court sponsored by The Monroe H. Freedman Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics at Hofstra University. Leading experts, judges, ethicists, and journalists will convene to examine Supreme Court ethics and accountability. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse will deliver a keynote, followed by three panels including one featuring me(!) alongside New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie and Gibson Dunn partner Thomas Dupree. Registration and the full schedule here.
September 20-21. ABA National Legal Malpractice Conference, Chicago. Registration here.
September 15 — Call for Papers Deadline. The Association of American Law Schools Professional Responsibility Section invites papers for its program "2024 New Voices Workshop." Those selected will present at the January 2024 annual meeting in DC. There is no formal requirement as to the form or length of proposals. Send them to Ben Edwards (benjamin.edwards@unlv.edu) and include “Submission – AALS PR New Voices Program 2024" in the email title.
September 14 — Guardians of Generative AI: Upholding Ethics and Law in an Age of Unreliable Output. The Chicago chapter of the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists is hosting a lunch and roundtable from 11:30-1:30PM to “engage with real-world scenarios, uncover the ethical complexities, and gain insights into the evolving regulatory framework guiding AI's integration into law.” More information here.
September 13 — Women Lawyers in Leadership, NYC & virtual. Topics include leadership, ethics and professional responsibility, DEI, law practice management and related themes. More info here.
September 13 — John Eastman California State Bar Hearing. Members of the public are permitted to watch the proceedings live, which are set to resume on September 13. The link to watch is here.
September 12 — MPRE Registration Deadline. Planning to take the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam on November 2 or 3? Get registered here.
September 12 — Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection (Ethics): Essentials for Lawyers, Baker Hostetler — virtual. A free, one-hour panel discussion will cover ethical obligations and professional responsibilities regarding data protection, protecting confidential data, supervising others with access to confidential data, and inadvertent or unauthorized disclosures of confidential information. (CLE ethics credit available.) Register here.
September 11 — Ken Paxton Impeachment Trial. The impeachment proceedings for the Texas attorney general continue September 11. More information here.
September 8 — Emory Law Annual Symposium on Ethics and Professionalism. The focus for this year’s symposium is Supreme Court legitimacy: stare decisis, democratic institutions, and the shadow docket. The event is being hosted by law professor Tonja Jacobi. More details here.
September 7 — 2023-24 Annual Law & Ethics Lecture, University of Michigan Law School. Professor Mitchell Berman from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School will deliver a talk entitled, “Constitutional Law, the Supreme Court, and the Ethics of Judging.” More information here.
September 5 — John Eastman California State Bar Hearing. Members of the public are permitted to watch the proceedings live, which are set to resume on September 5. The link to watch is here.
September 5 — Ken Paxton Impeachment Trial. The impeachment proceedings for the Texas attorney general begin September 5. The public may attend in person, but only with a ticket distributed starting at 7:30AM daily. More information here.
September 1. Submissions and nominations of articles are being accepted for the fourteenth annual Fred C. Zacharias Memorial Prize for Scholarship in Professional Responsibility. To honor Fred's memory, the Association of American Law Schools Committee on Professional Responsibility will select from among articles in the field with a publication date of 2023. The prize will be awarded at the 2024 AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. Send submissions and nominations to Samuel Levine at slevine@tourolaw.edu.
August 27-29 — Seventh Circuit Judicial Conference, Lake Geneva, WI. I will be speaking with my co-author Hannah Johnson, California Western Law School, about our book Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court, in conversation with Judge Diane Wood, drawing from an interview the three of us did earlier this year for Duke Law’s Judicature magazine. Other speakers include Dan Linna, Northwestern Law, on AI and the Law, and Wendy Muchman, Northwestern Law, along with Terri Garland, Attorneys’ Liability Assurance Society, on Ethical Implications of Remote and Multi-Jurisdictional Practice and other Significant Developments in Legal Ethics. Justice Amy Coney Barrett is also scheduled to deliver remarks. More info here.
August 22-25 — John Eastman California State Bar Hearings. Members of the public are permitted to watch the proceedings live. They begin Tuesday, August 22 at 10AM pacific and are set to start at the same time the rest of the week. The schedule is here and the link to watch is here.
August 25 — What Hat Am I Wearing? Legal Ethics in Corporate, M&A, and Other Matters, virtual. Free CLE from Nixon Peabody. More info here.
August 23 & September 1 — Free Ethics Training for CA Lawyers on Rule 8.3 Mandatory Reporting. As of August 1, 2023, all California lawyers must comply with Rule of Professional Conduct 8.3, which requires reporting credible evidence of another lawyer engaging in certain conduct. The State Bar is providing a free continuing legal education course about the new rule. Learn more and register here.
Learn About Generative AI for the Legal Profession. A new online course launched by Josh Kubicki promises to put participants “in the top 1% of ChatGTP/GPT-4 users in the legal market … all while being mindful of security, privacy, and ethical risks.” A caveat—I haven’t yet explored the course myself, but I’ve long been a fan of Kubicki’s work. (Don’t just take my word for it. Check out what Fast Company had to say about his teaching when he won their 2022 Innovation by Design Award.) And for the judges reading this newsletter, I have especially good news — he’s offering the course FREE to all judges. More info here.
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