Ripped From the Headlines (And Your Life): Realistic Ethics Hypos

Partner Jonathan Wong is speaking on legal ethics at the ACBA 2016 MCLE Compliance Countdown among other speakers with topics from competence issues to elimination of bias.

 

Schedule:
8:20 am – 8:45 am – Breakfast and Registration

Session 1: 8:45 am – 10:45 am
Title: Demystifying the California State Bar Disciplinary Process: How to Avoid Getting in Trouble
2 hrs Legal Ethics credit
Speakers: Heather E. Abelson, Ret. State Bar Prosecutor, Judge Catherine D. Purcell, Presiding Judge, State Bar Court of California

Session 2: 10:55 am – 11:55 am
Title: Inebriation, Intervention, and Insight: Lessons From Losing
1 hr Competence Issues credit
Speaker: Gary Gwilliam, Gwilliam, Ivary, Chiosso, Cavalli & Brewer

Session 3: 12:10 pm – 1:40 pm
1.5 hrs Elimination of Bias credit
Speaker: Justice Goodwin H. Liu, California Supreme Court

Session 4: 1:50  pm – 3:50 pm
Title: Ripped from the Headlines (And Your Life) – The Realistic Hypos Ethics Discussion
2 hrs Legal Ethics credit
Speakers: Tiela Chalmers, CEO, Alameda County Bar Association and Volunteer Legal Services Corporation; Jonathan McNeil Wong, Donahue Fitzgerald LLP

Continuing Education

MCLE:
4 hrs Legal Ethics
1.5 hrs Elimination of Bias
1 hr Competence Issues

Speakers

Additional Speakers

Tiela Chalmers
CEO
Alameda County Bar Association and Volunteer Legal Services Corporation