Ethics Tonight (2021)
Total Credits: 3.0 including 3.0 Ethics
- Average Rating:
- 957
- Categories:
- Ethics
- Faculty:
- Mark Bassingthwaighte | Timothy Petumenos | Philip Shanahan
- Duration:
- 3 Hours 15 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- License:
- Never Expires.
Description
Ethics Tonight
3.0 Ethics CLE Credits | CLE #2021-311
Registration fee: FREE
Registration for Non-Bar Members: $95
Moderated by: Mark Bassingthwaithe, Esq., Risk Manager with ALPS
Panel Members: Phil Shanahan, Bar Counsel, Alaska Bar Association and Tim Petumenos, Law Office of Tim Petumenos
Program Description:
This program is a three-part video series. It starts with the playing of a 15-minute video vignette entitled “Losing Control.” The issues presented include the use of indemnification provisions in fee agreements, law firms as clients of professional employer organizations, the no-contact rule and pushing ethical boundaries. Part two is a 10-minute video vignette entitled “Story Time.” The issues presented in part two include lawyer mobility in general, switching sides, inadvertent misdelivery, and limited scope representation. Finally, part three is a 7.5-minute video vignette entitled “Jump Shifts” The issues presented in this final vignette include the obligations of a successor counsel post termination of the original contingent fee counsel, vishing and smishing, winding up a practice, and the sale of a practice.
A Sampling of Attendee Takeaways:
- An understanding of the pros and cons involved with the use of indemnification agreements in an attorney fee agreement.
- An awareness of the ethical issues a lawyer would need to address prior to becoming a client of a professional employer organization.
- Clarity on what Rule 4.2 does and doesn’t allow.
- Clarity on how to navigate lawyer transitions in an ethically sound manner.
- An awareness of the obligations that arise should a lawyer realize that information not meant for her has nonetheless inadvertently ended up in her hands.
- An understanding of the ethical boundaries and risk management concerns associated with limited scope representation.
- An awareness of the obligations that arise for successor counsel once a client has fired the original contingent fee counsel.
- An understanding of what the cyber-attack vectors of smishing and vishing are, how they work, and the steps one can take to try and prevent becoming a cybercriminal next victim.
- Clarity on the steps one must take to wide up a practice.
Handouts
| Ethics Tonight 2021 Materials (4.74 MB) | 84 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Faculty
Mark Bassingthwaighte Related Seminars and Products
Alps Property & Casualty Insurance Company
Since 1998, Mark Bassingthwaighte, Esq. has been a Risk Manager with ALPS, an attorney’s professional liability insurance carrier. In his tenure with the company, Mr. Bassingthwaighte has conducted over 1200 law firm risk management assessment visits, presented numerous continuing legal education seminars throughout the United States, and written extensively on risk management and technology. Mr. Bassingthwaighte is a member of the ABA and currently serves as the ABA’s Law Practice Division’s Liaison to the ABA’s Standing Committee on Lawyers Professional Liability. He received his J.D. from Drake University Law School.
Timothy Petumenos Related Seminars and Products
Law Office Of Tim Petumenos
Tim Petumenos graduated from Tufts University in 1973 and Georgetown University Law Center in 1976. Mr. Petumenos has been involved in some of the more celebrated Alaska trials in the course of his career including the Senator George Hohman bribery cases, the McKay murder trials and was lead counsel in the state trial of the Exxon Valdez Oil spill. His practice also focused on ethics related issues. Mr. Petumenos served on Disciplinary Hearing Committees for the Bar and was appointed as Special Counsel in connection with gubernatorial ethics complaints during the Palin administration. Mr. Petumenos litigated numerous legal malpractice cases and has been qualified as an expert witness in legal malpractice cases. He is a certified teacher with the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and has taught trial advocacy on numerous occasions for the Alaska Bar Association, at the Northwest Regional Session of NITA and for prosecutorial agencies. Mr. Petumenos intends to devote much of his future practice to presiding over complex binding arbitrations.
Philip Shanahan Related Seminars and Products
Bar Counsel
Alaska Bar Association
Phil Shanahan grew up in the Boston area and graduated from Northeastern University School of Law in 1993. He moved to Alaska shortly after graduation and practiced as a criminal defense attorney in both state and federal courts. After a few years in private practice sharing office space with some of Anchorage’s best and brightest criminal defense and family law attorneys, he joined the Office of Public Advocacy. In 2007 he joined a private criminal defense firm, and opened his own criminal defense practice in 2010. He is a founding member of the Alaska Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and served on its Board of Directors for four years, including one year as a marginally-effective Secretary of the Board. He began his role as Bar Counsel with the Alaska Bar Association in December of 2019.
Phil is a diehard fan of all Boston sports teams, but realizes he has an ethical duty to work with even Yankees fans (when absolutely necessary).