Ethics Tonight - The Final Chapter: 2023 Ethics Program
Total Credits: 3.0 including 3.0 Ethics
- Average Rating:
- 1013
- Categories:
- Ethics
- Faculty:
- Mark Bassingthwaighte | Philip Shanahan | Timothy Petumenos | Katherine Demarest
- Duration:
- 3 Hours 03 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- License:
- Never Expires.
Description
Ethics Tonight
3.0 Ethics CLE Credits | CLE# VOD_2023311
Registration: Free
Recorded 4/28/2023
*Free to Alaska Bar Members through December 31, 2023
Beginning January 1, 2024 price is $95
Moderated by: Mark Bassingthwaighte, Esq., Risk Manager with ALPS
Panel Members: Phil Shanahan, Bar Counsel, Alaska Bar Association, Tim Petumenos, Law Office of Tim Petumenos, and Katherine Demarest, Assistant Attorney General - Civil Appeals at Department of Law
Program Description:
Join us for the final episode of “Ethics Tonight,” a series of video vignettes designed to shed light on ethical issues that many attorneys face daily. Presented in the context of a late night television program, the issues raised in this episode include ethical concerns that arise as a result of setting up a subscription based practice, complying with Rules 1.1 and 1.4 when the client and attorney don’t share a common language, the ethical boundaries of a mediation practice, conflicts of interest to include joint representation, trust accounting basics, ethical concerns with accepting cryptocurrency as payment for advanced fees, use of third party payment apps, and more.
Handouts
| Ethics Tonight 2023 Answer Key (12.64 MB) | 86 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.
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).
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.
Katherine Demarest Related Seminars and Products
Senior Assistant Attorney
Opinions, Appeals, and Ethics Sections, Department of Law
Kate Demarest is a Senior Assistant Attorney General in the Opinions, Appeals, and Ethics section of the Department of Law. She spent seven years practicing general civil litigation with a strong appellate focus as a trial associate and then partner in the Anchorage office of Dorsey & Whitney before joining the Department of Law in 2017. Kate frequently supports the ethics advice functions of her section and serves on the Lawyers Fund for Client Protection bar Committee.