Free Ethics: The 2029 Legal Ethics Certification Exam
Total Credits: 3.0 Ethics
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- Categories:
- Ethics
- Faculty:
- Philip Shanahan | Timothy Petumenos | Mark Bassingthwaighte | Megan Sandone | Kara Bridge
- Duration:
- 3 Hours 15 Minutes
- License:
- Never Expires.
Description
Free Ethics: The 2029 Legal Ethics Certification Exam
Presented in partnership with ALPS
Friday, March 27, 2026
9:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Webinar
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3.0 Ethics Credits
CLE# 2026311
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Member Registration fee: FREE
Non-Member Registration fee: $95
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The 2029 Legal Ethics Certification Exam is a series of three video vignettes that will take you a few years into the future. We'll watch four attorneys take a fictional ethics certification exam that is administered, proctored, and scored by an AI hologram. Each vignette will be followed up with a panel discussion of the issues raised. The topics presented include navigating the ethical issues that arise when representing corporate entities, incorporating generative AI tools into the practice, duties to prospective corporate clients, deepfakes and other false or misleading evidence, withdrawing from representation, winding up a practice, a lawyer's duties under Rule 5.3, navigating the fallout of a network breach, and of counsel relationships and the conflicts they bring.
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 Megan Sandone, Jermain, Dunnagan & Owens
Faculty
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.
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.