Illinois State Bar Association recently issued the following announcement.
Live Webcast
Thursday, March 3, 2022
12:00 – 2:00 p.m.
2.0 hours MCLE credit, including 2.0* hours Professional Responsibility MCLE credit in the following category: Professionalism, Civility, or Legal Ethics credit
Discover why professionalism plays such an important role in both the courtroom and toward the client and opposing counsel with this informative seminar. Attendees with basic practice experience will better understand:
- The effects of being unprofessional, including its impact on cases, argument, the judge, and the jury;
- How to avoid crossing the unprofessional line;
- How to handle unruly opposing counsel and setting the clients expectations for dealing with this type of behavior;
- The Seventh Circuit’s Code of Conduct and how to get practitioners to follow these expectations;
- The best practices to employ during depositions, motion practice, and settlement conferences;
- The proper format for Rule 37.2 conferences;
- How to recognize unprofessional conduct guised as “zealous advocacy”;
- The purpose and application of FRCP 11 and 37, 28 USC 1927, and ARDC complaints, and the steps we can take to stem the trend of incivility;
- And much more!
Janaan Hashim, Amal Law Group LLC, Chicago
Program Moderator:
Ryan Suniga, Judicial Law Clerk, U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois, Chicago
Program Speakers:
Hon. David G. Bernthal, Of Counsel, Webber & Thies, P.C., Urbana
Jerome E. Larkin, Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission, Chicago
Mary Robinson, Robinson, Stewart, Montgomery & Doppke, LLC, Chicago
Hon. Sidney I. Schenkier, JAMS, Chicago
Original source can be found here.