Available CLE Credit:    Diversity + Inclusion (1 credit), Professional Practice (2 credits), Ethics (1 credit)                 

Course Description: This seminar is a comprehensive look at racial justice in courthouse practice, including the ethical, tactical, and strategic decisions individual practitioners are confronted with in courthouse practice and the mechanisms by which to ensure diversity and inclusion in practice.  This ETHICS SEMINAR is one component of a 4-credit CLE seminar (also available for purchase). There is a significant focus on the dynamics race, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity in communication, transaction, and negotiation between counsel, between counsel and justices, and between counsel and clients. 

In a one-hour ETHICS module, practitioners will review relevant provisions of the rules of professional conduct and consider hypothetical scenarios that implicate these rules, expressedly and impliedly.  Practitioners will have the opportunity to reflect on their putative conduct in relation to the rules and the general obligation to  protect and promote the ethical practice of law.