Legal Ethics 2023: New Opinions, New Rules, and New Issues
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- Faculty:
- Dean R. Dietrich | Aviva Meridian Kaiser | B. K. Kempinen | Timothy J. Pierce
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- 3 Hours 35 Minutes
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- Audio and Video
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- On Demand - Also available: Video Replay 4 | On Demand
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Description
On a fast track to the future
The practice of law is constantly changing. From the stenotype machine to CODIS, the justice system has a long history of adopting new technologies. Lawyers have done the same, using everything from e-filing to artificial intelligence to become better, more efficient practitioners.
But as new technologies and business practices develop, ethical rules and requirements must keep pace. Stay current on how the Rules of Professional Conduct apply to the latest tech developments and more with help from Legal Ethics 2023: New Opinions, New Rules, and New Issues.
Matters of opinion
Delve into recent ethics opinions from the State Bar Committee on Professional Ethics and get practical advice on a wide range of topics, including:
- Handling advanced fee payments under the new trust account rule
- Responding to negative criticism on social media
- Preventing conflicts of interest
- Using artificial intelligence in everyday practice
- Sharing an office with other lawyers
Faculty
Dean R. Dietrich Related Seminars and Products
Ruder Ware, L.L.S.C. Wausau
Dean R. Dietrich, a shareholder with Weld Riley, S.C., has represented clients in the areas of lawyer ethics
and professional responsibility for more than 35 years. He has represented attorneys in matters before the
Wisconsin Supreme Court and the Office of Lawyer Regulation and consults with law firms and lawyers
regularly regarding compliance with the Rules of Professional Conduct. Dean has served as Chair of the
State Bar Committee on Professional Ethics in addition to past service on the Committee appointed by the
Wisconsin Supreme Court to review changes to the Wisconsin Rules of Professional Conduct for Attorneys.
He is a member of the ABA’s Center for Professional Responsibility and the Association of Professional
Responsibility Lawyers. Dean currently serves as President of the State Bar of Wisconsin. He is a graduate
of Marquette University Law School.
Aviva Meridian Kaiser Related Seminars and Products
State Bar of Wisconsin Madison
Aviva Meridian Kaiser is Ethics Counsel at the State Bar of Wisconsin. Prior to joining the State Bar in 2013,
she taught at the University of Wisconsin Law School for 25 years. She taught Professional Responsibilities,
Ethical and Professional Considerations in Writing, Problem Solving, and Risk Management. From 1992
until 2002, she was the Director of the Legal Research and Writing Program. Aviva received her B.A. in
Chinese from the University of Pittsburgh and her J.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo Law
School. She clerked for the Honorable Louis B. Garippo in People v. John Wayne Gacy and clerked for the
Honorable Maurice Perlin in the Illinois Appellate Court. She practiced law in Chicago before beginning her
full-time teaching career at IIT Chicago/Kent College of Law. Aviva is a member of the State Bar of
Wisconsin, a Wisconsin Law Fellow, an American Bar Foundation Fellow, and a frequent speaker on
matters of professional ethics.
B. K. Kempinen Related Seminars and Products
University of Wisconsin Law School - Retired
B. K. Kempinen is a cum laude graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School and taught at the Law
School from 1976 until his retirement in January of 2018. In addition to teaching the first-year criminal law
curriculum and a number of related courses (Trial Advocacy, Professional Responsibilities, and Advanced
Substantive Criminal Law), Prof. Kempinen was involved in several of the Law School's clinical programs,
including serving as interim director of the Legal Defense Project; working as a supervising attorney in the
Frank J. Remington Center's Legal Assistance to Institutionalized Persons Project (LAIP); and, from 1990
until his retirement, acting as director of the Remington Center's Prosecution Project. Prof. Kempinen has
also been involved in both trial and appellate litigation in the criminal law area, has taught at the National
Institute of Trial Advocacy, has participated in a variety of conferences and continuing legal education
programs during the past two decades, served on the Wisconsin Supreme Court Ethics 2000 Committee,
and is the chair of the State Bar Ethics Committee.
Timothy J. Pierce Related Seminars and Products
State Bar of Wisconsin
Timothy J. Pierce has been Ethics Counsel for the State Bar of Wisconsin since 2004. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and his law degree, cum laude, from the University of Wisconsin Law School. Mr. Pierce was previously a Deputy Director at the Office of Lawyer Regulation in Milwaukee and Madison. He has also been employed as the Ethics Administrator for Milbank, Hadley, Tweed & McCloy, in New York, and as an Assistant State Public Defender in Racine. He is a member of the State Bar of Wisconsin. He is a frequent speaker on matters of professional ethics and has given hundreds of CLE presentations to a wide variety of groups on professional responsibility law. He serves as reporter for the State Bar’s Committee on Professional Ethics and writes the monthly “Ethical Dilemmas” column for the State Bar of Wisconsin. He has also taught Professional Responsibilities at the University of Wisconsin Law School since 2011 and currently serves as a Volunteer Subject Matter Expert for the MPRE.