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Civility, Professionalism and Ethics: Why All Three Matter In Practicing Law
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Length: 02:55
Course discusses why civility and professionalism are vitally important in today’s legal system, and their intersection with the Rules of Professional Conduct. Faculty will use hypotheticals, some based on real-world examples, to examine the importance of civility and professionalism in lawyers’ relationships with clients, judges, other attorneys, and the general public. Pertinent ethics rules and obligations will also be covered.
Chair
Craig Henley, Senior Bar Counsel, State Bar of Arizona*
Faculty
Angela Woolridge, Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorney's Office District of Arizona
Daniel Jurkowitz, Bureau Supervising Attorney, Pima County Attorney's Office Civil Division
* Also serving as a panelist.
*Please note this is not the Mandatory Professionalism Course required within the first year of admission, pursuant to Supreme Court Rule. Please refer to this link State Bar of Arizona Professionalism Course for the next available dates .*
Craig D Henley, State Bar of Arizona
Craig Henley is a motivated, personable lawyer with thirty (30) years of trial experience in a variety of forum including, but not limited to, local, state and federal courts in the states of Arizona, Louisiana, Texas and Ohio. Craig is licensed in both the State of Arizona and State of Louisiana (inactive) but has practiced exclusively as Senior Bar Counsel with the State Bar of Arizona for the last eleven (11) years. He has previously served as an Assistant District Attorney with the Louisiana 16th Judicial District Attorney's Office and practiced law with various sized law firms in the State of Arizona. Craig was a partner at the Law Offices of Henley & Hicks and solo practitioner at the Law Office of Craig Henley for six (6) years. Among his high-profile cases, Craig has successfully litigated a securities fraud case in the State of Ohio valued at well over one hundred eighty million dollars ($180MM), prosecuted an extensive voter fraud case in the State of Louisiana and represented the State of Arizona Treasurer.
Daniel S Jurkowitz, Pima County Attorney's Office
Daniel Jurkowitz is the Assistant Chief Civil Deputy in the Pima County Attorney’s Office Civil Division and serves on the State Bar of Arizona's Professionalism Advisory Council. He also currently serves as a Superior Court Judge Pro Tempore, on the faculty of The National Judicial College, and is a past president of the Pima County Bar Association and the Pima County Bar Foundation. Previously, he served as Chair of the State Bar of Arizona's Professionalism Committee, an Administrative Law Judge for the Arizona Department of Transportation, a Justice of the Peace Pro Tempore, a Town Magistrate Pro Tempore, and a Hearing Officer, Settlement Officer, and Attorney Discipline Hearing Panel Member for the Arizona Supreme Court. He began his career as a prosecutor with the Pima County Attorney’s Office Criminal Division and is a graduate of the University of Arizona College of Law.
Angela W Woolridge, Senior Counsel, United States Attorneys Office
Angela W. Woolridge has been an Assistant United States Attorney with the District of Arizona for the past 16 years. She has spent the majority of her time with the office prosecuting violent offenses with a focus on international weapons trafficking, and also prosecutes the majority of the office's firearm cases. Ms. Woolridge also handles a significant amount of appellate litigation, and has served in the civil division of the office. Prior to becoming an AUSA, she was a prosecutor in the Special Victims Unit of the Pima County Attorney's Office for three years. Ms. Woolridge is also an adjunct professor at the University of Arizona College of Law, and serves on the Arizona Supreme Court Attorney Ethics Committee.
