A bimonthly ethics update. This month faculty will discuss ER 3.6 - Trial Publicity
Faculty
Keith Swisher, Swisher PC
Kimberly Tirrell, Maricopa County Attorney's Office
Kimberly Sharr Tirrell
Kimberly Tirrell is an Assistant Bureau Chief, Deputy County Attorney, with the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office. Ms. Tirrell handles prosecution for dangerous complex cases. She is the co-coordinator of the CGIC/NIBIN group within the County Attorney’s Office. In 2019 she was named both East Division Attorney of the Year and as Maricopa County-Prosecutor of the Year. Ms. Tirrell has been a member of the Arizona Women’s Lawyer Association since 2014. She was appointed to the Ethics Advisory Group-State Bar of Arizona in August of 2022. She is licensed to practice law in Arizona and Missouri.
Keith Swisher, Swisher PC
Keith Swisher is Professor of Legal Ethics and Director of the Bachelor of Law and Master of Legal Studies Programs at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. Prof. Swisher teaches legal ethics and procedure, serves as ethics counsel and expert witness to lawyers, law firms, and judges, and represents indigent defendants in the Ninth Circuit. His scholarship is regularly published and cited in the areas of legal and judicial ethics and disqualification, and he previously founded and edited the first blogs on judicial ethics and lawyer disqualification. He is a former member of the ABA's Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility and the Editorial Board of ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct. In 2011, he received the ABA's Rosner & Rosner Young Lawyer Professionalism Award, and in 2016, he received the AJC's Learned Hand Emerging Leadership Award.
Previously, Prof. Swisher clerked for the Ninth Circuit (Canby, J.) and practiced at Osborn Maledon in Phoenix.