Total Credits: 3 CLE, 3 Ethics
This seminar provides a real-world discussion with the bench and the bar on handling difficult ethical issues with the court, opposing counsel, and others. Topics will include:
Chair:
Nancy Greenlee, Attorney and Counselor at Law
Faculty:
Hon. Lacey Stover Gard, Pinal County Superior Court
Craig Henley, Senior Bar Counsel, State Bar of Arizona
Steve Little, Bar Counsel, State Bar of Arizona
Donald Wilson Jr, Broening Oberg Woods & Wilson PC
Nancy Greenlee, sole practitioner, was a member of the State Bar of Arizona Ethics Committee from 2007 to 2016. She is the chair of the State Bar of Arizona Ethics Advisory Group. She is a former lawyer member of the Arizona Commission on Judicial Conduct and a former Board member of the Young Lawyer's Division of the Maricopa County Bar Association. Nancy graduated, with distinction, from the University of Iowa College of Law in 1986, and worked in private practice, handling primarily plaintiff's personal injury cases and general litigation matters including some dissolution cases. From 1990 to 1996, she served as a State Bar of Arizona staff bar counsel responsible for investigation and prosecution of matters involving violations of the Rules of Professional Conduct. After leaving the State Bar, Nancy started her own practice limited to representing lawyers in disciplinary proceedings. Nancy frequently serves as a panel member for CLE seminars dealing with professional conduct and ethics. She can be reached at (602) 264-8110 or nancy@nancygreenlee.com.
is a Judge of the Pinal County Superior Court, where she is assigned to a civil rotation. Prior to her appointment, Lacey worked for 17 years at the Office of the Arizona Attorney General, serving most recently as Section Chief Counsel of the Capital Litigation Section. In that capacity, Lacey argued numerous capital cases in the state and federal appellate courts, and represented the State of Arizona in multiple post-conviction hearings. Lacey is also a former adjunct professor of legal writing at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. She began her career as a law clerk to Judge J. William Brammer, Jr., of the Arizona Court of Appeals. Lacey received her Juris Doctor from the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law in 2003, and her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Arizona in 2000.
is a senior member in the law firm of Broening Oberg Woods & Wilson, P.C., which he joined in 1981. Mr. Wilson is an experienced litigator, with substantial trial experience. He concentrates his practice on the defense of attorneys in malpractice and disciplinary matters. Mr. Wilson served as a Judge Pro Tem on the Maricopa County Superior Court bench for twenty years, and is a past president of the Arizona Association of Defense Counsel. He is also a member of the International Association of Defense Counsel and is certified in legal malpractice by the American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys. Mr. Wilson was selected by his peers as a Best Lawyer in legal malpractice in 2011-2019 and has been named Lawyer of the Year for legal malpractice defense by Best Lawyers in 2014, 2016 and 2019. He has also been nominated as a Southwest Superlawyer in legal malpractice for multiple years, including 2019. He is also a member of the Arizona Attorney Ethics Advisory Group. Mr. Wilson completed his undergraduate education and obtained his law degree at Arizona State University. In his leisure time, Mr. Wilson enjoys the company of his wife, Mary, and is an avid reader and archery hunter. Mr. Wilson can be reached at dwj@bowwlaw.com.
Craig Henley is a motivated, personable lawyer with twenty nine (29) 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.
is Senior Bar Counsel in the State Bar of Arizona's Lawyer Regulation Division and a Judge Pro Tempore for the Maricopa County Superior Court. Steve has prosecuted numerous Lawyer Regulation cases over the years, in addition to presenting substantive CLEs on legal ethics and professional responsibility. Steve also runs and oversees the State Bar's Law Office Management Assistance Program, which offers in-person law office management assistance to lawyers in need. Steve has previously worked as Assistant Ethics Counsel for the State Bar, as a prosecutor for the Maricopa County Attorney's Office in the Major Crimes Division, and has run his own legal practice, representing personal injury clients and defending lawyers from ethics and malpractice complaints.
