Total Credits: 1.5 CLE, 1.5 Ethics
The panel reviews who is permitted to practice before the various Indian Tribal Courts (including Navajo, Hopi, Apache, and others) and how unknowingly someone could become involved in the unauthorized practice of law. Panelists also discuss UPL in immigration law, family law, and justice courts. There is also an overview of the Certified Legal Document Preparers and discussion of the new Legal Paraprofessionals program.
What You’ll Learn:
1. About the Legal Paraprofessionals and what areas they can practice in
2. About UPL in Tribal Courts, Immigration law, family law, and justice courts
3. Overview of Certified Document Preparers program
Presented by: Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee
| W-1 Did I Really See That - UPL (9.2 MB) | 341 Pages | Available after Purchase |
currently practices at the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office since 1998 and became Bureau Chief of the Probation Violation Bureau in 2005. She has worked in Preliminary Hearing, Trial, Charging and Special Crimes bureaus. She was an associate at Stender and Larkin and practiced immigration law focusing on deportation defense and family petitions and was the associate attorney in charge of the family immigration department and family petitions. Frankie, also practiced criminal defense mainly in DUI in various municipal and justice courts. Prior to that she was an associate at the Law Office of Marshall Tandy where she practiced immigration law before the Immigration Court as well as criminal defense cases. Criminal cases included both misdemeanors and felony cases, ranging from DUI to felony drug cases. Frankie is chair of the State Bar of Arizona Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee. She also serves on the State Bar of Arizona Conflict Case Committee, the State Bar of Arizona Peer Review Committee and the Arizona Supreme Court Committee on Minorities in the Judiciary. She received her Juris Doctorate from Creighton University School of Law in 1993, and her Bachelor of Arts from Creighton University College of Arts and Sciences in 1990, where she majored in Political Science and minored in business. She was admitted to the State Bar of Arizona in 1994 and the United States District Court District of Arizona October on 1996. (5/2015)
Honorable Charles J. Adornetto is the Judicial Education Officer for the Maricopa County Justice Courts and a Judge Pro Tempore in several courts. In his many years of legal practice, Mr. Adornetto has been the Wickenburg Town Magistrate, the Chief Hearing Officer at the Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections, the Chief Hearing Officer/Assistant Director of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, and an Assistant Chief Administrative Law Judge at the Arizona Department of Transportation.
Mr. Adornetto graduated from Stanford Law School and has a B.S. in Political Science from Arizona State University. He has also attended the Judicial College of Arizona, the National Judicial College in Reno, Nevada, the Arizona College of Trial Advocacy, the Certified Public Manager program, and the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Mr. Adornetto is a member of the Arizona Commission on Access to Justice and the Chair of that group’s Limited Jurisdiction Court Self-Represented Litigant Workgroup. He is a past Chair of the Executive Council of Arizona State Bar Public Lawyer Section and of the Juvenile Law Section.
Mr. Adornetto was awarded the 2024 Limited Jurisdiction Judges Association Sherry Geisler Member of the Year Award, and he has received three Strategic Agenda Awards from the Arizona Supreme Court for Enhancing Professionalism within Arizona’s Courts: in 2015 (Best Practice for Ensuring Access to Justice for Self-Represented Litigants); in 2020 (Best Practices and Webinars for Evictions During the Pandemic); and 2021 (New Judge Pro Tem Training Program).
Juan Carlos Flamand is a Partner at Fragomen’s Phoenix office. He has practiced immigration law exclusively since 2006 with a focus on representing large technology companies. He has extensive experience with nonimmigrant visas as well as all aspects of immigrant visa processing. He routinely counsels clients on compliance and advocacy matters. Juan Carlos’ previous legal experience includes having practiced as a criminal defense attorney in Virginia.
Juan Carlos is a graduate of the Arizona State Bar Leadership Institute and served as Chair of the State Bar Immigration Section and on the State Bar Appointments Committee.