Total Credits: 1 CLE, 1 Ethics
A bimonthly ethics update. This month faculty will discuss ERs 4.2 - Communication with Person Represented by Counsel and 4.3 - Dealing with Unrepresented Person.
Faculty
Renee Gerstman, Gerstman Law
Gianni Pattas, Tiffany & Bosco, P.A.
Patricia Sallen, Ethics at Law PLLC
| EthicsCafeER4.2_4.3_FINALMaterials (2.5 MB) | 28 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Renee Gerstman is an attorney, mediator, arbitrator and neutral evaluator with over three decades of experience in business transactions, real estate, construction, corporate, contract, commercial and business litigation. Renee has arbitrated and mediated all types of disputes ranging from small consumer matters to large construction defect claims. Renee is on the American Arbitration Association's Roster of Commercial Neutrals, AAA Construction panel and Merger and Acquisition panel. She is also on the Arizona Association of Realtors roster of mediators, a FINRA mediator, arbitrator and chairperson and an arbitrator and mediator with New Era ADR a virtual mediation and arbitration platform. She has been listed as a Southwest Super Lawyer in alternative dispute resolution since 2017. Renee is a member of the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals, AV rated by Martindale Hubbel and a senior fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America. She has been a member of the State Bar's Fee Arbitration Program since 1991 and chaired the Program from 2012-2014. She currently serves on the State Bar's Ethics Advisory Group and on the Executive Council of the State Bar of Arizona's Alternative Dispute Resolution Section.
Patricia Sallen is a lawyer in private practice focusing on professional responsibility issues. She represents lawyers in discipline and admission matters, provides ethics advice to lawyers, serves as an expert witness on professional-responsibility issues, and consults on a myriad of other law-related topics. She regularly presents at CLE seminars and publishes articles about professional responsibility and writes the Eye on Ethics column for Arizona Attorney. She also has taught professional responsibility as an adjunct professor at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law for more than a decade. In addition to practicing in private law firms, she spent more than 15 years working for the State Bar of Arizona as both a bar counsel and ethics counsel and supervised programs such as the Fee Arbitration Program and Client Protection Fund. She served as expert consultant to the Arizona Supreme Court's 2014-15 comprehensive ethical rules review effort and to the Court's 2019-20 Task Force on the Delivery of Legal Services, which resulted in the groundbreaking rule changes allowing non-lawyer firm ownership and legal paraprofessionals. She currently serves on the State Bar's Ethics Advisory Group and the Supreme Court's Task Force on Ethics Rules Governing the State Attorney General, County Attorneys, and Other Public Lawyers.
began his career with insurance defense litigation in 2014. Gianni Pattas focuses his practice on civil litigation, business litigation, personal injury and wrongful death.
While earning his law degree, Gianni served as the executive chair of the school's Moot Court Competition team, which ranked in the top five nationally and was the most successful in the school's 90-year history. The team's brief won first place at the 13th Annual National Entertainment Competition. They also won second place overall and best team in oral arguments at the 20th Annual Saul Lefkowitz Trademark Competition, which was held at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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