Total Credits: 1 CLE, 1 Ethics
ER 8.1. Bar Admission and Disciplinary Matters
ER 8.3. Reporting Professional Misconduct
Faculty:
Nancy Greenlee, Counselor and Attorney at Law
Rebecca Kennelly, Office of the Attorney General
Patricia Sallen, Ethics at Law PLLC
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Nancy A. Greenlee, sole practitioner, specializes in representing lawyers in disciplinary proceedings. 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. Nancy 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. 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.
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.
attended the University of Arizona for her undergraduate studies and law degree. She served as a Deputy County Attorney for Maricopa County from 2007 to 2013, beginning in the Juvenile Division and working her way to the Vehicular Crimes Bureau where she advanced to Assistant Bureau Chief. Between 2014 and 2017, Rebecca presided over administrative hearings at the Executive Hearing Office for the Arizona Department of Transportation. Since the fall of 2017, Rebecca has been a litigator with the State Bar of Arizona where she pursues allegations of unethical conduct made against lawyers before the Attorney Discipline Probable Cause Committee and the Presiding Disciplinary Judge. Rebecca is also a member of the Arizona Women Lawyer Association, and has two kids, ages six and four.
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