Total Credits: 3 CLE, 3 Ethics
The practice of law is evolving rapidly. Changes in technology, firms (and other associations), and legal-service providers are sparking innovation and opportunities, in addition to uncertainty. Traditional approaches to the practice of law and ethical regulation cannot fully keep pace with these changes. This program, which will provide a year's worth of ethics credit, offers key insights on how to run and maintain a cutting-edge practice, ethically and effectively, in a changing profession. Below are some of the topics that will be covered:
- Drastic Changes to the Ethical Rules and the Practice of Law: Overview and Implications
- Online Marketing & Responding to Online Reviews
- AI Leads & Intake
- Digital Evidence
- Dealing with the Media: Traditional and Social
- Developments in Alternative Business Structures (ABS)
Chair
Prof. Keith Swisher, University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law
Faculty
Hon. Monica Lindstrom, Judicial Branch of Arizona, Maricopa County
Anthony Austin, Fennemore Craig PC
Nicholas Boca, Cantor Law Group
Brian Chase, ArcherHall
Josh Nunez, Nunez Law Firm PLLC
Since being admitted to the Arizona Bar in 1998, Monica has had a diverse and successful legal career practicing in multiple areas. She is currently the Commissioner for the Chandler Municipal Court, Code Compliance Civil Hearing Officer for the City of Mesa and a pro tem for the Maricopa County Justice Courts. Monica is involved with, and has held leadership positions with, the Scottsdale Bar Association, Arizona Foundation for Women, PVUMC Board of Trustees, Thurgood Marshall Inn of Court, and the City of Scottsdale Board of Adjustments. Besides being Vice Chair for the Arizona Foundation for Women, Monica has also worked with other charities such as Phoenix Children's Hospital, Lift Up America and the Annual McDowell Mountain Music Festival (M3F). Monica is often a keynote speaker, emcee, and a panelist for speaking presentations on a variety of topics to legal and non-legal groups. In the recent past she has given presentations on professionalism in the law, speaking and working with the media, active listening, mediating, various high-profile trials, ethics and Deflategate. She is KTAR News' and Arizona Sports' legal expert. In addition, she has been featured in various programs on the Investigation Discovery and the Oxygen Networks and was often called upon to comment on CourtTV, HLN, and Fox News. Monica received her Juris Doctorate from California Western School of Law and her Bachelor of Science from Northern Arizona University. Go Jacks!
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 member of the ABA's Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility and has served on 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.
is co-chair of Fennemore's financial restructuring, bankruptcy and creditors' rights practice group, where he works on matters including collection and judgement work, breach of contract, partnership disputes and receiverships. He represents financial institutions, debtors, creditors, and trustees in all phases of complex litigation and restructuring transactions, including trials and appeals. As an AV Preeminent rated bankruptcy attorney, Anthony has a wide range of commercial litigation experience involving foreclosures, receiverships and guarantor litigation. His experience as a bankruptcy attorney has him representing clients at trial and various types of hearings before the Bankruptcy Court, District Court, and Arizona Supreme Court. He is also adept at litigation matters involving the rapidly-evolving cannabis industry and partnered on a precedent-setting bankruptcy case involving marijuana investors and distributors. Growing up near the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, where his dad was a park ranger who helped open Kartchner Caverns to the public, Anthony has always had a great love for Arizona - and helping people - and knew from an early age he wanted to be a lawyer. These passions shape his view of his civil practice to this day where selling and merging companies really means saving jobs, keeping companies open, and maintaining the legacy of small business owners and their jobs that support hundreds of family members. Outside his work as a debt attorney, Anthony loves spending time in the great outdoors with his wife and three kids, exploring and camping in areas like Prescott, Cottonwood, Show Low, the North Rim of the Grand Canyon and the Carlsbad Caverns. Although he is a lifelong Cubs fan and grew up listening to Harry Caray on WGN Radio, his love for baseball carried into the Southwest, and he now often enjoys a cold beer with a hot dog at Arizona Diamondbacks games.
Brian Chase is a consultant, expert witness, adjunct professor of law, and attorney. He is the former owner of Chase Technology Consulting, a legal technology consulting firm providing digital forensics and e-discovery expertise. He now serves ArcherHall’s Managing Director of Digital Forensics and eDiscovery.
Mr. Chase has a diverse education and work background. He spent years working as a network administrator for the University of Arizona. He has a Management and Information Systems degree from the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona, a top ranked program in the country. Mr. Chase went on to earn a law degree, also from the University of Arizona. Before turning to digital forensics, he worked as a trial attorney handling criminal defense and personal injury cases. Mr. Chase has worked as a digital forensics expert for over a decade and has testified over 35 times as an expert in criminal and civil matters ranging from misdemeanors to murder to medical malpractice.
Mr. Chase has published and spoken on various technology related issues impacting law firms as well as parties in the civil and criminal justice system. He teaches various topics regarding law and technology, and digital forensics and evidence, at a variety of legal and technical conferences. He was honored by the Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the Arizona Daily Star with a “Tucson’s 40 Under 40 Award”, which recognizes young leaders who are making an impact in the community with their professional and charitable work.
Jim practices in the areas of white-collar criminal defense, government investigations, professional liability, and civil, regulatory and bankruptcy litigation. For more than 25 years, he has successfully defended businesses and individuals in regulatory enforcement and criminal matters in state and federal court.
Jim regularly represents clients in administrative and licensing hearings before governmental agencies such as the Department of Financial Institutions, the Department of Real Estate and the Arizona Corporation Commission. He has also been a member of the Arizona State Bar Committee on the Rules of Professional Conduct and advises lawyers on ethical compliance issues, represents lawyers in disciplinary proceedings before the State Bar of Arizona and defends lawyers in legal malpractice lawsuits.
Jim has authored several articles, on the subject of criminal defense and government investigations, conducts continuing legal education courses for lawyers, and teaches White Collar and Corporate Criminal Defense law as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. He is a member and past president of Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice (AAJC), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to protecting the rights of the accused in the courts and in legislature, and a member of the Ethics Advisory Committee of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), an organization promoting justice and due process at all levels of government.
