Total Credits: 1.5 CLE, 1.5 Ethics
This ethics CLE features a panel of experienced judges and attorneys who provide tips for preventing and addressing ethical challenges. Panelists provide examples and practical tools for issues including conflicts, confidentiality, advising people with mental health issues, limited-scope representation agreements, assisting self-represented litigants, and when and how to withdraw. Volunteer attorneys address myths about pro bono and explain how pro bono programs provide convenient and rewarding opportunities designed for new/young attorneys, active attorneys, and retired attorneys.
What You’ll Learn:
1. Practice tips to prevent or address ethical dilemmas
2. Tips for assisting self-represented litigants including people experiencing mental health challenges
3. Facts that “bust” myths about pro bono & ways pro bono programs make it rewarding for participants
Presented by: Arizona’s Pro Bono Network & State Bar Legal Services Advisory Panel
| W-6 Ethics & Pro Bono (12.6 MB) | 27 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Lynda C. Shely of The Shely Firm, PC, Scottsdale, Arizona, provides legal ethics and regulatory advice to lawyers and law firms. Prior to opening her own firm, she was the Director of Lawyer Ethics for the State Bar of Arizona. Prior to moving to Arizona, Lynda was an attorney with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in Washington, DC. Lynda is chair of the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, an Arizona Delegate in the ABA House of Delegates, and volunteers with several other nonbillable groups involved in legal ethics matters, including as a member of the Arizona Supreme Court's Alternative Business Structures Committee. She is a past president of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers and the Scottsdale Bar Association and has been an adjunct professor at all Arizona law schools, teaching professional responsibility. Lynda received her BA from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA and her JD from Catholic University in Washington, DC. She has received several awards for her contributions to the profession including most recently the 2022 Maricopa County Bar Association Member of the Year Award.