Total Credits: 4.25 CLE, 4.25 Ethics
The Course on Professionalism is a mandatory course. In order to receive credit and be in compliance with Arizona Supreme Court Rule 34(n), you must attend and participate in the entire course.
This course explores professionalism principles and analyzes a series of professionalism hypotheticals pertinent to a lawyer's relationship with clients, judges, and other attorneys. The bulk of the seminar is presented in interactive breakout groups. New admittees to the State Bar of Arizona must complete this course within one year of being admitted to the Bar. Space is limited for each session.
In a profession that was designed to be adversarial in nature, it's only natural that conflicts with our colleagues, the judiciary and our clients may arise. How we resolve these conflicts reflects upon the profession as a whole. This course is designed to help restore civility and elevate the standards by which we treat all those with whom we come in contact.
The mandatory course, for all newly admitted Arizona members, satisfies the requirement under Rule 34(n), Ariz. R. Sup. Ct.
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Sharon Ng is a partner at Stinson LLP and is a member of the firm's Labor, Employment & Employee Benefits Practice Division. She has established and developed a robust employment law and litigation practice. She also is chair of the firm's Native American Law & Tribal Governance practice group. A strategic thinker and careful and active listener, Sharon has a business acumen that empowers her clients with the time, information and creative solutions and strategies to advance their business goals.
Sharon is an integral part of Stinson's diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. For nearly four years, she co-chaired Stinson's Attorneys of Color Employee Resource Group where she worked to ensure attorneys of color have the resources and support needed to succeed in their practice while working in an inclusively welcoming space to foster a sense of belonging and fuel business development efforts. She served on the firm's Diversity and Inclusion Committee and was a founding member of the firm's Phoenix Diversity and Inclusion Council.
Sharon’s involvement with various legal profession associations and organizations in Arizona is a reflection of her unyielding and extraordinary commitment to her clients, the communities she inhabits and Arizona's legal profession. She is a member of the Arizona State Bar Association where she has served as Chair of the Council on Women and Minorities in the Law and Vice Chair of the Civil Practice and Procedures Rules Committee. From April 2022 to April 2023, Sharon served as the President of the Arizona Asian American Bar Association. She is also a volunteer mentor with the Sandra Day O'Connor School of Law's Advanced Scholars Program, which is comprised of first-generation-first-year law students.
She is a frequent speaker and has led numerous trainings on unconscious bias and diversity in the law and in the workplace.
Judge Peter W. Hochuli received his undergraduate degree in Sociology with an emphasis in Juvenile Corrections from Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, in 1977. He earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University Of Arizona College Of Law, in 1980. He has practiced law in Tucson, Arizona since 1981. He was in private practice with an emphasis in Juvenile delinquency defense and dependency matters as well as family law/domestic relations cases. In 1996, he joined the Pima County Attorney’s Office, Juvenile Division, and was promoted to supervisor in April, 2003. During that time he represented the Pima County Attorney during the implementation of the Juvenile Detentions Alternatives Initiative.
He was a founding member of the Juvenile Law Section of the Arizona State Bar and was Section Chair from June 1999 to June 2000. Over the course of his career he has participated in a number of state and local juvenile committees, collaborations, and faculty for legal education.
Peter W. Hochuli was appointed to the Pima County Bench as a Court Commissioner/Judge Pro Tempore of the Superior Court, Juvenile Division effective March 17, 2008. In October 2013, he was rotated to the Pima County Probate/Adult Mental Health bench, where he served for 27 months. December 11, 2015, he was appointed by Governor Doug Ducey, to the Pima County Superior Court Bench, Division 13, and is currently serving on the Juvenile Bench, as the Presiding Judge.
He has been married for almost 43 years and has four beautiful children and three exceptional grandchildren.
Maurice Goldman works in Tucson, Arizona at Goldman & Goldman, P.C. He holds a J.D./M.B.A. from Hofstra University. He graduated from Syracuse University with a B.S. in journalism. His law practice is focused only on immigration-related matters including employment-based, family-based, asylum, removal defense and other humanitarian-based immigration issues. Mr. Goldman has served on multiple national American Immigration Lawyers Association's (AILA) committees. He's a recipient of the 2010 AILA Joseph Minsky Young Lawyer Award and the 2018 Randy Tunac Courage in Immigration Award. Mo previously served as the AILA Arizona chapter chair. He was previously a trustee to the American Immigration Council (AIC) and sat on the boards of the ASISTA, Border Action Network and Immigrants List.
SAMUEL ANDERSON THUMMA. Vice Chief Judge (2015-present) and Judge (2012-present), Arizona Court of Appeals. Judge, Arizona Superior Court (2007-2012). Nationally, Sam is a Uniform Law Commissioner, where he Chairs the Drafting Committee on Employee and Student Online Protection and Privacy; is an Advisor to the American Law Institute’s RESTATEMENT OF THE LAW (THIRD) OF TORTS: LIABILITY FOR ECONOMIC LOSS; Chairs the American Bar Association’s Judicial Division Technology Committee; is a member of the ABA’s Judicial Division Ethics & Professionalism Committee and is a member of the Planning Committee for the Appellate Judges Education Institute. In Arizona, Sam is Co-Chair/Co-Editor of the ARIZONA APPELLATE HANDBOOK; is Co-Chair of the Arizona Supreme Court’s Committee on the Rules of Evidence; is a member of Arizona’s Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee; is a member of the State Bar of Arizona’s Civil Recommended Arizona Jury Instructions Committee and has served as Chair of the State Bar’s Civil Practice and Procedure Committee; Chair of the Fee Arbitration Committee and as a member of the Committee on the Rules of Professional Conduct (the “Ethics Committee”). He has presented at more than 230 seminars, and published 9 law review articles and more than 35 other law-related articles. Previously, Sam was a partner at Perkins Coie Brown & Bain, P.A., and an associate at Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C. He served as a law clerk for Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice Stanley G. Feldman and Judge David R. Hansen, United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa. Sam graduated Order of the Coif from the University of Iowa College of Law in 1988, where he was a Note & Comment Editor on the IOWA LAW REVIEW, and from Iowa State University in 1984, where he was a Harry S. Truman Memorial Scholar.
Judge Danielle J.K. Constant received her undergraduate degree in History with a minor in English from Dordt University in Iowa in 1999. She earned her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Arizona College of Law in 2002. She practiced law in Tucson, Arizona, beginning in 2002. She started her career at the Pima County Attorney’s Office as a criminal prosecutor for vehicular, violent, property, narcotics, and misdemeanor crimes. In 2014, she changed to private practice at two different Arizona firms. She practiced primarily in civil defense including government defense, eminent domain, personal injury, medical malpractice, employment, and appellate practice. She has been a member of organizations including the Pima County Bar Association, the Tucson Defense Bar, the Arizona Association of Defense Counsel, and the Arizona Women Lawyer’s Association. She was formerly the co-chair of the Arizona Condemnation Summit for eminent domain practitioners.
Judge Constant was appointed by Governor Doug Ducey to the Pima County Bench in October of 2022, Division 12, and is currently serving on the Family Bench.
She is married and has four (sometimes) wonderful children (ages 6 to 12) and a very lazy dog.
Matt McGregor is Bar Counsel with the State Bar of Arizona’s Intake department. Born and raised in the far suburbs of Chicago, IL., his first legal job was with the Maricopa County Attorney’s office, where he worked from 2002 – 2007. Matt worked in the Preliminary Hearing, Juvenile, and Family Violence Bureaus. Matt then moved over to the State Bar of Arizona’s Lawyer Regulation department in 2007, where he worked as a Litigation Bar Counsel, and then transitioned into a part of the Intake department. In 2011, Matt returned to the County Attorney’s office, where he worked in Charging / Grand Jury, Family Violence, Gangs, and as a Mentor for newer attorneys in the Preliminary Hearing bureau. Matt then returned to the State Bar’s Intake department in February 2016, and he also assists in conducting in-person law office assessments for the State Bar’s Law Office Management Assistance Program. Matt regularly teaches as part of the State Bar of Arizona’s Professionalism Course and other CLEs.