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Webinar: Heartbreak and Bar Complaints: Country Music’s Guide to Legal Ethics

June 18 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

1 Participatory MCLE Credits

Country music tells the stories of real people making tough choices – just like the ethical dilemmas attorneys face every day. Professional legal educator Stuart Teicher, Esq. (known as The CLE Performer) uses classic country songs to explore the rules of professional conduct in a way that’s both memorable and practical. From Dolly Parton’s superior skills to Johnny Cash’s redemption stories, to the lessons from today’s country pop, you’ll discover how the themes in country music mirror the ethical challenges lawyers encounter with clients, courts, and colleagues. This program transforms dry ethics rules into relatable lessons using the storytelling power of country music, helping you remember key principles when real ethical dilemmas hit your practice like a freight train.

Learning Objectives:

  • Analyze client confidentiality scenarios through country music narratives that illustrate proper application of RPC 1.6 and common disclosure pitfalls
  • Examine conflict of interest situations using song storylines that demonstrate compliance strategies for RPC 1.7 and RPC 1.9 requirements
  • Evaluate attorney competence and diligence obligations under RPC 1.1 and RPC 1.3 through country music tales of personal accountability and professional responsibility

Speakers: Stuart I. Teicher

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Non-Member Price
$75

Member Price
$55

Stuart I. Teicher, Esq. is a professional legal educator who focuses on ethics law and writing instruction.   A practicing attorney for nearly 3 decades, Stuart’s career is now dedicated to helping fellow attorneys survive the practice of law and thrive in the profession.   Mr. Teicher teaches seminars, provides in-house training to law firms and legal departments, provides CLE instruction at law firm client events, and also gives keynote speeches at conventions and association meetings.
 
Stuart helps attorneys get better at what they do (and enjoy the process) through his entertaining and educational CLE Performances.  He speaks, teaches, and writes— Thomson Reuters published his book entitled, Navigating the Legal Ethics of Social Media and Technology.

For well over a decade Mr. Teicher was a Supreme Court appointee to the New Jersey District Ethics Committee where he investigated and prosecuted grievances filed against attorneys.  Mr. Teicher continues to work with the New Jersey Office of Attorney Ethics as a Supreme Court appointee to the Fee Arbitration Committee. Mr. Teicher is an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown Law where he teaches Professional Responsibility, and he is an adjunct professor at Rutgers University in New Brunswick where he teaches undergraduate writing courses.

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