Fall 2011 Workshop

Welcome Luncheon

Workshop Overview

Clark Cunningham, Director, National Institute for Teaching Ethics & Professionalism, and W. Lee Burge Professor of Law & Ethics, GSU College of Law

Participant Introductions | Video

 Preview and Open Discussion of Burge Conference Keynote:

What Do We Know and What Should We Teach About How Bar Discipline Really Works?

An Empirical Study of Bar Discipline in Georgia and Other States. 

Daisy Floyd, University Professor of Law and Ethical Formation and Former Law Dean, Mercer University, and Tim Floyd, Director of the Law & Public Service Program and Professor of Law, Mercer University | Video

Teaching Demonstration: Warning Entering Students About Failure to Disclose Criminal History on Their Law School Applications

Sarah Valentine, Assistant Dean of Students and Admissions and Associate Law Library Professor, City University of New York, and Roy Sobelson, Associate Dean, GSU College of Law |Video

Teaching About Bar Discipline in a Required First Year Course

Bill Henderson, Indiana University- Bloomington

Pat Longan, William Augustus Bootle Chair in Ethics & Professionalism, Mercer University | Video

Teaching Demonstration: Communications and Partnering  – Inadequate Guidance from Rules of Professional Conduct

Kelly Faglioni, Partner, Hunton & Williams, LLP, Richmond, Virginia | Video

Teaching Demonstration: Virtue Ethics and the Deciding Lawyer:

Michael S. McGinniss, Assistant Professor, University of North Dakota School of Law | Video

Reporting Discipline Decisions Back to Law Schools

John Berry, Legal Division Director, Florida Bar and Clark Cunningham |Video

Teaching Demonstration: What Are Your Options When Your Client Threatens to File a Grievance?

Aviva Meridian-Kaiser, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin |Video

Teaching Demonstration: Determining the Appropriate Sanction

Mitch Simon, Professor of Law, University of New Hampshire [and 2-3 bar discipline lawyers] | Video

Teaching Demonstration: South Carolina’s “Ethics School”

Barbara Seymour, Deputy Disciplinary Counsel, Supreme Court of South Carolina

Michael Virzi, Instructor, School of Law, University of South Carolina| Video

Bar Discipline Externships

David Caudill, Arthur M. Goldberg Family Chair & Professor of Law, Villanova University School of Law | Video