CLEonline.com, together with the Austin Bar Association, are pleased to present a special online ethics seminar designed to provide practical advice to all attorneys on common ethics issues facing a modern law practice, including trial and mediation issues.
This seminar features a video presentation from a live CLE seminar on this topic that was originally conducted by the Austin Bar Association on December 18, 2009. This is a streaming video presentation that you can access on demand at any time during the course of the seminar session. The video materials run for approximately 3.0 hours and feature the following Austin attorneys and judges:
Claude E. DuCloux, Hill, Ducloux, Carnes & Hopper
Hon. Eric Shepperd, County Court at Law No. 2, Travis County
Hon. Charles Baird, 299th District Court, Travis County
Mike Schless, Attorney & Mediator
This seminar is entitled:
Austin Bar Presents: "Practical Legal Ethics for a Modern Law Practice"
** (available at any time of the day and in time increments convenient to you during the above referenced dates) **
Subjects to be discussed during this CLEonline.com seminar include:
- Practical Tips for Ethically Managing a Law Practice
- Trial Advocacy - A View from the Bench
- Why Honesty Really is the Best Policy: Perspectives from a Veteran Judge
- Ethics Issues in ADR and Mediation
The instructor/moderator for this CLEonline.com seminar will be:
Ms. Julia Benkoski, who is a solo attorney and mediator in Austin. With more than 20 years experience, Ms. Benkoski focuses her law practice on probate and estate planning, but mediates a wide range of disputes. She is a credentialed mediator by the Texas Mediator Credentialing Association. She is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the Austin Bar Association (Board of Directors, Planning and Probate Section, Solo/Small Firm Section), College of the State Bar of Texas, Texas Association of Mediators, American Bar Association, and Travis County Women Lawyer's Association. She received her law degree from the University of Houston Law Center (J.D., 1982). A more extensive biography for Ms. Benkoski may be found at her firm's Web site.
The seminar registration fee for this CLEonline.com seminar is only $75. SPECIAL DISCOUNT: If you are a member of the Austin Bar Association, you are entitled to a 20 percent discount and the registration fee is only $60. NOTE: If you are eligible and you wish to receive this special discounted fee, you will need to either call the CLEonline.com office or send us a message via e-mail and request this discount so that we can ensure that you are charged the proper rate. Please do not register for the seminar using your credit card online.
This seminar is accredited for 3.0 hours of participatory CLE credit (all in the subject area of legal ethics) by the MCLE Committees of the State Bar of Texas and the State Bar of California. In addition, regular CLE credits for this seminar are also available in a number of other states. CLEonline.com is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider pursuant to Sec. 9 of the California MCLE Rules and Regulations. (These are not self-study credits, but rather 'participatory' credits as you would receive for attending a traditional, live CLE seminar.)
PLEASE REMEMBER-- All of our online CLE seminars are covered by our 'Full Satisfaction' guarantee. If for any reason you are dissatisfied with this or any other CLEonline.com seminar, we will gladly issue you a prompt refund. Thus, you have nothing to lose in trying one of our convenient online CLE seminars. If you have never participated in an online seminar before, we think you'll be pleasantly surprised!
