Preventing Disciplinary Complaints
Advice from a Prosecutor and a Defense Lawyer
Sponsored by the American Bar Association Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs, Center for Professional Responsibility and the ABA Center for Continuing Legal Education in cooperation with the Government and Public Sector Lawyers Division
Faculty:
Cydney Batchelor, Deputy
Trial Counsel, State Bar of California, CA
Tim Denison, Criminal Defense Lawyer, Louisville, KY
Richard A. Soden, Chair, ABA Commission on Lawyer Assistance
Programs, Boston, MA
Following an introduction by Richard Soden, chair of the ABA
Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs, Cydney Batchelor
and Tim Denison discuss common causes of disciplinary complaints.
Ms. Batchelor and Mr. Denison bring a wealth of practical
experience to the subject. Ms. Batchelor is a deputy trial
counsel for the State Bar of California, and has taught in
the Bar’s ethics school. For the past five years she
has coordinated the Northern California attorney discipline
cases that involve drugs, alcohol or mental health conditions.
Mr. Denison, is a practicing lawyer from Louisville, Kentucky,
who defends lawyers in disciplinary hearings. Together, with
their 360 degree view of the subject, they suggest steps that
practicing lawyers can take to reduce the likelihood that
they will be the subject of disciplinary complaints.
Duration: 72 minutes
Credit Hours: 1.2 hours in a 60-minute state, 1.44 hours
in a 50-minute state
Ethics Hours: 1.2 hours in a 60-minute state, 1.44 hours
in a 50-minute state
Produced on May 15, 2007
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