Young Lawyers Division 2000-2001

 

The AFFILIATE

November/December 2000

Litigation Ethics Training Materials Available at No Cost from ABA

The American Bar Association Section of Litigation has developed and released Litigation Ethics: Course Materials for Continuing Legal Education, a detailed collection of materials to help law firms, bar associations, and other groups that provide ethics and professionalism training. To facilitate widespread use of these innovative programs, the Section of Litigation is making the materials available to the legal community free of charge.

The guide is divided into eleven chapters, each outlining a specific ethics course. The chapters include both attendee materials and detailed resources for the instructor. The courses cover a variety of issues including supervisors/subordinate relationships in law firms, conflicts of interest in small firm practice, conflicts in negotiations, contacts with an adverse party's employees, misdirected communications, ethics in depositions or discovery, and client and witness perjury.

"This project brought together the best thinking and insight from top authorities on ethics in the legal profession," said Fordham University law professor Bruce Green, who co-edited the project with John Q. Barrett, associate professor of law at St. John's University School of Law. They created this guide to be a leading resource for anyone involved with ethics training.

"That the ABA Section of Litigation chose to allocate significant resources to the development and free distribution of this guide underscores the importance of ethics CLE development in our profession," said Green. "This collection of materials will expand and improve ethics training across the country." The materials may be obtained by calling the ABA Service Center at 800-285-2221. Ask for product number 531-0167.