Alaska (AK) Ethics CLE Course Catalog

You work hard for the money, so let’s make sure you get it. This panel will discuss ethical considerations governing that all-important process: getting retained and paid by the bankruptcy estate. Aside from covering the basics of retention for young and new professionals, the panelists will address some of the myriad ethical issues governing retention and compensation that can arise, including connection disclosures, concurrent representations of insiders and expense reimbursement.

Bankruptcy lawyers are confronted with daily decisions that may have ethical traps. This panel of experts will identify some of these traps and show you how to avoid them.

The use of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) particularly in the area of mediation has grown dramatically in the past ten years. However, it is a process that many counsel lack familiarity with. Of importance are the ethical considerations that attach to settlement negotiations.

Join a lively discussion on how to protect your clients in case of an emergency situation (disability / death) in which a lawyer cannot practice either temporarily or long-term. This session will focus on the ethical obligations attorneys have to protect their clients by planning for attorney surrogacy in advance.

This session will offer exciting, fast-paced, valuable tips on how to use technology ethically and effectively.

Have recent events prompted the necessity or the desire for you to handle an immigration case? Stop, slow down, and first consider the relative complexity and nature of the matter with an eye on your ethical obligations. Can you weave through the rules and regulations to take the appropriate steps to achieve the right result? Do you know which Model Rules of Professional Conduct are at issue? Let us help you avoid a disciplinary complaint and a client protection claim.

The program covers how to best respond when lawyers and judges are impaired and unfit to practice.

Join our expert panelist as he explores strategies for representing clients who regularly use social media; study the ethical boundaries (improper use by lawyers); and risks associated with advising clients to "change" or "delete" social media.

Even when the rules don't change, sometimes the circumstances give us reason to think about the rules in a new or different way. Such is the case amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Our ethical duties remain the same, but just about everything else seems to have been upended.