Oregon (OR) Professionalism CLE Course Catalog

In most cases, judges represent the best and brightest of the legal profession. Yet, there are a few who experienced spectacular falls from grace. In this entertaining program, Andrew Struve chronicles the rise and fall of several infamous judges – ranging from Sol Watchler to Walter Nixon to Harry Claiborne – and discusses how their conduct ran afoul of the law and the ethics rules. The program materials include an ethical violation scorecard so can play along as we catalog the ethics violations committed by this rogues gallery of former judges.

Is it okay to be zealous, or does that push the boundaries too much? The word has been used to used to cover up all manner of sins in the practice. Join "the CLE Performer" Stuart Teicher Esq., as he explains how professionalism concepts asks us to question whether “zealousness” is proper and explains how the practice is moving away from that approach.