Program Details
2025-05-21 13:00:00
Over 1,000+ webinars
Course Overview
2025-05-21 13:00:00
2h CLE Credits
Intermediate
2
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ESTThis session examines the rules, risks, and resolutions surrounding conflicts of interest in legal practice, including concurrent, successive, and third-party conflicts. Attorneys will learn essential strategies for managing conflicts through systematic checking, disclosure protocols, and ethical screens, while exploring attorney-client privilege fundamentals and confidentiality protections in the digital age.
Michael J. GorbyCari L. Sheehan 2:10 pm - 3:10 pm ESTThis session explores how professionalism and civility serve as core competencies that safeguard the legal system’s integrity, covering attorney conduct expectations under ABA Model Rules 1.1, 1.3, and 8.4. Participants will examine real disciplinary case studies, learn methods for resolving ethical dilemmas while maintaining integrity, and discover strategies for managing reputation and avoiding conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice.
Michael J. GorbyCari L. SheehanMichael J. Gorby is a nationally recognized trial attorney and founding partner of Gorby Peters & Associates, LLC. With more than three decades of legal experience, Mike has tried hundreds of cases and handled thousands of matters for corporations and individuals across the United States. His practice centers on complex commercial litigation, insurance coverage disputes, and premises liability for property owners and managers — including hotel chains, restaurants, shopping centers, apartment complexes, office buildings, and other public venues. Mike also advises startup clients on business formation, entity selection, and government contracting, bringing a practical, business-minded approach to every engagement.
Cari L. Sheehan is the Assistant General Counsel at Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, bringing more than fifteen years of experience in civil litigation, conflicts of interest, and professional responsibility to her role advising firm attorneys on ethics compliance, risk prevention, and conflicts of interest. She also leads ethics training and education initiatives across the firm and is passionate about promoting ethical awareness, integrity, and professionalism in the legal and business communities, with a primary research focus on the ethics of artificial intelligence.
Michael J. Gorby is a nationally recognized trial attorney and founding partner of Gorby Peters & Associates, LLC. With more than three decades of legal experience, Mike has tried hundreds of cases and handled thousands of matters for corporations and individuals across the United States. His practice centers on complex commercial litigation, insurance coverage disputes, and premises liability for property owners and managers — including hotel chains, restaurants, shopping centers, apartment complexes, office buildings, and other public venues. Mike also advises startup clients on business formation, entity selection, and government contracting, bringing a practical, business-minded approach to every engagement.
Cari L. Sheehan is the Assistant General Counsel at Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, bringing more than fifteen years of experience in civil litigation, conflicts of interest, and professional responsibility to her role advising firm attorneys on ethics compliance, risk prevention, and conflicts of interest. She also leads ethics training and education initiatives across the firm and is passionate about promoting ethical awareness, integrity, and professionalism in the legal and business communities, with a primary research focus on the ethics of artificial intelligence.
Requirements
The Alabama State Bar MCLE Commission requires attorneys to complete 12 credits, including 1 ethics, by December 31 of each year. All credits must be reported by February 15 of the following year. A maximum of 12 credits, including 1 ethics credit, may be carried over for 1 year only.
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