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. Gorby
Cari 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’s primary research focus is the ethics of artificial intelligence and its effect on the legal and business communities. As Assistant General Counsel at Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP in Indianapolis, she counsels the firm’s attorneys on ethics compliance, risk prevention, and conflicts of interest, and helps train the firm’s attorneys and staff on their ethical obligations.
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’s primary research focus is the ethics of artificial intelligence and its effect on the legal and business communities. As Assistant General Counsel at Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP in Indianapolis, she counsels the firm’s attorneys on ethics compliance, risk prevention, and conflicts of interest, and helps train the firm’s attorneys and staff on their ethical obligations.
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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