Program Details
2025-09-26 14:00:00
Over 1,000+ webinars
Course Overview
2025-09-26 14:00:00
2h CLE Credits
Intermediate
2
2:00 pm - 2:20 pm ESTExamine how remote work arrangements intersect with unauthorized practice of law restrictions, identifying when attorneys risk violations by serving clients across jurisdictions from home offices, virtual setups, or relocated workspaces.
Amy E. Richardson
Jessica Bednarz 2:20 pm - 2:40 pm ESTReview ABA Formal Opinions 495 and 498 alongside key state ethics opinions, clarifying when attorneys may practice remotely from jurisdictions where they are not licensed without triggering disciplinary exposure.
Amy E. RichardsonJessica Bednarz 2:40 pm - 3:00 pm ESTExplore regulatory sandbox programs launched across multiple states, including outcomes, participant data, and lessons emerging from alternative business structures designed to expand legal service delivery and consumer access.
Amy E. RichardsonJessica Bednarz 3:10 pm - 3:40 pm ESTAnalyze cross-border practice risks under ABA Model Rule 5.5, evaluate exceptions permitting temporary practice, and track policy trends reshaping how states regulate attorneys serving clients in multiple jurisdictions today.
Amy E. RichardsonJessica Bednarz 3:40 pm - 4:10 pm ESTReview IAALS research findings on allied legal professionals, community justice workers, and consumer-focused service models, applying data-driven insights to enhance access to justice within evolving ethical frameworks.
Amy E. RichardsonJessica BednarzAmy E. Richardson is a Partner and Managing Partner of HWG LLP’s Raleigh office, where she chairs the firm’s Legal Ethics and Malpractice group. Her practice spans legal ethics and professional responsibility, white collar criminal defense, and complex civil litigation — with a particular focus on representing lawyers and law firms in disciplinary investigations and prosecutions, malpractice matters, partner admissions and departures, and law firm dissolutions, including matters before the USPTO’s Office of Enrollment and Discipline and the Office of Professional Responsibility. She also represents companies and individuals before federal and state regulatory agencies and Offices of Inspector General, and brings extensive white collar criminal defense experience including grand jury preparation and trial work. Amy teaches legal ethics and professional responsibility at Duke University School of Law and previously taught at Georgetown University Law Center. She is Chambers USA-ranked for white collar crime and government investigations in North Carolina, a North Carolina Super Lawyers Top 100 and Top 50 Women honoree, and a member of Business North Carolina’s Legal Elite. She holds a J.D., cum laude, from Duke University School of Law (2002) and a B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of North Carolina.
Jessica Bednarz is the Director of Legal Services and the Profession at IAALS, the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System, where she leads the organization’s vision and strategy around innovation, regulation, reform, and evolution in the delivery of legal services and the legal profession. She joined IAALS in 2023 after eight years at The Chicago Bar Foundation, where her work spanned a wide range of access to justice issues — including oversight of the Justice Entrepreneurs Project (CBF’s legal incubator program), launching Legal Entrepreneurs for Justice in Colorado, staffing the Chicago Bar Association and Chicago Bar Foundation Task Force on the Sustainable Practice of Law and Innovation (focused on regulatory reform), and developing practitioner resources including the CBF Pricing and Limited Scope Representation Toolkits. Before the CBF, Jessica was in private practice as a family law attorney, both as a solo practitioner and as an associate at O’Connor Family Law, P.C. She also served as MCLE Coordinator for the Chicago Bar Association and as a consultant for the Colorado Bar Association. She holds a J.D. and family law certificate, cum laude, from DePaul University College of Law and a B.S. from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.
Amy E. Richardson is a Partner and Managing Partner of HWG LLP’s Raleigh office, where she chairs the firm’s Legal Ethics and Malpractice group. Her practice spans legal ethics and professional responsibility, white collar criminal defense, and complex civil litigation — with a particular focus on representing lawyers and law firms in disciplinary investigations and prosecutions, malpractice matters, partner admissions and departures, and law firm dissolutions, including matters before the USPTO’s Office of Enrollment and Discipline and the Office of Professional Responsibility. She also represents companies and individuals before federal and state regulatory agencies and Offices of Inspector General, and brings extensive white collar criminal defense experience including grand jury preparation and trial work. Amy teaches legal ethics and professional responsibility at Duke University School of Law and previously taught at Georgetown University Law Center. She is Chambers USA-ranked for white collar crime and government investigations in North Carolina, a North Carolina Super Lawyers Top 100 and Top 50 Women honoree, and a member of Business North Carolina’s Legal Elite. She holds a J.D., cum laude, from Duke University School of Law (2002) and a B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of North Carolina.
Jessica Bednarz is the Director of Legal Services and the Profession at IAALS, the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System, where she leads the organization’s vision and strategy around innovation, regulation, reform, and evolution in the delivery of legal services and the legal profession. She joined IAALS in 2023 after eight years at The Chicago Bar Foundation, where her work spanned a wide range of access to justice issues — including oversight of the Justice Entrepreneurs Project (CBF’s legal incubator program), launching Legal Entrepreneurs for Justice in Colorado, staffing the Chicago Bar Association and Chicago Bar Foundation Task Force on the Sustainable Practice of Law and Innovation (focused on regulatory reform), and developing practitioner resources including the CBF Pricing and Limited Scope Representation Toolkits. Before the CBF, Jessica was in private practice as a family law attorney, both as a solo practitioner and as an associate at O’Connor Family Law, P.C. She also served as MCLE Coordinator for the Chicago Bar Association and as a consultant for the Colorado Bar Association. She holds a J.D. and family law certificate, cum laude, from DePaul University College of Law and a B.S. from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.
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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