NIFTEP - 2005 Program

THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR TEACHING

ETHICS AND PROFESSIONALISM (NIFTEP)

INAUGURAL WORKSHOP

September 23 – 25, 2005

Georgia State University College of Law

Atlanta, Georgia

Web Site: http://law.gsu.edu/ccunningham/Professionalism/NIFTEP/

The entire 3 day program was videotaped and can be viewed on-line by clicking on the highlighted title of each session below. You must have the most current version of Quicktime installed on your computer for this webcasting. Click here for a free download or update of Quicktime.

Day One (September 23)

Opening Plenary Hosted by the State Bar of Georgia

“Everything I Needed to Know About Legal Ethics

That I Never Learned in Law School”

Introduction:

Sally Lockwood, Executive Director, Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism

Clark D. Cunningham, W. Lee Burge Professor of Law & Ethics, Georgia State University College of Law and Director of NIFTEP

Panel 1: “Everything I Needed to Know About Legal Ethics to Practice Criminal Law”
Moderator: Professor Tim Floyd, GSU College of Law

John Wesley Hall, Law Offices of John Wesley Hall, Little Rock
Amie L.Clifford, Director, Center for Prosecution Ethics, National College of District Attorneys
Sharisse O’Carroll, O’Carroll & O’Carroll, Tulsa
Q & A

Panel 2: “Everything I Needed to Know About Legal Ethics for a Civil Practice”

Moderator: Professor Roy Sobelson, GSU College of Law

Ellen Pansky, Pansky & Markle, South Pasadena

Lawrence Wojcik, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, Chicago

Michael Downey, Fox Galvin, St. Louis

Q & A

Panel 3: “What Are Effective Ways for Practicing Attorneys to Participate in Teaching Ethics and Professionalism to Law Students?”

Moderator: Professor Russell Pearce, Fordham Law School

Professor Clark Cunningham, GSU College of Law

Professor Liz Ryan Cole, Vermont Law School

Professor Patrick Longan, Mercer Law School

Q &A