Inaugural Workshop of the National Institute for Teaching Ethics and Professionalism
co-sponsored by
The Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism
The ABA Standing Committee on Professionalism
W. Lee Burge Endowment for Law & Ethics, Georgia State University College of Law
Center for Legal Ethics & Professionalism, Mercer University School of Law
Louis Stein Center for Law & Ethics, Fordham University School of Law
Stanford Center on Ethics
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough Center on Professionalism
University of South Carolina School of Law

Opening Plenary
EVERYTHING I NEEDED TO KNOW ABOUT LEGAL ETHICS
THAT I NEVER LEARNED IN LAW SCHOOL
Friday, September 23, 2005
State Bar of Georgia Headquarters: Third Floor
104 North Marietta Street, Atlanta

Members of the Georgia Bar are Invited to Attend
Advance Registration Required by September 21
$60 includes lunch and 3 hours CLE (including 1 Ethics Hours and 1 Professionalism Hour)
On-line CLE registration (credit card only): iclega.org [Program 6177]

12:00 - 1:00 Welcome lunch
1:00 - 1:30 Introduction
1:30 - 2:15 Everything I Needed to Know About Legal Ethics to Practice Criminal Law. Chair: Prof. Tim Floyd (GSU). Amie Clifford, John Wesley Hall and Sharisse O'Carrol
2:15 - 3:00 Everything I Needed to Know About Legal Ethics for a Civil Practice. Chair: Prof. Roy Sobelson (GSU). Michael Downey, Ellen Pansky and Larry Wojcik
3:00 - 3:15 Afternoon coffee
3:15 - 4:15 What are effective ways for practicing attorneys to participate in teaching ethics and professionalism to law students? Professors Clark Cunningham (GSU), Liz Ryan Cole (Vermont) and Patrick Longan (Mercer)
4:15 - 4:30 Break (end of CLE program)
4:30 - 5:30 “The Legal Profession,” a new 1st year required course on professionalism at the Mercer Law School, taught by Professor Patrick Longan. Professor Longan won the 2005 National Award for Innovation and Excellence in Teaching Professionalism for developing this course
5:30 - 6:00 Informal reception

Speakers and Discussants
Doug Ashworth, Director --Transition Into Law Practice Program, Georgia
Professor R. Michael Cassidy, Boston College
Matthew Christensen, Anderson, Julian & Hull, Boise
Amie Clifford, Director, Center for Prosecution Ethics, National College of District Attorneys
Professor Liz Ryan Cole, Vermont Law School
Professor Clark D. Cunningham, Georgia State University
Michael Downey, Fox Galvin, St. Louis
Patrick Fischer,Keating Muething & Klekamp, Cincinnati
Dean Daisy Floyd, Mercer University
Professor Tim Floyd, Georgia State University
Professor Susan Fortney, Texas Tech University
Professor Michelle Ward Ghetti, Southern University Law Center
John Wesley Hall, Law Offices of John Wesley Hall, Little Rock
Professor Neil Hamilton, University of St. Thomas
Professor Angela Mae Kupenda, Mississippi College School of Law
Sally Lockwood, Executive Director, Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism, Georgia
Professor Patrick Longan, Mercer University
Donald Lundberg, Executive Secretary, Indiana Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission
Professor Timothy Mahoney, Providence College
Professor Judith McMorrow, Boston College
Paula Nailon, Director of Professional Development, University of Arizona College of Law
Sharisse O’Carroll, O’Carroll & O’Carroll, Tulsa
Ellen Pansky, Pansky & Markle, South Pasadena, CA
Professor Paul Paton, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
Arnold Rosenfeld, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, Boston
Professor Russell Pearce, Fordham University
Professor Roy Sobelson, Georgia State University
Professor Joan Vestrand, Thomas M. Cooley Law School
Professor Rob Wilcox, University of South Carolina
Lawrence Wojcik, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, Chicago
Melvin Wright, Executive Director, Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism, North Carolina
Carl Zahner, Director, Florida Center for Professionalism

Weekend Workshop (for NIFTEP Fellows only): GSU College of Law, 140 Decatur Street, Atlanta

Saturday, September 24

9:00: Dean Daisy Floyd (Mercer): The Development of Professional Identity in Law Students

9:30 - 12:00 Demonstrations by speakers and participants, using various presentational approaches, of innovative approaches to teaching ethics and professionalism in various settings

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 3:00 Small group discussions to discuss in depth what each of us is doing (and hopes to do) in teaching ethics and professionalism. Clusters will be organized to put together people with similar ideas and issues.

3:00 - 3:15 Afternoon coffee

3:15 - 5:00 Continued small group discussion

Dinner on your own

Sunday, September 25

9:00 - 10:30 Reports back in plenary from the small groups.

10:30 -10:45 Morning coffee

10:45 -12:00 Identification of common themes. Potential formation of working groups. Assessment of this workshop and planning for Fall 2006.

12:00 - 1:00 Closing lunch