10-Hour Special Credit Bundle

Presented by:
The Legal Ethics Committee of the San Diego County Bar Association
This is an online education program is worth 1.0 Legal Ethics (participatory) CLE credits.

Join us for the fourth program in the 4-part Legal Ethics Series for a discussion on the ethical benefits and risks of generative AI. AI and more recently generative AI have the potential to remake some, if not much, of the law practice landscape. Key take-aways include:

• What are its ethical implications?
• What are its ethical risks and its ethical benefits- for the lawyer and the client? 

Join us for the third program in the 4-part Legal Ethics Series for a discussion on the Client Trust Account Protection Program (CTAPP). The new CTAPP is creating additional burdens on lawyers who maintain client trust accounts in California. This program explains the new CTAPP requirements, requirements of California Rules of Professional Conduct 1.15, State Bar Rule 2.5, and other important issues regarding trust accounting. It also provides a refresher on basic ethical rules regarding client trust accounts and an explanation of the weighty consequences of client trust account misconduct.

Join us for the second program in the 4-part Legal Ethics Series for a discussion on the ethical dilemma when a witness lies at deposition. Key take-aways include:

• What are a lawyer’s ethics obligations when an expert witness lies at a deposition, and the client forbids the lawyer from disclosing the lie? 
• How does a lawyer resolve the seeming conflict between Rules of Professional Conduct, rule 3.3(a)(3) and rule 1.6 and Business and Professional Docs section 6068, subdivision (e) (Confidentiality)?

Presented by:

The Legal Ethics Committee of the San Diego County Bar Association

Are you retiring? Closing your practice? Can you just lock the door and walk on into the sunshine? Join us to learn about tips on ethical guidance about stepping away from the practice of law.

Programs like Adobe Acrobat and PowerPDF help legal professionals create, manipulate, share, sign, and e-File PDF files. In this session, you'll learn essential techniques for creating, merging, and editing PDFs, as well as converting them to Word and ensuring they are text-searchable. Maximize the value of your software subscriptions by becoming an expert user, fully equipped to handle important document tasks that are needed for working with PDFs. This is a great session for your legal assistants and paralegals too!

• Creating, merging and editing PDF files
• Converting PDF files to Word
• Manipulating pages (cropping, rotating, deleting)
• Create a text searchable PDF document
• Creating compliant PDF files (remove metadata, save as PDF-A)

*This session is delivered using Adobe Acrobat, the concepts and processes are applicable to many PDF applications. 

Become a more effective decision-maker and be more fully present in your work and personal life! Join Marta Manus, leadership coach and employment law attorney, to learn the importance of integrating the 3 brains (head, heart, and gut) to create coherence and increase mental and physical well-being. Skills learned in this program are applicable not only in the legal profession, but in all aspects of your life.

The Impact of Advocating for Others: Competency, Compassion Fatigue, and Lawyer Well-Being Presented by: The SDCBA Wellness Subcommittee and Co-sponsored by the Elder Law, Family Law, and Juvenile Law Sections of the San Diego County Bar Association The high stress and high conflict nature of the legal profession puts lawyers at increased risk for compassion fatigue, which can manifest as exhaustion, feeling overwhelmed, and burnout, all of which significantly impact a lawyer's competency, impair cognitive functioning and diminish one's overall ability to effectively advocate for their clients. Join Bethany Warren, LCSW, PMH-C, for an informative and timely CLE on how to identify the signs of compassion fatigue and learn what you can do to ensure you are functioning at your best and prioritizing your well-being. Featuring: Bethany Warren, LCSW, PMH-C

The SDCBA is committed to ensuring that all aspects of our events are accessible and enjoyable for all. If you require any accommodations, please contact us at mcle@sdcba.org.

Not a member? Join today or contact our Member Services Department at (619.231.0781 ext. 3505) to take advantage of discounted pricing on all SDCBA programs and events.

Join us as our speakers Jessie McGrath and Mia Yamamoto share what it is like to be a trans person in 2024. Learn a bit of the history of trans people, how trans people spent many years in the throes of the fight for recognition, and the current legislative efforts, in state houses across America and the world, to strip trans people of their rights to receive gender affirming care and to live as their gender. 

As legal professionals, we facilitate justice and need to do so for all individuals in our community. This includes those with disabilities. But how do we ensure that we recognize and uplift that disability is another facet of individuals' identities? This workshop will provide perspectives from many community members on why it is vital to include disability in your DEI work, your career, and your life. This event will offer big ideas for how we can collaborate in this space and knock down our biases to seamlessly integrate disability justice into our work using intersectional principles for diversity, equity and inclusion. We will also provide tips for how you can help ensure that people with disabilities are included as part of the DEI conversation.

Join us for a fun and interactive discussion about the new Rules of Court and State Bar Rules designed to improve civility in the legal profession. Learn about the power of civility in managing your cases and getting the best results for your clients. The Rules of Professional Conduct require one hour of civility MCLE training every three years — register and fulfill your requirement!