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Section Meeting - Ethics

  • 14 Jul 2015
  • 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Advanced Deposition, 17752 Skypark Circle, Suite 100 Irvine, CA 92614
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Recent Updates in Ethics – 2015

When:  14 July 2015 (Tuesday) 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. (PDT)

Location:  Advanced Deposition, 17752 Skypark Circle, Suite 100, Irvine, CA 92614

Presented by:  Carole Buckner, Esq., St. Francis School of Law

Carole is an AV Peer Review Rated sole practitioner admitted to the California State Bar in 1984. She holds a BA from the University of California at Berkeley (1980) and a JD from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco (1984).  Carole has been a member of the California State Bar’s Committee on Professionalism and Conduct (COPRAC). COPRAC authors State Bar ethics opinions and ethics alerts, and provides continuing legal education to the members of the bar.  She has also spoken and written extensively on a wide variety of ethics related topics. Carole has also participated as a panelist on the annual update on ethics-related cases.  

Carole has taught the core professional responsibility at Western State University College of Law. She also taught Legal Ethics and Business Representation, which addresses ethical issues for corporate and transactional lawyers, including conflicts of interest and confidentiality, the lawyer as director, ethical issues in corporate internal investigations, related party transactions and the corporate opportunity doctrine, lawyers taking equity interests, and other important issues.

Currently, Carole is the Dean of St. Francis School of Law.  She is the former Dean and Chief Academic Officer of Abraham Lincoln University, School of Law in Los Angeles, California, where she taught Contemporary Ethical Issues, covering judicial ethics, prosecutorial misconduct, client trust accounting, conflicts of interest and screening, and other issues, as well as other courses.  She also served as Associate Dean at Concord Law School of Kaplan University.

On the local level, Carole is a member of the Orange County Bar Association, and is co-chair of the OCBA’s Professionalism and Ethics Committee. She has served as a contributing editor of the Ethically Speaking column in the OC Lawyer Magazine for over five years, and has authored numerous articles on a variety of topics, including attorneys’ fees, judicial recusal, the attorney client privilege, sex with clients, temporary or contract lawyering, screening, the self-defense privilege, impaired lawyers, and other ethics related topics.

Carole is also a member of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers (APRL), and the former chair of the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Professional Responsibility and Ethics Committee (PREC).

OCPA is a State Bar of California Approved MCLE provider and certifies that this seminar qualifies for MCLE CREDIT 1.0 (Ethics).

Event Fee: $10.00 for OCPA members, $20.00 for non-members, $20.00 for Walk-ins.

Deadline for registering for this event:  July 10, 2015. 

Thank you to Advanced Deposition for hosting this meeting.

*Space is limited for all OCPA events, so please submit your reservation via this website event. Walk-ins are welcome on a first come first serve basis if space is available.

*Cancellation Policy - If you need to cancel your reservation, please e-mail the Ethics Section Co-Chair Vicky La Celle at vicky.ocpa@outlook.com or Kathy Miller at khmiller@cox.net. No refunds will be issued. Credit for a future meeting will be held in your OCPA account which may be applied to future meetings if your cancellation is received no less than 48 hours prior to the event.

Questions? Please contact the Ethics Section Co-Chair Vicky La Celle at vicky.ocpa@outlook.com or Kathy Miller at khmiller@cox.net or VP Administration Lorena Hughes at lhughes@landrylaw.net. If you have a topic or speaker you would like to hear at an upcoming section meeting, please let us know.

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