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This class is not eligible for D.C. Bar CLE Passport use.
Credits: 3.0 ethics & professionalism credit hours
Description: Clarence Darrow is still, ninety years after his death, the legal profession's most admired practitioner. But the famed criminal trial lawyer and anti-death penalty champion mesmerized juries long before any ethics rules were imposed on his profession, and it certainly showed. At the same time, Darrow provided an invaluable role model for generations of lawyers to come, by brilliantly demonstrating how a lawyer’s devotion to the ethical values of competence, diligence, and zeal could not only change lives, but change the law and society.
Acclaimed D.C. area stage and screen actor Steve Lebens channels Darrow both in the icon’s personal reflections and his most famous courtroom oratory. Attendees are the jury; the brilliance and humanity of this extraordinary philosopher and advocate fill the room. After each segment, legal ethicist, lawyer, and Darrow historian Jack Marshall will expand on the ethical issues raised by each case and Darrow’s handling of them. The topics, brought up to date for 2025, will include the following:
- Character and fitness
- “Mission lawyers”
- Unsavory clients
- Jury nullification
- Technology in litigation
- Dirty tricks and courtroom theatrics
- Dishonesty and misrepresentation
- Fraud on the tribunal
- Politicizing the law
- Unethical withdrawal
- The evolution of the ethics rules
- And more
This a new and interactive class created and taught by attorney Jack Marshall, president of the D.C. ethics training firm ProEthics Ltd, which has been twice honored by the American Continuing Legal Education Association for innovation in seminar development. He has created and taught ethics courses for over twenty bar associations as well as many law firms, federal agencies, and corporate legal departments. He is also an award-winning stage director and a member of the D.C. and Massachusetts bars.
Faculty: Jack A. Marshall, ProEthics Ltd and Steve Lebens
Fees: $89 D.C. Bar Communities Members, $99 D.C. Bar Members, $109 Government and Nonprofit Attorneys, and $129 Others
The D.C. Bar CLE Program now offers discounted group registration rates! For more information, contact the CLE Office at CLE@dcbar.org or 202-626-3488.
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