Charles F. Luce, Jr. on Legal Ethics: National Webcast: Legal Ethics: The Latest Malpractice Risks and Prevention

Saturday, May 25, 2013

National Webcast: Legal Ethics: The Latest Malpractice Risks and Prevention

Happy Memorial Day, everyone. Please forgive my inattention to the blog lately. I've been busy writing materials for a national webcast to be recorded at NBI's headquarters in Altoona, Wisconsin in June. My ethics presentations have been recorded live many times, but never for a national ethics webcast. Exciting yes, but it has sucked virtually all writing time out of my weekends for the last two months. If you can't tune into the webcast on Friday 28 June, if you need ethics CLE credit it is still available (for a fee) as on-demand video from NBI.

Although I am finally done writing for NBI, I just promised the Denver Business Journal an article in June, tentatively titled How to Fire a Client. So it's going to be a while yet before I get back to the blog.

Mirror Lake in the Eagle Cap. (photo by denisseattle)

Fear not, though. I've been stockpiling what I think are some great ideas for the blog -- some lighter, summer fare. I should have time to write and post at least one article before the start of my my first summer vacation in 5 years -- a mid-July backpacking trip through the Eagle Cap Wilderness Area with my oldest daughter. New hiking boots have acquired to be broken in, new gear must be purchased, and I need also need to re-up my FAA medical and biennial flight review in June. It's going to be a busy summer.

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I first became interested in the practical application of legal ethics in law school. As an alternative to a written final exam, my friend, John Gray, and I collaborated on a project to demonstrate our comprehension of the then-intricate rules of attorney advertising by writing and producing unethical legal radio advertisements which systematically violated each and every rule.

Later, John Carver and the University of Denver College of Law gave me the opportunity to teach Legal Professional as a Lecturer in Law at DU.

About the same time, I joined the Colorado Bar Association's Legal Ethics Committee, one of the finest groups of professionals with whom I have ever been associated. I have been a member continuously since 1986, and have served longer as the in-house ethics adviser for our firm.

In the course of teaching ethics, representing attorneys and law firms as a counselor and advocate, serving as an expert witness, Ethics Committee work, and analyzing our firm's own day-to-day ethics and legal practice issues, I have amassed a fair amount of research on legal ethics and issues related to the practice of law. I have accumulated an even greater number of opinions regarding these subjects.

In 1997 I built the first website devoted to Colorado legal ethics. That website still exists, but I decided I a blog would be easier to to maintain than continuing to code in raw HTML.

Here you will find various short pieces on legal ethics and the practice of law, some with links to long articles I have written. The rules, policies and practices relating to legal ethics and the practice of law are dynamic, so I periodically update, revise and add materials to this site. Please check back from time to time to see what is new.

Thank you for visiting.