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Lincoln on Professionalism


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  • Start Date:2022-10-02 20:00:00
  • End Date:2024-10-02 20:00:00
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  • Level:Basic
  • Topics:Ethics

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Overview

Calling all Abraham Lincoln and history buffs!

Prepare for 3 “power hours”: Lincoln’s lessons to live by, all wrapped up in “wild card” ethics credits! The perfect blend of entertainment and education, this program demonstrates the value of living by Lincoln’s teachings—professionally and personally.

Incorporate his guiding principles into your practice and life:

  • Lack of Vanity
  • Candor with the Court
  • Justice and Fairness
  • Candor to Opposing Counsel
  • Dignity and Civility
  • Courtesy and Goodwill
  • Brevity and Clarity
  • Candor to Client
  • Diligence

Watch his lessons come to life through professionally produced video vignettes

Video clips describing Lincoln’s life and beliefs are coupled with an engaging discussion that provides a modern context to the model of professionalism that Lincoln provides.

Agenda

An Introduction to Abraham Lincoln’s Life

Can Lawyer Lincoln Really Speak to Today’s Lawyer?

Video Vignettes and Panel Discussion
Lincoln’s Qualities of Professionalism:

  • Lack of Vanity
  • Candor with the Court
  • Justice and Fairness
  • Candor to Opposing Counsel
  • Dignity and Civility

“You Aren’t in Charge Here, Abe!”
How Might Lincoln Approach a Contentious Deposition?

Video Vignettes and Panel Discussion
Lincoln’s Qualities of Professionalism Continued:

  • Courtesy and Goodwill
  • Brevity and Clarity
  • Candor to Client
  • Diligence

“Wild Card” Credits

Don’t think you need three ethics credits? Ethics credits are “wild card” credits that can be applied either as ethics credits or generally toward your overall 12-credit CLE requirement.

Special thanks and acknowledgement to the Atlanta Bar Association, producers of the Lincoln on Professionalism DVD, for making the DVD and selected accompanying materials available. Both were prepared by the Atlanta Bar Association with the Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism.

Our thanks, as well, to the PBA Civility in the Profession Committee for their support and sponsorship of this program. The Committee’s mission is to instill, promote and enhance professionalism and civility within the legal profession by encouraging discussion about the importance of professionalism and civility among the members of the bar, the judiciary and the public. We hope this program offers a means for meeting that objective. 

All attendees will receive the course book as a digital download. A printed copy of the course book is available, at a discount to attendees, for $20. If you wish to purchase the printed version of the course book, please call PBI Customer Service at 800-932-4637.

Recorded in October 2022.

Faculty

Maureen Lally-Green (Ret.)

Retired Judge Lally-Green served as the Dean at Duquesne University School of Law from 2016-2019 and continues to teach as an adjunct professor of law. Before that, she served as Associate General Secretary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh for six years until she retired in August 2015. Judge Lally-Green served as a Pennsylvania Superior Court Judge from June 1998 through July 2009. She also served Duquesne University School of Law earlier, where she was a professor of law and earlier, as a lawyer with Westinghouse Electric Corporation and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Judge Lally-Green received her B.S. from Duquesne University and her J.D. from the Duquesne University School of Law. She serves as a member of the Boards of Directors of UPMC Mercy Hospital, Saint Vincent Seminary, Catholic Charities of Pittsburgh, Federated Mutual Fund Complex and CNX Resources, Inc. Judge Lally-Green is a member of the Allegheny County and Pennsylvania Bar Associations. 

Gregory Lee

Prof. Lee is a Professor of Law at Widener University Commonwealth Law School, where he teaches Constitutional Law, Professional Responsibility and Torts. He was selected Widener’s Outstanding Law Professor by the graduating class of 1995 and received Widener Law School’s inaugural Outstanding Teacher award as selected by the alumni in 1999. Prof. Lee’s ABA moot court teams advanced to Nationals three times in four years, and his 1993 team was recognized for the third best brief in the nation. He served as the chair of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Professional Responsibility and coordinates an annual conference between the deans of students of Pennsylvania’s law schools and Pennsylvania Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers. A leading advocate for the rights of people who are deaf or hard of hearing, Prof. Lee worked on the first case to guarantee people who are deaf the right to serve as jurors and also worked with the Pennsylvania Office of Mental Health to guarantee people who are deaf, deaf and blind or hard of hearing equal and effective access to mental health services. He is a former coach of blind and deaf wrestlers and coached two first team Deaf All-Americans and one East Coast Blind Conference champion. Prof. Lee has consulted on various issues with judicial and executive agencies in five states as well as with the Hearing Loss Association of America, the National Association for the Deaf, the American Deafness and Rehabilitation Association, NorCal Center for Law and the Deaf, and the National Center for Law and the Deaf. He has published over 40 law-related articles and is working on a book with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Coles. Prof. Lee has spoken on everything from God to fatherhood and Charles Dickens to Bruce Springsteen and has been an invited participant at conferences at a number of institutions, including Boston College, Duke, Fordham, Gallaudet University, New York University, Notre Dame, Penn State, Pepperdine, Villanova and the Wharton School of Business. He has also spoken at programs sponsored by the Pennsylvania Commonwealth, Common Pleas and Superior Courts and is a frequent presenter on ethics topics for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute.

Daniel Schuckers Esq.

Having retired in 2007 from his 20-year run as the Prothonotary of the Commonwealth Court in Harrisburg, Mr. Schuckers is now an adjunct professor at Widener University School of Law, where he teaches classes on federal administrative law and workers’ compensation law. Mr. Schuckers received his bachelor’s degree from Colgate University and a master’s degree in American History from Stanford University. While in Uganda, East Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer, he taught East African History for 2 years. Before attending the Dickinson School of Law, he taught American History and Modern European History at the York Campus of Penn State University. He received his J.D. from the Dickinson School of Law in 1973. Mr. Schuckers is the co-author of several law review articles concering Pennsylvania law, and he has co-authored Pennsylvania Appellate Practice, a three-volume treatise. From 1974 to 1984, he was an Assistant, later a Deputy, Attorney General in Harrisburg. 

Walter McGough Jr., Esq.

Mr. McGough is executive vice president and chief legal officer of UPMC, an integrated health system and health insurance plan affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to joining UPMC, he was a partner with Reed Smith, LLP, where he served as head of the firm’s Litigation Department from 1998 through 2006. Mr. McGough received his B.A. from Princeton University and his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. He clerked for the Honorable Collins J. Seitz, then chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and later for the Honorable William H. Rehnquist of the United States Supreme Court. From 1980 until 1982, he served as an assistant United States attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Mr. McGough is a fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and a former president of the Allegheny County Bar Association.


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