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Lawghter is the Best Medicine: A Day of CLE With Sean Carter, Humorist at Law
December 15, 2023
Credits
N/A
MCLE: 6.00
Ethics: 5.00
SAMH: 1.00
Pricing
Dates
Friday, December 15, 2023Time
8:50 AM - 4:30 PMRegistration Deadline
Thursday, December 14, 2023
Live in person hours at SC Bar Conference Center, 1501 Park St, Columbia, SC 29201. Includes Satellite Sites see below for locations and addresses.
Join the SC Bar CLE Division on December 15 as we welcome Sean Carter, Humorist at Law, for "Lawghter is the Best Medicine: A Day of CLE." See the agenda tab for additional details.
Sean Carter graduated
from Harvard Law School in 1992. His ten years of legal practice focused on
corporate securities and mergers and acquisitions. During this time, he
represented such clients as GNC, Experian, The Boston Beer Company, Homeside
Lending, Safelite Auto Glass, J. Crew and many others. Most recently, he served
as in-house counsel to a publicly-traded finance company.
In 2002, Mr. Carter
left the practice of law to pursue a career as the country's foremost Humorist
at Law. Since then, Mr. Carter has crisscrossed the country delivering comedic
professional educational seminars for more than 400 organizations in more than
40 states. He is also the author of the first-ever comedic legal treatise -- If
It Does Not Fit, Must You Acquit?: Your Humorous Guide to the Law.
Finally, Sean lives in Mesa, Arizona with his wife and four sons.
http://www.lawhumorist.com
This program qualifies for 6.0 MCLE credit hours, including up to 5.0 LEPR credit hours and 1.0 SA/MH credit hour. SC Supreme Commission on CLE Course #: 239707.
Seminar Locations
Attendees can register to attend in person at the SC Bar Conference Center in Columbia, or one of the 3 other locations listed below. All 4 sites count as "in-person" MCLE hours. Please make your selection during the registration process.
- Columbia-SC Bar Conference Center, 1501 Park Street
- Charleston- Charleston School of Law, 385 Meeting Street, Room 104
- Greenville- The University Center, 225 S. Pleasantburg Drive (enter the building where all the college flags are) Rm 514
- THIS SITE FULL:Rock Hill- York County Family Courthouse, 1555 West Main Street, Jones Assembly Room
The South Carolina Bar is an accredited CLE provider in South Carolina only. Attorneys are responsible for seeking their own credit in other jurisdictions.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in CLE programs and publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the South Carolina Bar, its sections, or committees.
Registration Fees
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Agenda
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Charleston 385 Meeting Street Charleston, SC 29401 |
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Columbia 1501 Park Street Columbia, SC 29201 |
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Greenville 225 S. Pleasantburg Drive Greenville, SC 29607 |
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time.
Continuing Education
Agenda
8:30 a.m.
Registration
8:50 a.m.
Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 a.m.
The Ethy Awards
Each year, Hollywood celebrates the best performances in
motion pictures at the Oscars. Well, each year, we note the worst ethics
violations in the legal profession at the Ethys. Sean Carter will host the
festivities and announce the award winners for:
- Least Competent in a Legal Representation
- Best Supporting Actor (in a criminal activity)
- Worst Love Scene
- Most Creative Billing
- Worst Temper in a Non-Legal Setting
- Most Impaired in a Legal Setting
- The Lifetime Achievement Award
- And much more ...
In the process of recapping these egregious instances of
unethical behavior, Mr. Carter will demonstrate how the rest of us can
avoid more common ethical violations.
11 a.m.
Break
Attorney, Heal Thyself!
Sean will discuss substance abuse and common mental
illnesses that impair a lawyer's ability to faithfully fulfill his/her
duties as both an advocate and an officer of the court. Specifically, he will
explain how substance abuse and mental illness play a part in many disciplinary
matters / malpractice cases and the most common ethical violations
resulting from these ailments (e.g., failure to communicate, lack of
diligence, trust account violations, etc.). Sean will then closely examine the
detection, treatment, and prevention of each specific malady.
12:15 p.m.
Lunch Break
1:15 p.m.
Ethical Jeopardy
This session is modeled after the popular TV gameshow,
you will compete against your fellow attendees in answering legal
ethics-related questions, such as the one below:
Which of the following is NOT grounds to disclose client information?
- To prevent death or harm to another person
- To defend oneself against civil, criminal, or
disciplinary charges
- To impress prospective clients
- To prevent fraud
Lawyers will be allowed to make their selections via
cellphone (or other electronic device) and see their scores in real-time. At
the end of the program, a winner will be announced, and each lawyer will
be able to see how they fared against the “competition."
2:15 p.m.
Short Break
2:20 p.m.
Who Wants to be Disbarred?
In this program modeled after the TV game show, Who
Wants To Be A Millionaire?, you will compete against your fellow attendees
in answering legal ethics-related questions, such as the one below:
Which of the following conflicts of interest is prohibited by the ethics canon?
A. Being related to the client.
B. Going to the same high school as the judge.
C. Being close friends with opposing counsel.
D. Lending money to the client.
Lawyers will be allowed to make their selections via cellphone (or other
electronic device) and see their scores in real-time. At the end of
the program, a winner will be announced, and each lawyer will be able to
see how they fared against the “competition."
3:20 p.m.
Break
3:30 p.m.
Discipline or No Discipline
In this interactive game modeled after the popular
television game show, Deal or No Deal, you will be presented with
30 briefcases. Each briefcase contains the details of an actual
disciplinary case that was filed against a U.S. lawyer. Inside each case
are the facts leading to discipline and then, as counsel for the
respondent, you will be offered a "deal" (e.g., a reprimand, 1-year
suspension, etc.). It will be your job to decide whether to accept
the proposed discipline or to reject it, in hopes that the actual sanction
imposed was less severe than the proposed sanction. If you choose
correctly (accepting a good deal or rejecting a bad deal), you will be awarded
the points contained in that briefcase.
Lawyers will be allowed to choose “Discipline” or “No
Discipline" via cellphone (or other electronic device) and see their
scores in real-time. At the end of the program, a winner will be announced,
and each lawyer will be able to see how they fared against the
“competition."
4:30 p.m.
Adjourn