Rising Challenges to Freedom of Speech and Respect for Ideological Diversity in the Legal Profession

Join the North Dakota Lawyers Chapter for a presentation at the North Dakota Annual Bar Meeting.

Featuring:

• Professor Michael McGinniss, of the University of North Dakota Law School.

 

Tickets: Free; Please RSVP in advance

1.0 CLE Credit

 

This one-hour ethics CLE program presented by UND Law Professor (and former Dean) Michael McGinniss will provide attendees with perspectives on Rule 8.4(g) of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct. In particular, he will explore the significant legal and practical challenges that Rule 8.4(g), and its adoption in various forms among the states, poses to freedom of speech and respect for ideological diversity in the legal profession. Professor McGinniss will open his presentation with a brief reflection on sixteenth-century England’s Thomas More, patron saint of lawyers, and the meaning that his life and ethical example of integrity in remaining true to his moral convictions may offer for lawyers today, based on his article Expressing Conscience with Candor: Saint Thomas More and First Freedoms in the Legal Profession, published in the HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW & PUBLIC POLICY.

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