Civility and Diversity in the Profession 2022

Agenda / Content Covered

1. Civility in the Legal Profession: What You Must Know
   10:00 — 11:15, Joseph Russell
   1. Forms of Incivility
   2. Relevant Rules of Professional Conduct
   3. Impact of Incivility on the Legal Practice
   4. Incivility: Causes and Consequences
   5. Analyzing Hypotheticals and Opinions
   6. Tips and Tricks for Dealing With Incivility in the Legal Profession
2. Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in the Legal Practice: How to Do It Right
   11:30 — 1:15, Casey Erick
   1. Definitions of Critical Terms
   2. Relevant Rules of Professional Conduct
      1. RPC 8.4(g) and State Alternatives
      2. A New Model Rule 8.5? Current Rule-Making Efforts
   3. Statistics on Diversity in the Legal Practice: What Attorneys Need to Know
   4. Inclusiveness and Diversity in Law Firms: Why It Matters
   5. Barriers to Cultural Competence and Inclusivity
   6. Best Practices for Building Cultural Competence and Creating an Inclusive Law Firm
   7. Hypotheticals

Accreditation Details:

Casey S Erick is a shareholder with Cowles & Thompson, P.C., and focuses on commercial litigation and employment law. He has represented clients in both litigation and transactional matters that span across commercial law, labor and employment, real estate, consumer protection, and general litigation including, but not limited to breach of contract, corporate trade secret theft, tortious interference, defamation, personal injury, fraud, and various other kinds of civil litigation. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas and Dallas Bar Association. Mr. Erick earned his B.A. degree, cum laude, from the University of Mississippi and his J.D. degree from Baylor School of Law.

Joseph M Russell is a shareholder in the Milwaukee office of von Briesen & Roper, s.c., where he is a member of the Litigation and Risk Management Practice Group. Mr. Russell has litigated a wide variety of cases in state and federal courts throughout the country, including commercial, environmental, mass tort, product liability, franchise, consumer fraud, healthcare, trade secrets, campaign finance and civil rights cases. He is also the firm’s ethics counsel. In this role, he addresses ethics issues for the firm, including research and analysis of complicated ethical and risk management issues. He regularly speaks on ethics to various groups. Mr. Russell is a member of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of Wisconsin (member, Ethics Committee), the Milwaukee Bar Association (chair, Government Law Section), the Seventh Circuit Bar Association and the Eastern District of Wisconsin Bar Association. His bar admissions include Wisconsin; Illinois; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin; Northern District of Illinois; District of Colorado; and the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Russell earned his B.A. degree, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Georgetown University; his M. Phil. degree from Trinity College, University of Dublin; his M.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin and his J.D. degree from Northwestern University School of Law (Senior Manuscript Editor, Northwestern Law Review, Moot Court Committee).