Lunch Hour Ethics

by Gregg Lombardi, Executive Director

It’s always been hard to get the mandatory one hour of ethics CLE’s each year and, in January, the Missouri Supreme Court announced that all Missouri lawyers will now be required to have two hours of ethics CLE each year, even in the current reporting year.

If you want a free and easy way of picking up an extra hour of ethics credit, Legal Aid can help. As you know, Missouri lawyers all have an ethical responsibility to do pro bono work. Legal Aid’s Volunteer Attorney Project team has created a free, one-hour CLE reviewing the ethical responsibility to do pro bono work and discussing the pro bono projects that VAP offers and which attorneys can use to satisfy their pro bono responsibility.

And we’re taking the CLE on the road. We will do over-the-lunch hour presentations to law firms and other groups of 10 or more attorneys. We’ll even come to your office. If you’re a solo practitioner or in a small firm, there’s no problem. Give us a call and we will get you signed up for a session at another firm or we’ll put together a group of attorneys for a CLE.

Call our Volunteer Attorney Project Director, Latricia Scott Adams at (816)474-1413 x 234 to schedule your CLE.