Program Highlights

- Plato's The Gorgias addressing the 'false' art of rhetoric and the search for truth

Program Description:

of their negotiating and writing skills.

Materials include:

Agenda:

8:30 - 9:00am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00am - 12:00pm

Program

10:00 - 10:15am

Networking Break

The Honorable Russell Carparelli was sworn in as a Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals in February 2003. He serves on the Chief Justice's Commission on the Legal Profession, and is the chair of the working group on bench and bar professionalism. Judge Carparelli is also a member of the Joint Professionalism Coordinating Council of the Colorado and Denver Bar Associations, and is a frequent speaker on the topics of professionalism and civility. In 2008, the Denver Bar Association awarded Judge Carparelli its Judicial Excellence Award for 2008 in recognition of his contributions to civic education. In January 2012, he received the University of Virginia School of Law's Honorable William J. Brennan, Jr., Award for outstanding skill as a trial lawyer and member of the judiciary as well as his contributions to the National Trial Advocacy College and the legal profession. In July 2012, the American Bar Association Alternative Dispute Resolution Section named him as the recipient of its Civility and Law Award. Judge Carparelli holds degrees from the University of Virginia School of Law, the University of Denver College of Law and the U.S. Air Force Academy.

Michael Sabbeth, Esq. has been a panelist on several continuing legal education ethics programs. He lectures nationally on ethics, rhetoric and trial advocacy to bar associations, judicial conferences and district attorney associations. He lectures to corporate and civic groups on ethics, rhetoric and persuasion as a management and executive skill. He has been an adjunct professor at Arapahoe Community College and Metropolitan State University in Denver where he taught courses on Ethics, Rhetoric and Propaganda and Entrepreneurialism. Mr. Sabbeth lectures to bar associations and continuing legal education groups throughout Colorado and nationally on the topic of ethics and rhetoric. He has written articles in national publications on ethics with an emphasis on teaching ethics to children. He has been featured in The Christian Science Monitor for his volunteer work teaching ethics in Denver-area schools. After the Columbine High School killings Mr. Sabbeth lectured on skills for ethical reasoning to the Littleton Fire Department to enhance the department's school outreach programs. 

Mr. Sabbeth has taught classes on moral reasoning in Denver-area public and private schools for twenty years. His book The Good, The Bad and The Difference: How to Talk with Children About Values is a guide for parents and for other persons working with children on how to talk with children about ethics and values and how to teach moral reasoning. The book has been available since late October 2010. Mr. Sabbeth graduated from Williams College with an Honors degree in Political Economy in 1969 and from the University of Denver Law School in 1973. He is a sole practitioner in Denver. He writes for many magazines on travel, fishing and engraving. He is married and has three children.