Proactive Practices: Maintaining Competence and Wellness in the Practice of Law Out of Stock
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December 2017
Proactive Practices: Maintaining Competence and Wellness in the Practice of Law
Join in the Innovation! Proactive Practices for Attorneys:
The Colorado Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel has launched an innovative Self-Assessment Survey for attorneys. After a similar program was implemented in Australia, the data and results showed a dramatic decrease in complaints to Attorney Regulation. This new Self-Assessment Survey will assist attorneys in improving their practices by allowing them to self-assess how well they perform in 10 key areas. This CLE program will review two of the key principles of the new Colorado Self-Assessment Program for attorneys.
MEET YOUR PRESENTERS:
Barbara A. Ezyk, Esq., is the Executive Director of the Colorado Lawyer Assistance Program, pursuant to Rule 254, as adopted by the Colorado Supreme Court. Ms. Ezyk has been a Colorado licensed attorney since 1995 and licensed Registered Nurse since 1983. Ms. Ezyk obtained her law degree from the University of Denver and her Bachelor's degree in Nursing from the Metropolitan State College in Denver. Ms. Ezyk worked in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for approximately 10 years; as a trial attorney for approximately 10 years, as a Legal Risk Manager for 3 years at United Health Care and the Substance Use Education Director at Peer Assistance Services for 2 years. Ms. Ezyk has worked with judges, lawyers and law students in need of assistance due to physical and mental health issues. She has served on the Colorado Lawyers Helping Lawyers Board of Directors and has been an active participant of the Colorado Bar Association and the ABA Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs.
Karen Hammer, Esq. is an active leader within the legal community. She is currently the Co-Secretary of the Colorado Bar Association’s Ethics Committee and responds to ethics inquiries from attorneys calling the CBA’s Ethics Hotline. She is also a member of the joint CBA-Denver Bar Association Professionalism Committee and the joint CBA-DBA Legal Fee Arbitration Committee. She is a member of the United States Supreme Court Bar and was a previous appointee to the White House and Congressional Conference on Character Building in Education. Hammer has worked for prominent law firms, as well as holding senior legal positions within industry-leading companies. She applies her experience with roughly $2 billion in innovative business transactions and complex financings to business litigation requiring an understanding of how individuals, businesses, and lawyers make decisions. She relies on her knowledge of complex business transactions to identify practical solutions to real world problems.
Jonathan P. White, Esq. is a staff attorney at the Colorado Supreme Court Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel. He is the day-to-day project manager for the Colorado Supreme Court Advisory Committee’s Proactive Management-Based Program (PMBP) Subcommittee. The subcommittee is developing a program to help Colorado lawyers better serve their clients through proactive practice self-assessments. The self-assessments also promote compliance with the Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct. Mr. White rejoined the Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel in November 2016 after previously working for the office as a law clerk in 2009 and 2010.
Mr. White practiced civil defense litigation for several years before rejoining the Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel. Mr. White also served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Christopher Cross and the Honorable Vincent White of the Douglas County District Court in Castle Rock, Colorado. In 2009, fellow law students selected him to receive the annual Family Law Clinic Award in recognition of his work in the law school’s clinical program. Mr. White is a member of the Colorado Bar Association, the Arapahoe County Bar Association, and the National Organization of Bar Counsel.
Program Highlights:
- Colo. RPC 1.1
- The Knowledge and Education Needed to Handle a Matter
- Assessing Whether You Have Adequate Expertise, Training, and Legal Skills to Handle a Matter
- Resources Necessary for Competence: Time, Finances, Staffing, and Willingness
- Wellness in One’s Personal and Professional Life
- Referrals and Resources for Mental Health Issues
- The Relationship between Competence and Wellness
- Utilizing the Colorado Lawyer Self-Assessment Program to Assess Your Practice and Claim CLE Credit
- CLE Pass Price *FREE! - exclusions may apply
- Standard Price $59.00 USD
- Member Price $39.00 USD
- General Credits 2.00
- Ethics Credits 1.80
- EDI Credits