I.   Malpractice and Ethics Violation Avoidance for Hard Times

·         Dabbling

·         Anger Control

II.   Update on Lawyer Ethics and Professionalism Issues 2010

  THE FACULTY

 

ROBERT H. DAVIS, JR., ESQUIRE Harrisburg, PA Mr. Davis is in the solo private practice of law in Harrisburg, PA.  His practice was initially general in nature but now focuses upon representation and advice to lawyer respondents, judicial officers, health professionals, government employees and officers and others in Pennsylvania and West Virginia before professional and judicial discipline boards and the State Ethics Commission.  He counsels law firms, lawyers, judges, government officials and employees and other professionals on questions of professional responsibility, ethics, malpractice avoidance and the law of lawyering.  Mr. Davis also provides advisory opinions and serves as an expert witness on questions of professional responsibility, ethics, fiduciary duties of lawyers and other professionals and the law of lawyering.    Mr. Davis is an adjunct professor at the Widener University School of Law’s Harrisburg Campus, teaching professional responsibility and an advanced ethics problems seminar.  In 2004, he received the Adjunct Faculty Distinguished Service Award from Widener.   Mr. Davis served as Deputy Chief and as Acting Chief Counsel of the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania from 1986 until August 1992.  Prior to coming to Pennsylvania, he was Counsel to the West Virginia State Bar (1980-1986) and served as the first staff Assistant General Counsel for the State Bar of Georgia (1972-1980).  He is a graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law (J.D. 1972) and Vanderbilt University (B.A., 1967).  In 2009, Mr. Davis became a Fellow of the American Bar Association Foundation.

RICHARD H. LINDNER, ESQUIRE Lindner Law Offices, Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Lindner received his undergraduate degree in 1974 from West Virginia University, and earned his Juris Doctorate from Duquesne University School of Law in 1978.  He served as a judicial clerk for a year after graduating from law school, and then maintained an office as a sole practitioner, as well as a part-time public defender and court-appointed criminal defense counsel, between August 1979 and September 1981.  He was then employed for five years with the Office of Disciplinary Counsel in Pittsburgh, where he was involved in the investigation and prosecution of complaints of professional misconduct against attorneys.   Since September 1986, Mr. Lindner has concentrated in attorney ethics and disciplinary law.  Over the past 24 years, his practice has primarily involved:  representing attorneys in disciplinary and reinstatement proceedings, fee dispute matters, and proceedings before the Client Security Fund; representing Bar applicants before the Board of Law Examiners; and providing preventive advice to attorneys on a wide range of ethics issues, such as advertising, conflicts of interest, handling entrusted funds, law firm dissolutions and closing a law practice.  He has also advised Judges on judicial conduct matters and has represented other professionals, including nurses, psychologists, pharmacists and accountants, in disciplinary matters.