Ethics in Appellate Practice
Category: On Demand
Member Price: $294
Non-Member Price: $368
Areas of Law: Appellate Practice, Ethics
| NJ CLE: | NJ CLE information: This program has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 3.3 hours of total CLE credit, including 3.3 in Ethics (Full Credits Available: NJ Ethics: 3.3). |
| NY CLE (t&nt): | NY Ethics Non-Transitional: 3.0 |
| PA CLE: | PA Ethics Credit: 2.5
New: No PACLE fee is required for this program. To earn PA CLE credits, a valid PA Bar ID number must be entered into the CLE form provided after attending the program. |
Keynote
Moderator
- Catherine B. Derenze, Esq.
- Lite DePalma Greenberg & Afanador, LLC, Newark
Presenters
- Hon. Katie A. Gummer, J.A.D.
- New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division
- Rebekah R. Conroy, Esq.
- President, Association of the Federal Bar of New Jersey
Stone Conroy LLC, Florham Park - Natalie H. Mantell, Esq.
- McCarter & English, Newark
- Ezra D. Rosenberg
- Director of Appellate Advocacy, ACLU of New Jersey, Newark
- Christina Vassiliou Harvey, Esq.
- Lomurro Munson, LLC, Freeholdis a Partner in Lomurro, Munson, Comer, Brown & Schottland, LLC (Lomurro Law) in Freehold, New Jersey. She focuses her practice in appellate matters, personal injury litigation, disability matters, attorney ethics and horseracing law, and has experience litigating personal injury case for both the plaintiff and defense sides, medical malpractice cases for plaintiffs, commercial disputes, and prosecuting and defending insurance brokers and attorneys in claims of professional negligence.
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nMs. Harvey is admitted to practice in the state and federal courts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania at the trial and appellate levels, and before administrative agencies. A former Trustee of the New Jersey State Bar Association, she has been a member of the New Jersey Law Journal’s Young Lawyer Advisory Board and is Past Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division. Having served as President of the Mercer County Women Lawyers Caucus, she is a founding board member of the Community Justice Center, a non-profit organization that assists disabled veterans in obtaining disability benefits.
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nMs. Harvey has authored articles for the New Jersey Lawyer newspaper, NJ Esq., The Affiliate, The Young Lawyer and the New Jersey State Bar Association Young Lawyers Division Newsletter. She has lectured for ICLE on professional responsibility as part of the Skills and Methods course and for the NJSBA and other organizations on ethics, collections and client relations. She has received three "Star of the Quarter" awards and one “Star of the Year” award for her work in the American Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division and was the recipient of the Service to the Bar Award in 2009 and the Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year Award in 2013 from the NJSBA-Young Lawyers Division.
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nMs. Harvey received her B.A. from Douglass College, Rutgers University. She was a contract specialist for the United States Navy before attending Rutgers University School of Law and receiving her J.D. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable Dorothea O’C. Wefing, Presiding Judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.
Learn how to navigate the territory of ethics in appellate practice. An esteemed panel of appellate attorneys and an Appellate Division judge will address attorney ethical obligations, starting with the decision to file an appeal. Acquire knowledge about the duties of diligence, competence, and communication as applied during the appellate process. Discover attorney responsibilities under the Rules of Professional Conduct regarding candor to the tribunal. Gain information on what to do when a client wants an attorney to raise a frivolous argument on appeal. Listen to riveting panel discussions about ethical responsibilities through each phase of the appellate process. Register today!
Program Agenda:
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9:00 | Introduction – Catherine B. Derenze, Esq.
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9:05 | Should there be an appeal? – Panel
- Ethical issues, conflict of interest, R. 1:4-8(a)(1), (2)- (a), effect of signing, filing or advocating a paper; applicable RPC’s (Appellant) Fed. R. Civ. P. 11
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9:35 | Duty of Diligence (both sides), Duty of competence (both sides), and Duty of Communication (both sides) – Panel
- Applicable RPC’s, Use of AI in appellate practice in an ethical manner
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10:25 | Break
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10:35 | Candor to the tribunal (both sides), Applicable RPC’s – Panel
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11:15 | Obligation to argue points raised by client that counsel deems frivolous? – Panel
- Civil cases- R. 1:4-8; Fed. R. Civ. P. 11; RPC 3.3(a)(1) -
11:50 | Q&A
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12:00 | Adjourn