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Attorneys, law students and paralegals who need continuing education credit are invited to participate. The event will not be open to the public.
Pre-registration is not required, but box lunches will only be available to those who order in advance.
Donald F. Miles, a judge of the State Bar Court of California, will be the featured speaker.
Judge Miles was appointed to the State Bar Court by Gov. Schwarzenegger in 2006. He is a graduate of Stanford University (With Distinction, 1971) and Hastings College of the Law, University of California (Order of the Coif, 1974) and served as law clerk to Justice William P. Clark Jr. of the California Supreme Court before entering private practice in 1975.
He is a former director of the San Francisco law firm of Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk and Rabkin, where he chaired the litigation department and served as firm counsel. Miles also is a former partner of Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley, where he had offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Judge Miles is a frequent lecturer and educator. He has been an adjunct professor at Hastings College of the Law, teaching evidence/advocacy; and he has taught trial practice programs for Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB), Hastings Center for Trial and Appellate Advocacy and the Federal Practice Program for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
He is now a frequent lecturer on the professional obligations of attorneys.
Members of the State Bar of California and Licensed Paralegals are required to participate in mandatory continuing legal education in order to maintain an active license.
Special courses in legal ethics, the elimination of bias in the legal profession and in detection and prevention of substance abuse or mental illness are part of the MCLE requirements.
For additional information about the class, contact Mary Heare Amodio, president of the Lake County Bar Association, at 707-263-5759.
