Presentations

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Attorney Discipline in Pennsylvania Updates and Hot Takes, Co-Panelist, Monthly PBI Live Webinar, April 2023
Ethical Considerations of Multi-party Representations, Co-panelist, American Bar Association, White Collar Crime Conference, March 2023
Post-Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization: Counseling and Lawyer Liability, Co-panelist, February 2023, APRL Mid-Year Meeting
There’s a Rule for That: Ethical Issues in Criminal Defense, Presenter, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers – Winning Strategies for the Defense – Advanced Criminal Law Seminar, Aspen, CO, Jan 2023
Professional Liability Program, Co-Panelist, Pennsylvania Bar Association, Women in the Profession Commission, November 2022
Attorney Discipline in Pennsylvania Updates and Hot Takes, Co-Panelist, Monthly PBI Live Webinar, June – Dec 2022
Ethics of Internal Investigation, Stetson Law School Business Law White Collar Crime Symposium, Course Planner and Moderator, February 2022
Legal Ethics in the National Spotlight ABA, Center for Professional Responsibility”, Presenter, October 2021
Attorney Discipline: Mitigation and Aggravation, Hearing Committee Training, Disciplinary Board of Pennsylvania, Co-Panelist, October 2016 – 2022
Lawyering in the DC Spotlight”, American Bar Association, Center for Professional Responsibility, Presenter, June 2021
Discipline, Sanctions and Public Perception: Attorney Regulation of High-Profile Cases, PBI March 2021, Moderator and Course Planner, March 2021
From Rudy Giuliani to Josh Hawley: What is the Role of Lawyer Discipline?; Presenter, Hofstra Law School, January 2021
Ethical Internal Investigations: Protecting the Company, the Individual and Yourself; Moderator, Lawline CLE Event, December 2020
Fee Agreements, Bank Accounts, Record-Keeping, and Succession Planning: What You Don’t Know Will Hurt You, Presenter, PACDL Webinar, June 2020
2020 Virtual Institute on White Collar Crime: Fundamentals of Trial Practice; Moderator, ABA Webinar, June 2020
There’s A Rule For That: Ethical Issues In Criminal Defense, Presenter, PACDL Webinar, June 2020
PBA Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee Update 2020; Presenter, PBI Webinar, April 2020
From Rudy Giuliani to Josh Hawley: What is the Role of Lawyer Discipline?, Co-panelist, Hofstra Law’s Monroe H. Freedman Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics, Jan 2020
The Knowledge Group Presents Legal Ethics: A Comprehensive Guide for Lawyers LIVE Webcast Event; Presenter, January 2020
PBI, Criminal Law Update: Ethics Round-up; Panelist, December 2019
PBI, Business Law Institute, “Ethical Challenges in Commercial Practices: Fifty Shades of Gray”; Moderator, November 2019
Let’s Be Careful Out There: Changing Ethics for Criminal Defense Lawyers; Panelist, NACDL Annual White Collar Crime Conference in Washington, D.C., October 25, 2019
You’re in Business: When Business People are Lawyers and Lawyers are Business People; Course Presenter and Planner, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 2019
Stay in Your Lane: Ethics Hypos for the Criminal Defense Lawyer; Co-Presenter, Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, February, 2019
Criminal Defense and Ethics – There’s A Rule for That; Co-Presenter, Pennsylvania Bar Institute – Philadelphia, PA, December 2018
Lies, Damned Lies and Alternative Facts; Co-Panelist, American Bar Association, Center for Professional Responsibility, May 2018
Criminal Law Update: Ethics Update; Co-Panelist, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, December 14, 2017
What to Do When the Disciplinary Board Comes Calling, Co-panelist, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Annual Bankruptcy Institute, October, 2017
The Life of an Internal Investigation, Co-Planner, Moderator, Co-panelist, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, July 12, 2017
Ethics Issues in Federal Court; Co-Panelist, Third Circuit Bench & Bar Conference, April 2017
The Ethics of Internal Investigations: Interviewing the Witness, Instructor, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers’ First Annual White Collar Criminal Defense College, Stetson University College of Law, Gulfport, FL, March 2017
Maximizing Professional Relationships: Effective Mentoring Relationships, Supervising Relationships, and Diversity Development; Panelist, Philadelphia Bar Association – 2016 Public Interest Law Day, December 2016
The Top 10 Reasons the Disciplinary Board Comes Knocking; Presenter, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, November 2016
White Collar Appellate Update; Panelist, PACDL’s White Collar Practice Seminar, November 2016
The Top 10 Reasons the Disciplinary Board Comes Knocking; Presenter, Delaware County Bar Association, October 2016
There’s a Rule For That: The RPC and the Duty to Preserve Issues on Appeal; Co-Presenter, Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers – Harrisburg, April 2016
Embezzlement 101; Presenter, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Philadelphia, PA – April 2016
Ethical Limits of Trial Advocacy; Presenter, Lancaster County Paralegal Association’s 7th Annual Criminal Law & Forensics Conference, Lancaster, PA – April 2016
“New and Evolving Strategies in Obtaining, Managing, and Challenging the Use of Electronic Data”; Co-Presenter, American Bar Association’s 30th Annual National Institute on White Collar Crime – San Diego, March 2016
Subpoenas To Lawyers: An Ethical Duty To Resist?; Co-Presenter, Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers’ Mid-Year Meeting – San Diego, February 2016
The Jail Cell That Comes With Illegal Recordings: PA Wiretap Act; Presenter, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Philadelphia, December 2015
Ethical Limits to Trial Advocacy; Presenter, Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s Criminal Law Update, Philadelphia, December 2015
Is Climate Change Real? The Current Atmosphere and Future Forecast for White Collar Sentencing Guidelines; Moderator, Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers’ 2015 White Collar Practice, Philadelphia, November 2015
Breaking (from) Bad: Voluntary Corporate Disclosure of Individual Employee Misconduct; Co-Presenter, National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms 2015 Annual Meeting & Law Firm Expo, Los Angeles, September 2015
The Ethical Limits of Trial Advocacy: How High Can You Go?; Presenter, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers’ Annual Meeting – Denver, CO, July 2015
Retention of Counsel, the Search, and Investigating the Case; Instructor, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers’ First Annual White Collar Criminal Defense College, Stetson University College of Law, Gulfport, FL, March 2015
Ethics in the Digital Age; Presenter, American Bar Association’s 29th Annual National Institute on White Collar Crime, New Orleans, March 2015