Thursday, March 17th
8 a.m PST| 11 a.m EST
Offered by Will Work For Food and moderated by Jeff Kichaven (www.JeffKichaven.com ) and Jean Lawler (www.LawlerADR.com)
This worldwide conversation will be like nothing else. Join in! Share, learn, have fun.
Please consider donating to Ms. Rosing’s preferred food bank, The San Diego Food Bank.
Our Special guest this week, Heather Rosing, Shareholder and CEO at Klinedinst Attorneys, will present:
A Perilous Landscape: Top Ethics Tips for 2022
A dynamic presentation on the Top 8 Ethics Tips that you must know to run your practice. To practice law in today's environment, the prudent practitioner needs to be well schooled on the Rules of Professional Conduct and aware of the practical risk posed by specific situations and scenarios. Our panel will share insider knowledge about the application of the ethics rules and concrete ways of ensuring compliance. Join us to learn more about topics like avoiding trust accounting scams, working with clients with diminished capacity, and navigating complex topics such as aggregate settlements, withdrawal from representation, lateral hiring, and utilizing nonlawyer marketing partners. Our speaker Ms. Rosing is a top-rated ethicist, risk manager, and legal malpractice attorney. This presentation promises to be interesting and informative!
Heather L. Rosing is a Shareholder with Klinedinst PC, with five offices across the West. Ms. Rosing chairs the firm’s Professional Liability and Ethics Department and serves as the CEO and President. Ms. Rosing litigates and tries complex malpractice and fraud cases, advises in the areas of ethics and risk management, and serves as an expert witness. In her decades of defending lawyers and other professionals, Ms. Rosing has numerous notable victories in legal malpractice cases in state court, federal court, and arbitration. She also defends judicial officers before the Commission on Judicial Performance. Well known for her advocacy and contributions to the profession, Ms. Rosing was one of 18 lawyers honored as “Lawyer of the Decade” by the Daily Journal in January 2021. In September 2021, the San Diego legal community came together at the annual Red Boudreau Trial Lawyers Dinner to recognize Ms. Rosing with the Daniel T. Broderick III Award, which honors the highest standards of civility, dedication, and professionalism in the practice of law.
Ms. Rosing is a certified specialist in legal malpractice and a former member of the ABA Standing Committee on Lawyers Professional Liability. She served as an appointed advisor to the Rules Revision Commission of the State Bar of California, which recommended wholesale revisions to the Rules of Professional Conduct (adopted in large part by the California Supreme Court in 2018), and as an appointed member of the Mandatory Insurance Working Group of the State Bar. She frequently speaks on a pro bono basis on malpractice, ethics, and risk management issues across California and the country. Ms. Rosing was also appointed to serve as the co-vice chair of the Civility Task Force, which is a joint effort among the California Lawyers Association (CLA), the State Bar, and the California Judges Association (CJA). In addition, Ms. Rosing is a member of the CJA’s Judicial Fairness Coalition, which focuses on education about the judicial branch and the importance of judicial independence. She is also an appointed member of the ABA Standing Committee on Specialization, which accredits specialty certification programs for lawyers in particular fields of law offered by private organizations. In 2020, when the COVID 19 pandemic disrupted the judicial system, Ms. Rosing was part of the Steering Committee of RESOLVE Law San Diego, which offered free mediations and discovery referee services to civil litigants across the county.