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The Legal Ethics of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Content Partner: Celesq AttorneysEd Center

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Description: The American bar Association Model Rules of Professional Conduct serve as models for the ethics rules of most jurisdictions. Given that they have been adopted in whole or in part in nearly every jurisdiction, why is Model Rule 8.4(g) so controversial and why have so few states enacted it?

Join Bernard S. Burk, Veronica J. Finkelstein, and Nancy B. Rapoport to learn what this rule is designed to address, how it has been implemented in various jurisdictions, the legal challenges to the rule, and why some type of diversity, equity, and inclusion requirement might be appropriate for the legal profession.

Presenter Bios

Veronica J. Finkelstein is a 2004 graduate, with honors, of the Emory University School of Law and 2001 graduate, with dual honors, of the Pennsylvania State University.

Professor Finkelstein currently serves as an Assistant U.S. Attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice in Philadelphia. Previously she clerked for Judge Jane Cutler Greenspan of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. She was an associate with both Duane Morris, LLP and Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall and Furman, PC where she handled litigation and mediations involving construction, government contracts and surety law.
In addition to her legal practice, Professor Finkelstein has taught at the National Advocacy Center on ethics, appellate advocacy, legal writing, and trial practice. In 2014 she was awarded the Executive Office of United States Attorneys Director's Award for Superior Performance as a Civil Assistant United States Attorney. Finkelstein serves as adjunct faculty of law at Drexel Law, Emory Law, and Rutgers Law.

Nancy B. Rapoport is the Garman Turner Gordon Professor of Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and an Affiliate Professor of Business Law and Ethics in the Lee Business School at UNLV. After receiving her B.A., summa cum laude, from Rice University in 1982 and her J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1985, she clerked for the Honorable Joseph T. Sneed III on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and then practiced law (primarily bankruptcy law) with Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco from 1986-1991. She started her academic career at The^* Ohio State University College of Law in 1991, and she moved from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor with tenure in 1995 to Associate Dean for Student Affairs (1996) and Professor (1998) (just as she left Ohio State to become Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law). She served as Dean of the University of Nebraska College of Law from 1998-2000. She then served as Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center from July 2000-May 2006 and as Professor of Law from June 2006-June 2007, when she left to join the faculty at Boyd. She served as Interim Dean of Boyd from 2012-2013, as Senior Advisor to the President of UNLV from 2014-2015, as Acting Executive Vice President & Provost from 2015-2016, as Acting Senior Vice President for Finance and Business (for July and August 2017), and as Special Counsel to the President from May 2016-June 2018.

Bernie Burk is currently a Visiting Associate Professor at PennState Law in University Park, PA. He writes on ethics and professional conduct, as well as empirical studies on the legal profession and the legal academy. With Nancy Rapoport of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Law, and Veronica Finkelstein, Asst. U.S. Attorney for the E.D. Pa. and adjunct at Drexel University School of Law and Rutgers Law School Camden, he has just completed a Professional Responsibility textbook entitled Ethical Lawyering: A Guide for the Well-Intentioned for Aspen Press. He’s also a regular blogger on The Faculty Lounge (www.thefacultylounge.org). In addition, Prof. Burk engages in consulting and expert witness work in the areas of legal ethics and professional conduct. He attended Yale College and Stanford Law School.


Practice Areas:		Elimination of Bias & Diversity in the Legal Profession

Online Media Type:		Audio

Production Date:		06/13/2022

Level:		Intermediate

Category:		Standard

Duration:		1 Hours, 3 Minutes

Online Format:		On Demand

Course Type:		Public

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Expiration: 06/12/2025

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Speakers:

•	Veronica J. Finkelstein - U.S. Department of Justice
•	Bernie Burk - Associate Professor at PennState Law in University Park, PA
•	Nancy B. Rapoport - Professor of Law - Williams S. Boyd School of Law


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