Alison P. Buchanan to Moderate Panel at ABTL Dinner/CLE Program

Keeping Your Bearings In The Crucible: Ethics At Trial

Hoge Fenton attorney Alison P. Buchanan will be moderating a panel of high-profile trial lawyers and federal and state court judges at the American Business Trial Lawyers (ABTL)’s January Dinner/CLE Program. The panel, “Keeping Your Bearings In The Crucible: Ethics At Trial,” will discuss ethics issues that are unique to trial, including:

• Identifying the sometimes fuzzy line between ethical and not when dealing with witnesses
• Producing (or not producing) evidence
• Jury selection (including discrimination and the use of social media)
• References to non-existent or inadmissible evidence
• Asserting an unsupported position
• Client perjury
• Appealing to the jury’s passions and prejudices and other issues for closing argument
• Communicating with jurors before, during and after trial

For more information about this MCLE event (1.0 Legal Ethics unit) and to register, click here.

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Alison P. Buchanan is a regular and sought-after speaker and teacher on the topics of professional liability/professional malpractice and legal ethics. From 2011 through 2014, Alison served a three-year appointment to the California State Bar’s Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC). She serves on the Executive Committee of The Bar Association of San Francisco’s Legal Malpractice Section, chairs the Professionalism Committee for the Santa Clara County Bar Association, and teaches Professional Responsibility at Lincoln Law School in San Jose.

To read about Hoge Fenton’s Professional Liability group, please click here.