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About the Seminar
Stuart Teicher, the “CLE Performer” is a vastly entertaining speaker, but he is also deeply knowledgeable about the ethical threats generated by today’s digital and virtual technologies.  Stuart is also a fantastic and very practical legal writing instructor.  The SC Bar CLE Division is proud to offer you a unique opportunity to gain important insights into how you can protect yourself and your law license from the ethical traps that these new technologies pose, while also learning how to be a better, more effective, and more efficient written communicator with clients, the court, and opposing counsel.

 

If you want practical ethics and legal writing content from one of the nation’s leading and most entertaining CLE speakers, this is the program for you!

 

Seminar Agenda
Welcome and Opening Remarks 

Chat GPT, Siri, and Alexa are Out to Get You
Stuart Teicher
AI is coming for lawyers, and Chat GPT is leading the way.  Alexa isn’t too far behind…and so are deep fakes and the metaverse, too Join the “CLE Performer.” Stuart Teicher, Esq., as he explores the never-ending problems with the hottest technologies out there. In this program, Mr. Teicher will…

 

·         teach about the software itself — Chat GPT is a Large Language Model, and he’ll explain what that means for lawyers (Competence, Rule 1.1.)

·         reveal the ethical hotspots like confidentiality, safeguarding client property, and supervision.

·         explore the problems with the “reasonable expectation of privacy” standard.

·         discuss the dangers with those other technologies as well.

 

Fluff is for Pillows, Not Legal Writing: Surgical Strike
Lawyers have been passing bad writing habits down from generation to generation. In this 3-hour legal writing program, Stuart Teicher (the “CLE Performer”) teaches a new, more concise way of persuasive legal writing. Stuart Teicher, Esq., explains that the new paradigm for legal writing is what he calls the “Surgical Strike.”  He explains how lawyers can make their writings clear, concise, and direct by using Plain English.

 

Fluff is for Pillow, Not Legal Writing: The Anatomy of Persuasive Writing
In this hour Teicher explains the essential elements that every legal writing must contain. He sets forth the proper overall structure for a document, as well as a stop-by-step process for an effective persuasive paragraph.

 

Fluff is for Pillows, Not Legal Writing: Get Down with the Details
In this hour Stuart teaches about the technicalities of sentence structure, and his "Short writing" method for reducing long sentences. If time permits, you’ll get the skinny on "the only punctuation you'll ever need to know.”

 

Adjourn

 

Mandatory MCLE Credit Hours
This seminar qualifies for 6.0 MCLE credit hours, including up to 3.0 LEPR credit hours.

 

This is an Intermediate Level Program.

 

Note: When submitting your compliance reports to the SC Commission on CLE and Specialization, if you completed this in 2024, please use this course code: 241638ADO.

 

Tags Legal Writing; Ethics/Professional Responsibility; Technology; Big Ticket