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Event Information
Words Matter Even If They Are Not Yours
February 22, 2024
Credits
N/A
MCLE: 6.00
Ethics: 3.00
Pricing
Dates
Thursday, February 22, 2024Time
8:55 AM - 4:45 PMRegistration Deadline
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
For information and registration for the Live Webinar (non-live hours) for this program, please click here.
Walk-In Registration Fee:
An additional walk-in
registration fee of $50 will be applied to registrations the day of the program
upon arrival at the registration site. This fee is intended to cover the
additional administrative costs associated with on-site registrations.
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!
This seminar is an intermediate level program.
This program qualifies for ……6.0 MCLE; 3.0 LEPR
SC Supreme Commission on CLE Course #: 241637
The South Carolina Bar is an accredited CLE provider in South Carolina only. Attorneys are responsible for seeking their own credit in other jurisdictions.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in CLE programs and publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the South Carolina Bar, its sections, or committees. The South Carolina Bar believes that all Bar members have the right to both meaningful learning and to the exchange of ideas in a civil environment. The Bar reserves the right to remove or exclude any person from a Bar event if that person is causing inappropriate disturbance, behaving in a manner inconsistent with accepted standards of decorum, or in any way preventing fellow Bar members from meaningful participation and learning.
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Policy
Walk-In Registration Fee:
An additional walk-in
registration fee of $50 will be applied to registrations the day of the program
upon arrival at the registration site. This fee is intended to cover the
additional administrative costs associated with on-site registrations.
Need to cancel or transfer your registration? Simply notify us in writing no later than 24 hours prior to the published start time of the seminar at registrar@scbar.org. You will be eligible to receive a full refund, be transferred to the live webcast or archived on-demand version of the same seminar, if available, or to a live or archived seminar of equal or lesser value. If you need to cancel within 24 hours of the start time of a program, you are eligible to take the program in its archived, on-demand format, if available. Neither transfers to the live webcast, nor refunds will be issued for cancellations made within 24 hours of a seminar start time.
Continuing Education
Agenda
8:30 a.m.
Registration
Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 a.m.
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.
Break
Chat GPT, Siri, and Alexa are Out to Get You (Continued)
Lunch Break
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 a
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.
Break
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