Details

Meeting Site: Boyd Law Building is at the corner of Melrose Avenue and Byington in Iowa City, Iowa.

Registration: The program is free of charge but registration is required. Go to law.uiowa.edu/cle to register online or return the registration portion of this brochure to:

Janey PiersallIowa Law280 Boyd Law BuildingIowa City, IA 52242

Parking: Public Parking is available for a fee near the College of Law at the corner of Melrose Avenue and S. Grand. Maps are available by request.

Mandatory Continuing Legal Education: The ethics program is approved for 2.0 hours of CLE credit (2.0 Ethics). The Activity ID Number is #96075. Direct questions to Janey-Piersall@uiowa.edu.

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact Janey Piersall in advance at 319.335.9158.

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Ethics CLEFriday, October 9, 2015

Schedule Friday, October 9, 2015

2-2:30

Registration/Check-In

2:30-3:30

Prof. Emily Hughes

“Ethics Update”

3:30-4:30

Prof. Stephen Sieberson (‘75)

“Taking Professionalism to New Heights –

Mountaineering Lessons for the Practice of Law”

Our SpeakersEMILY HUGHES is the Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs and Professor and Bouma Fellow in Law at the University of Iowa. She co-authored the legal ethics book, The Law and Ethics of Law Practice (West 2014).

Before joining Iowa College of Law, Professor Hughes was a professor at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, where she taught criminal law, criminal procedure (investigations & adjudication), and a seminar discussing mitigation and the death penalty.

While at Washington University, Professor Hughes also co-directed the Criminal Justice Clinic, where she supervised law students representing indigent clients facing felony charges in Saint Louis County. Prior to joining the faculty at Washington University, Professor Hughes was Associate Director of the Center for Justice in Capital Cases at DePaul University College of Law, where she worked in the legal clinic representing indigent clients on capital cases. Professor Hughes’s

includes working as a public defender for the Office of the Iowa State Public Defender in Iowa City, where she represented juveniles and adults on misdemeanor and felony charges. She also worked as a Sacks Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Criminal Justice Institute, working with clinical law students in Roxbury and Dorchester representing juvenile and adult clients on misdemeanor and felony charges.

Professor Hughes clerked for the Honorable Michael J. Melloy, then Chief Judge of the Northern District of Iowa (now with the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals).

STEPHEN C. SIEBERSON, J.D., Ph.D. is a Professor of Law at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.

Prior to entering into his full time academic career, Professor Sieberson practiced international business law for 25 years in

Seattle, also spending two years as an in-house legal adviser at a major bank in the Netherlands. His practice involved international financing and other transactions in Europe, Asia, and South America. From 1987 to 2003, he served as honorary consul of the Netherlands for the states of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, including a three-year period when he led Seattle’s consular community as president of the Consular Association of Washington. During his practice years, he was never far from the classroom, and he regularly taught international and comparative law courses as an adjunct professor in the United States and abroad.

In addition to his work in international law, Professor Sieberson is actively involved in the field of legal ethics. Besides teaching professional responsibility to second-year law students, he organizes ethics seminars for the Omaha Bar Association, and he serves as an expert witness in cases of legal malpractice.

At Creighton, Professor Sieberson is faculty adviser to the Asian Law Students Association, the Gay/Straight Law Alliance, and the Law School Democrats. He has also served as a law school representative on a number of university-wide committees.

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