College Mascots and Legal Ethics: Lessons from the Sidelines
It's Bowl Season! Not only will teams make their appearances, but so will their mascots. College mascots represent their schools with pride, loyalty, and unwavering standards - qualities every attorney should embody. Professional legal educator Stuart Teicher, Esq. (known as The CLE Performer) reveals how these iconic figures demonstrate core principles of legal ethics. From the tiger's protective instincts to the eagle's soaring integrity, mascots show us what it means to represent something bigger than yourself while maintaining consistent character both in the spotlight and behind the scenes.
Learning Objectives:
-Explore why fierce animals dominate college mascots and how their protective instincts mirror attorney duties to safeguard clients under RPC 1.6
-Study mascot-fan communication techniques to improve client relationship management under RPC 1.4
-Examine how mascots cheer on and motivate their teams to understand mentoring and supervisory responsibilities under RPC 5.3
-Analyze mascots' unwavering school loyalty as a model for zealous client representation duties under RPC 1.3
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER:
Stuart I. Teicher, Esq. is a professional legal educator who focuses on ethics law and writing instruction. A practicing lawyer for 30 years, Stuart’s career is now dedicated to helping fellow lawyers survive the practice of law and thrive in the profession. Mr. Teicher teaches seminars, provides in-house training to law firms and legal departments, provides CLE instruction at law firm client events, and also gives keynote speeches at conventions and association meetings.
Mr. Teicher is a Supreme Court appointee to the New Jersey District Ethics Committee where he investigates and prosecutes grievances filed against attorneys. Mr. Teicher also served on the New Jersey Office of Attorney Ethics Fee Arbitration Committee. Mr. Teicher is an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown Law where he teaches Professional Responsibility, and for 15 years he was an adjunct professor at Rutgers University in New Brunswick where he taught undergraduate writing courses. He also taught both Professional Responsibility and Legal Writing at St. John’s University School of Law in New York City.
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