Stein Center Upcoming Events• Plans are underway for a Symposium at Fordham Law School on The Economic Downturn and The Legal Profession on October 16, 2009. The Symposium is a collaboration between the Stein Center, The Fordham Law Review and the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. The purpose of the symposium is to investigate the impact of the recent economic meltdown on the legal profession and its role in society. Lines of inquiry include the consequences of the crisis for members of the bar as economic, social and political actors, their roles as service providers, lawyer-statesmen and public citizens and their responsibilities to paying and non-paying clients as well as to non-clients and the public interest. The essays arising out of the Symposium will be published by the Fordham Law Review. • Professor Bruce Green and Jessi Tamayo will be co-chairs of a December 22, 2009 Practicing Law Institute CLE training on Ethical Issues in Pro Bono Representation. Also participating in the training will be Michael Scherz from Lawyers for Children, Madeleine Schaecter, pro bono counsel at Baker and McKenzie, Professor Martin Guggenheim from NYU and Janet Sabel from the Legal Aid Society. The training will focus on relevant issues relating to Attorney-Client Relationship; Beginning and Ending the Relationship and Determining the Scope of Representation; Who is the Client?; Client Misconduct, and other common ethical issues faced in pro bono representation.
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