Appellate Lawyers Association Judicial Ethics online seminar set for April 13

The Appellate Lawyers Association will present a Zoom seminar this Thursday, April 13, from noon to 1:00 p.m. on the new Code of Judicial Code Conduct that became effective for all Illinois judges on January 1.

The ALA says that the program "will highlight important changes in the new Code and discuss the judicial ethics provisions that are of greatest interest to lawyers." The program will feature a panel of three Appellate Court justices, all of whom serve on the Illinois Judicial Ethics Committee, Justices Eugene G. Doherty (4th Dist.), Michael B. Hyman (1st Dist.), and Ann B. Jorgensen (2nd Dist.). Steven F. Pflaum, the Chair of the Illinois Judicial Ethics Committee (and a former ALA president), will serve as moderator.

Attendees will be able to receive one hour of Professional Responsibility MCLE Credit. The cost is $25 for nonmembers (ALA members can attend for free). A Zoom link will be provided upon registration. Registration may be accomplished via this link.

Of course, if you don't want to plow through the new 56-page code, you can take the entirely unpatented FWIW short, short course in judicial ethics (which happens to be the same course for legal ethics, too): If you have to stop to consider whether a proposed course of action may violate some ethical rule, perhaps you should stop considering that proposed course of action. But there's no CLE credit in that.