Three UW Law School professors who have volunteered their services to assist Wisconsin attorneys in better understanding the state’s new Rules of Professional Conduct have received an enthusiastic response to their offer to provide free programs to local bar associations.

As part of the Law School’s outreach mission, Professors Ralph Cagle, Ben Kempinen, and Kenneth Streit have scheduled more than a dozen sessions for the spring season, visiting bar associations around the state to provide Continuing Legal Education Programs addressing the changes that will go into effect on July 1, 2007.

"We are still getting calls," Cagle said in late March. "I estimate that we will be doing around 25 sessions by the end of the summer."

The three professors all teach Professional Responsibilities at the Law School and were members of the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s Ethics 2000 Committee, which studied the existing rules and proposed the changes.

The professors are also planning an in-house program for UW Law School faculty, including adjunct faculty, before the end of the 2007 calendar year.

To view the complete changes that will take place in the Rules of Professional Conduct for Wisconsin Attorneys, see the State Bar of Wisconsin Web site at www.wisbar.org . (Click on Lawyer Regulation, then Lawyer Regulation & Discipline.)

At the UW Law School in addition to classroom teaching, Ralph Cagle is Director of the Lawyering Skills Program, Ben Kempinen is Director of the Prosecution Project at the Frank J. Remington Center, and Kenneth Streit is a supervising attorney at the Remington Center.

For information about scheduling a program on this topic for a bar association or other group, contact Lynne Faulkner at 608-262-8561 or lfaulkner@wisc.edu.

Submitted by on March 22, 2007

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