The clinic provides a rich opportunity for students to learn how to establish and maintain effectively an attorney - client relationship, and develop a
sense of professional responsibility.
He also has acted as Special Counsel to the Grievance Committee of the U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut, and has served as director of the national Association
of Professional Responsibility Lawyers and was a member of the Connecticut Bar Association's Task Force on the Certification of In House Counsel.
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Rule 795 (d)(11) still offers the potential for mentees and mentors to receive six
hours of professional responsibility CLE credit during their two - year reporting period of completion so long as the Commission on Professionalism pre-approves the year - long program.
Each incubatee has been matched with an alumni or clinical faculty mentor, and both the incubatee and the mentor, upon satisfying the program requirements, will receive a total of six hours
of professional responsibility CLE credit.
Mr. Harris currently serves as a member of the State Bar Professional Discipline Committee, and is a past
Chair of the Professional Responsibility Committee of the New York City Bar Association, among other significant bar committee posts.
The rules, which went into effect on Feb. 1, 2007, and are codified in New York's Code
of Professional Responsibility at 22 NYCRR § 1200, were adopted by the four state Appellate Divisions and challenged by Alexander & Catalano, a Syracuse - based personal injury firm, as well as Public Citizen Inc..
Robert Amsterdam, an international human rights lawyer representing Kim Dotcom, said he was calling on the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, as well as the Office
of Professional Responsibility of the U.S. Department of Justice, to open an investigation into how the Megaupload prosecution was handled by the U.S. Department of Justice.
While this would not address the root causes of discrimination against women, it carries the potential to simultaneously entrench equality into the rules
of professional responsibility as well as alleviate adverse discrimination by increasing women's access to civil justice.