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Maybe Its None Of My Business...But??? - The Vagaries of Legal Counseling
On September 6th 2007, the Institute of American and Talmudic Law (IAT Law) will host a Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Seminar entitled 'The Vagaries of Legal Counseling,' which will include the Bible's perspective on this high-profile issue.
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August 28, 2007 (FPRC) -- As most people know, few questions are more difficult for an insightful lawyer than determining one’s proper role as legal counselor. What the law “is” and what one’s ethical constraints are, are more easily resolved than dealing with “how shall I advise?” “How much of my personal values do I have a right to intrude into the client’s decision-making process?”, and “how strongly shall I assert those values?” are omnipresent quandaries thoughtful lawyers face daily. Some lawyers see themselves as psychotherapists, others as technicians. Most of us fall between the two labels with the emphasis varying at different places along the spectrum and at different times.
This seminar will explore what constraints and obligations Talmudic law places on an Attorney who is functioning within the secular legal system yet desires to adhere to Jewish law and ethics. Plus, it will ask what the Talmudic Legal view is concerning the obligations and responsibilities of a rabbinic authority when approached with a Shaalah (Law Query), particularly in a case where there may be antagonistic parties.
This discussion will investigate the variables and vagaries of the lawyer’s role in the counseling function. The subject is relevant to every lawyer who deals with clients.
In addition to IAT Law's Talmudic expert Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe, the program will feature Mr. Melvyn H. Bergstein Esq., who is a Certified Civil Trial Lawyer with extensive jury and non-jury trial experience in a broad range of commercial, personal injury and employment litigation. Bergstein has represented and litigated against an array of Fortune 500 corporations and individual clients in complex litigation before state and federal courts. He has also received a Certificate from the Harvard Law School for completing its program in mediation and negotiation. He has been honored by receiving the Alfred C. Clapp Award for excellence in legal education as a result of more than 30 years of state and national lecturing on topics which include "The Psychology of the Trial and the Trial Lawyer," "The Art and Craft of Conducting Depositions," and "Winning Strategies in Litigation." He has been an adjunct professor at Rutgers Law School since 1972 where he has taught various trial law courses and the Psychodynamics of Lawyering and Litigating an Employment Discrimination Case. Bergstein has served as a member of various Supreme Court committees including the Board on Trial Attorney Certification. In 1999 he was selected as Civil Trial Attorney of the Year by the Essex County Bar Association. He is past president of that association and an editor of the New Jersey Law Journal.
The seminar will be followed by a complimentary buffet dinner. Special group rates and rates for non-attorneys are available.
For more Information please contact: (212)-986-1114 or (888) 937-5060.
Send an email to Noah Heber of The Institute of American & Talmudic Law
212-972-0770
Keywords:
CLE, Continuing Legal Education, Melvyn Bergstein
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