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Continuing Legal Education Program
InformationFREE ETHICS 2025 - The Guardian
March 21, 2025
Date(s)
Friday, March 21, 2025Time
9:00 am - 12:15 pmEarly Bird Discount Prior To:
Friday, March 21, 2025Registration Deadline
Friday, March 21, 2025Location
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2025 Free Ethics: The Guardian
Presented in partnership with ALPS
Friday, March 21, 2025
9:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Webinar
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3.0 Ethics Credits
CLE# 2025311
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Member Registration fee: FREE
Non-Member Registration fee: $95
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The
Guardian transports us to a boutique law firm that serves the legal needs of
clients in the tech sector. One of the firm’s clients has asked if a few
members of the firm would be willing to evaluate a beta version of a
cutting-edge Ethics and Risk Management AI tool called Guardian AI designed to
evaluate and enhance ethical and risk management decision-making in a variety
of industries. The firm agreed and the testing is about to begin… A panel of your peers will apply professional
conduct rules and formal ethics opinions to their analysis of the issues
presented.
Moderated by: Mark Bassingthwaighte, Esq., Risk Manager with ALPS
Panel Members: Phil Shanahan, Bar Counsel, Alaska Bar Association, Kate Demarest, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Opinions, Appeals, and Ethics, Department of Law, and Tim Petumenos, Law Office of Tim Petumenos.
Faculty:
Since 1998, Mark Bassingthwaighte, Esq. has been a Risk Manager with ALPS, the nation’s largest direct writer of lawyers’ malpractice insurance. In his tenure with the company, Mr. Bassingthwaighte has conducted over 1200 law firm risk management assessment visits, presented numerous continuing legal education seminars throughout the United States, and written extensively on risk management, ethics, and technology.
Mr. Bassingthwaighte is a member of the State Bar of Montana as well as the American Bar Association where he currently sits on the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility’s Conference Planning Committee. He received his J.D. from Drake University Law School.
Kate Demarest is a Senior Assistant Attorney General in the Opinions, Appeals, and Ethics section of the Department of Law. She spent seven years practicing general civil litigation with a strong appellate focus as a trial associate and then partner in the Anchorage office of Dorsey & Whitney before joining the Department of Law in 2017. Kate frequently supports the ethics advice functions of her section and serves on the Lawyers Fund for Client Protection bar Committee.
Phil Shanahan grew up in the Boston area and graduated from Northeastern University School of Law in 1993. He moved to Alaska shortly after graduation and practiced as a criminal defense attorney in both state and federal courts. After a few years in private practice sharing
office space with some of Anchorage’s best and brightest criminal defense and
family law attorneys, he joined the Office of Public Advocacy. In 2007 he joined a private criminal defense
firm, and opened his own criminal defense practice in 2010. He is a founding member of the Alaska
Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and served on its Board of Directors
for four years, including one year as a marginally-effective Secretary of the
Board. He began his role as Bar Counsel with the Alaska Bar Association in
December of 2019.
Tim Petumenos graduated from Tufts University in 1973 and Georgetown University Law Center in 1976. Mr. Petumenos has been involved in some of the more celebrated Alaska trials in the course of his career including the Senator George Hohman bribery cases, the McKay murder trials and was lead counsel in the state trial of the Exxon Valdez Oil spill. His practice also focused on ethics related issues. Mr. Petumenos served on Disciplinary Hearing Committees for the Bar and was appointed as Special Counsel in connection with gubernatorial ethics complaints during the Palin administration. Mr. Petumenos litigated numerous legal malpractice cases and has been qualified as an expert witness in legal malpractice cases. He is a certified teacher with the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and has taught trial advocacy on numerous occasions for the Alaska Bar Association, at the Northwest Regional Session of NITA and for prosecutorial agencies. Mr. Petumenos intends to devote much of his future practice to presiding over complex binding arbitrations.
Course Materials: A digital copy of the program materials is available 24
hours prior to the event by logging into your member dashboard at www.alaskabar.org/members. Select "My Course Materials," located under the "My Documents" header on the left side of your dashboard.
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Learn
more about ALPS: ALPS
is the Alaska Bar Association’s endorsed law firm insurance provider, founded
for lawyers by lawyers. To learn more about how ALPS can help your law firm,
visit www.alpsinsurance.com/alaska or call
1-800-367-2577.
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Video On Demand (VOD): For those unable to attend, the event will be recorded and made available on Video On Demand (VOD) approximately 5 days after the event. This ensures you can access the content at your convenience.
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Agenda
Speakers
| Name | Organization | Speaking At |
|---|---|---|
| Katherine Demarest | - | |
| Mark Bassingthwaighte | Alps Property & Casualty Insurance Company | - |
| Philip Shanahan | Alaska Bar Association | - |
| Timothy Petumenos | - |
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