Norms of Civility in the Legal Profession
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About
This Course
This course will discuss how to maximize a productive, non-toxic working environment, whether the work is in person, from home, or in a mix. It will discuss some of the most common triggers of incivility and how cognitive errors can increase the odds of a not-civil response, and it will suggest ways to remind ourselves when we are tempted to respond in unproductive ways. If you have ever been frustrated by the way that a colleague or opposing counsel is speaking to you, this course might help you to understand how to internalize, address, and manage it.
Learning Objectives:
- Analyze the common provisions in state bar creeds of civility
- Discover what might make a client or another attorney respond in an uncivil way to a triggering situation
- Investigate the common coping mechanisms to help prevent an unnecessarily uncivil response
About the Presenters
Nancy Rapoport, Esq.
William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada
Practice Area: Ethics (+ 3 other areas)
Nancy B. Rapoport is a UNLV Distinguished Professor, the Garman Turner Gordon Professor of Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and an Affiliate Professor of Business Law and Ethics in the Lee Business School at UNLV. After receiving her B.A., summa cum laude, from Rice University in 1982 and her J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1985, she clerked for the Honorable Joseph T. Sneed III on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and then practiced law (primarily bankruptcy law) with Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco from ...
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