On December 2, 2024 at 2:30PM PT, we will host an activity approved by the California State Bar for 1 MCLE credit in Ethics. 

Sustainable Economies Law Center attorneys and legal workers strive towards collaboration with our clients and consider them more like partners, collaborators, or co-conspirators in our work towards democratizing the law. But there are often ethical questions that come up for us as legal workers when our clients push us to think outside the box.

In this webinar, we invite long term clients Homefulness and Sawalmem, to share how working with us — movement lawyers who follow the clients' lead with regard to legal needs — has been. Also, we will have the Law Center attorneys present on the ethical lessons they've learned through this approach.

Some questions and topics we might explore during this MCLE:

✅ Conflicts of interest and the rules around representing multiple clients working with each other
✅ How do we know if we are zealously advocating for the client’s needs vs. prioritizing important relationships between our clients and their partners?
✅ How do we know if we are competent to handle certain topics? How do we handle situations where our clients need help and we don’t know how to help?
✅ How do we discuss various risks our clients face, without stifling their creativity or crushing their visionary projects?
✅ How do we listen to and internalize what our clients teach us about how ridiculous and harmful our legal system is?
✅ How do we then think creatively about how to be responsive to what our clients teach us?

This activity is approved by the California State Bar for 1 MCLE credit in ethics.