Details
Ethics CLE
Meeting Site: Boyd Law Building is at the corner
of Melrose Avenue and Byington in Iowa City,
Iowa.
Friday, October 9, 2015
Registration: The program is free of charge but
registration is required. Go to
law.uiowa.edu/cle to register online or return
the registration portion of this brochure to:
Janey Piersall
Iowa Law
280 Boyd Law Building
Iowa City, IA 52242
Featured Speakers:
Author/Professor/Alumnus,
Stephen Sieberson (’75) &
Professor and Associate
Dean Emily Hughes
Parking: Public Parking is available for a fee near
the College of Law at the corner of Melrose
Avenue and S. Grand. Maps are available by
request.
Mandatory Continuing Legal Education: The
ethics program is approved for 2.0 hours of CLE
credit (2.0 Ethics). The Activity ID Number is
#96075. Direct questions to JaneyPiersall@uiowa.edu.
Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to
attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If
you are a person with a disability who requires an
accommodation in order to participate in this
program, please contact Janey Piersall in advance
at 319.335.9158.
Ethics CLE
Friday, October 9, 2015
187 Boyd Law Bldg.
Iowa City, IA 52242
The University of Iowa
College of Law
Boyd Law Building
Levitt Auditorium
Iowa City
REGISTER ONLINE AT:
law.uiowa.edu/cle
Schedule
Friday, October 9, 2015
2-2:30
2:303:30
3:304:30
Registration/
Check-In
Prof. Emily Hughes
“Ethics Update”
Prof. Stephen Sieberson (‘75)
“Taking Professionalism to New
Heights – Mountaineering Lessons
for the Practice of Law”
Our Speakers
EMILY HUGHES is the Associate
Dean for Faculty and Academic
Affairs and Professor and
Bouma Fellow in Law at the
University of Iowa. She coauthored the legal ethics book,
The Law and Ethics of Law
Practice (West 2014).
Before joining Iowa College of
Law, Professor Hughes was a professor at Washington
University in St. Louis School of Law, where she taught
criminal law, criminal procedure (investigations &
adjudication), and a seminar discussing mitigation and
the death penalty.
While at Washington University, Professor Hughes also
co-directed the Criminal Justice Clinic, where she
supervised law students representing indigent clients
facing felony charges in Saint Louis County. Prior to
joining the faculty at Washington University, Professor
Hughes was Associate Director of the Center for Justice
in Capital Cases at DePaul University College of Law,
where she worked in the legal clinic representing
indigent clients on capital cases. Professor Hughes’s
other experience
includes working as a public defender for the Office of
the Iowa State Public Defender in Iowa City, where she
represented juveniles and adults on misdemeanor and
felony charges. She also worked as a Sacks Fellow at
Harvard Law School’s Criminal Justice Institute, working
with clinical law students in Roxbury and Dorchester
representing juvenile and adult clients on misdemeanor
and felony charges.
Professor Hughes clerked for the Honorable Michael J.
Melloy, then Chief Judge of the Northern District of Iowa
(now with the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals).
STEPHEN C. SIEBERSON,
J.D., Ph.D. is a Professor of
Law at Creighton University
in Omaha, Nebraska.
Prior to entering into his full
time academic career,
Professor Sieberson
practiced international
business law for 25 years in
Seattle, also spending two years as an in-house legal
adviser at a major bank in the Netherlands. His practice
involved international financing and other transactions in
Europe, Asia, and South America. From 1987 to 2003, he
served as honorary consul of the Netherlands for the
states of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, including a
three-year period when he led Seattle’s consular
community as president of the Consular Association of
Washington. During his practice years, he was never far
from the classroom, and he regularly taught
international and comparative law courses as an adjunct
professor in the United States and abroad.
In addition to his work in international law, Professor
Sieberson is actively involved in the field of legal ethics.
Besides teaching professional responsibility to secondyear law students, he organizes ethics seminars for the
Omaha Bar Association, and he serves as an expert
witness in cases of legal malpractice.
At Creighton, Professor Sieberson is faculty adviser to
the Asian Law Students Association, the Gay/Straight
Law Alliance, and the Law School Democrats. He has also
served as a law school representative on a number of
university-wide committees.
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To register online, go to:
law.uiowa.edu/cle
To register by mail, complete this form
and mail it to: Attn: Janey
UI College of Law, 187 Boyd Law Building
Iowa City, IA 52242-1113
If you have any questions contact
Janey-Piersall@uiowa.edu
or call 319.335.9158