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This all-day seminar focuses on ethics issues that arise in civil litigation and provides opportunities for interaction to discuss current ethics concerns that lawyers may face.

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The Weekly Job Group offers strategy and support to unemployed or dissatisfied attorneys. This fall's Group begins Sept. 5 and meets on seven consecutive Thursdays.

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September's Legal Lunchbox is a free workshop for building collaborative relationships and creating an atmosphere of successful collaboration among people of different generations with differing values.

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