Description:
The State Bar civility guidelines are aspirational, but in
this program Peter Afrasiabi walks through how hewing to civility can actually
improve our success as advocates. Watch lawyers and clients fighting, literally
almost coming to blows, yelling, threatening, and all manner of behavior, with
appearances by Bieber to Lil Wayne no less, this program gets you the
specialized credit you need without preaching virtues to you, and instead by
demonstrating how principles of positive advocacy—objectivity, credibility,
respect—actually sit beneath the civility guideposts letting you be a better
advocate.
Speaker:
Peter Afrasiabi, Partner, One LLP, Newport Beach, CA
Peter is a founding partner at One, LLP, and focuses his practice on copyright, patent, trademark and entertainment litigation. In addition, he is a professor and the Director of the Appellate Clinic at University of California, Irvine School of Law. Peter graduated from University of California, Los Angeles and University of Southern California Gould School of Law.