8:55 Welcome and Introductions
9:00 The Attorney-Client Relationship*
Troy G. Crawford, LM Title Agency LLC, Cary
Mark A. Scruggs, Lawyers Mutual Liability Insurance Company, Cary
Begin the day with information on how to best manage the attorney-client relationship from a team of experts who share tips that lead to success and the pitfalls to avoid. Learn about client creation and termination, fees and billing, duties of diligence of communication, and the attorney-client privilege and confidentially.
10:00 Break
10:10 Ethics and Grievance Committees*
Dauna L. Bartley, The Brocker Law Firm PA, Raleigh
Douglas J. "Doug" Brocker, The Brocker Law Firm PA, Raleigh
Understand the committees' processes and results and gain insight into statistics on the most frequent grievances.
11:10 Break
11:20 Pro Bono Service in North Carolina*
Kim Bart Mullikin, North Carolina Bar Foundation, Cary
Understand Rule 6.1 and your obligation for pro bono service, then learn how to get involved through your local and state bar associations to give back to the community.
12:20 Lunch Break
1:00 Welcome Message
Kristen M. Kirby, 2020-2021 Young Lawyer Division Chair, McGuireWoods LLP, Raleigh
1:05 How to Win in Trust Account Management*
Leanor D. B. Hodge, North Carolina State Bar, Raleigh
Whether you manage your own trust account or are in a firm where someone else handles it, you need to know how to manage it correctly. In this informative session, all aspects of the trust account are discussed. Topics include Rule 1.15, record-keeping, a trust account versus an operating account, personal injury settlements, real estate transactions and the random audit program.
2:05 Break
2:15 Financial Planning Strategies*
Patrick Yanke, Yanke Financial, Raleigh
Learn key strategies that focus on managing undergraduate and law school debt when starting out, along with ways to plan for the future.
3:15 Break
3:25 A View From the Bench: Cases and Examples of Professionalism and the Challenges of Being a New Lawyer*
Chief Judge Linda M. McGee, North Carolina Court of Appeals, Raleigh
Judge Paul C. Ridgeway, North Carolina Superior Court, Raleigh
Hear cases and examples of professionalism from a diverse, experienced panel of North Carolina judges considered to be role models of professionalism and moral decision-making.
4:20 Professionalism Insight and Voluntary Oath
Judge Paul C. Ridgeway, North Carolina Superior Court, Raleigh
4:25 Adjourn
*Indicates portion providing Ethics/Professional Responsibility credit
Thank you for joining us for Professionalism for New Attorneys (PNA)!
The North Carolina Bar Association is your home for the best continuing legal education, professional development and networking. As a first-year attorney at PNA, the NCBA welcomes you into the profession.
Kim Bart Mullikin is Senior Director of the North Carolina Bar Foundation, where she oversees pro bono and public service programs, the Endowment, and development efforts.
Prior to working with the NCBF, Kim served as the assistant dean of public interest and pro bono and director of the externship program at Duke University School of Law, where she is an alumna. Kim worked as an assistant professor and director of the Domestic Violence Law Clinic at the University of Alabama School of Law, and as a teaching fellow in the Federal Legislation Clinic at the Georgetown University Law Center. Kim began her career as an associate with Crowell & Moring LLP in Washington D.C.
Kim received her LL.M. in advocacy from Georgetown University, her law degree with a graduate certification in women's studies from Duke University, her M.P.A. from Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship, and her B.A. in women's studies from Syracuse University.
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Dauna L. Bartley is a practicing attorney at The Brocker Law Firm PA in Raleigh, NC. She represents clients before various licensing boards and administrative agencies, counsels clients on ethics and disciplinary matters, and provides general compliance counseling.
Prior to joining The Brocker Law Firm, Dauna practiced in civil litigation with the law firms of Moore & Van Allen PLLC in Morrisville and Ellis & Winters LLP in Raleigh. She then served as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer for Sessoms & Rogers PA in Durham.
Dauna is certified by the North Carolina Dispute Resolution Commission to conduct superior court mediations. She currently serves as the co-chair of the Ethics Committee for the North Carolina Bar Association's Administrative Law Section, and on the CLE Committee of the Wake County Bar Association.
Dauna graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania with a B.A. in Communication and Theatre Arts, and a M.A. in Rhetoric and Communication. She worked for nearly a decade as a human resources/recruitment professional, during which time she and her family relocated to the Triangle area. She then pursued a career in law and graduated, with high honors, from the University of North Carolina School of Law. During law school, Dauna completed an externship with the Honorable Magistrate Judge Wallace W. Dixon in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, and served as Publication Editor for the North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology.
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Douglas J. "Doug" Brocker is a principal of The Brocker Law Firm PA, a Raleigh firm that concentrates in professional and occupational licensing, ethics, and disciplinary matters. Doug represents various professionals before their respective licensing boards and administrative agencies, including representing attorneys before the State Bar. He serves as outside counsel to the N.C. Board of Dental Examiners on a wide variety of legal issues, investigations, and disciplinary prosecutions. Doug also has served as special outside counsel to other professional licensing boards in disciplinary investigations and prosecutions.
Doug previously served as Trial and UPL Counsel for The North Carolina State Bar. Doug periodically provides consultation and testimony as an expert witness in matters involving professional services. Following a judicial clerkship with U.S. District Court Judge Franklin T. Dupree, Jr., Doug worked at Jenner & Block in Chicago, Everett Gaskins Hancock & Stevens, and was a partner in Milberg Gordon Stewart PLLC in Raleigh.
Doug earned a B.A. from the University of Rochester and a J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law.
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Troy G. Crawford is Managing Counsel for LM Title Agency, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lawyers Mutual serving attorneys throughout North Carolina. Prior to heading the title agency, he worked for Lawyers Mutual as Claims Counsel, focusing primarily on real estate, fraud and technology related claims. In that role, Troy routinely taught CLEs and other professional education programs for national, statewide and local organizations, including recent engagements in Hawaii, Chicago and New Orleans.
Before joining Lawyers Mutual, he worked at Investors Title as a Claims and Subrogation Counsel. Troy began his career with a small Garner, NC law firm where his practice concentrated in commercial and residential real estate transactions and litigation involving real property.
Troy attended NC State University, graduating with honors in Civil Engineering. He received his JD, also with honors, from Campbell University.
Outside of work, Troy enjoys hiking, working in his garden and enjoying seeing his three children experience life. His wife, Jennifer, is also a licensed attorney. Contact Troy directly at 919-585-1182 or troy@lmtitle.com.
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Leanor Bailey Hodge is a Deputy Counsel with the North Carolina State Bar in Raleigh. She counsels the NCSB's Grievance Committee and prosecuting lawyers for ethics violations before the Disciplinary Hearing Commission.
Prior to joining the NCSB in 2008, Leanor was a litigation partner at the law firm of Manning Fulton & Skinner PA in Raleigh, and a prosecutor in Philadelphia and Chicago. Leanor frequently lectures for the Mecklenburg County Bar on ethical and professional topics.
Leanor received her B.B.A. from Howard University and her J.D. from Temple University.
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Kristen M. Kirby is a partner at McGuireWoods LLP in Raleigh. Her practice focuses on public finance transactions. She has served as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, bank counsel, and borrower’s counsel for a variety of tax-exempt transactions, including multifamily housing revenue bonds, 501(c)(3) bonds for colleges, universities, schools, including charter schools, and other nonprofits, private activity bonds, and industrial development bonds.
Kristen is a 2009 cum laude graduate of Wake Forest University School of Law. She is the current chair of the Young Lawyers Division of the North Carolina Bar Association. She is also an executive committee member of North Carolina Bar Association Board of Governors and member of the North Carolina Bar Foundation, Board of Directors.
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Chief Judge Linda M. McGee has served as a judge on the N.C. Court of Appeals for the past 24 years and was named Chief Judge in August 2014. She is the longest-serving woman judge in the court’s history and the second woman to serve as Chief Judge.
Judge McGee received both her undergraduate and law degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and began her career serving as the first executive director of the N.C. Academy of Trial Lawyers. She later joined the law firm of di Santi, Watson and McGee in Boone, and practiced there for 17 years before being appointed to the court by Governor James B. Hunt, Jr. in 1995. Judge McGee has had three successful statewide judicial campaigns: 1996, 2004 and 2012.
She has been actively involved in the North Carolina Bar Association throughout her career and has served on many committees either as a member or as chair. Judge McGee most recently received the 2017 Liberty Bell Award from the Young Lawyers Division of the N.C. Bar Association and she has also received the N.C. Bar Association Pro Bono Service Award. Judge McGee was named Judge of the Year Award and received the Gwyneth B. Davis Service Award from the N.C. Association of Women Attorneys, where she was a founding member. She also received the Outstanding Appellate Judge Award from the N.C. Advocates for Justice. Judge McGee was a longtime member of the Chief Justice’s Equal Access to Justice Commission, served on the Chief Justice’s Commission on the Administration of Law and Justice, the Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism, and the N.C. Board of Law Examiners.
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Judge Paul C. Ridgeway is Senior Resident Superior Court Judge of the 10th Judicial District (Wake County), North Carolina. He has served as a Superior Court Judge since 2007.
Judge Ridgeway received his B.S. and M.P.A. from North Carolina State University, and his J.D. from Campbell School of Law, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the law review. Following law school, Judge Ridgeway received a post-graduate degree from the University of Amsterdam in the law of the European Community.
Prior to becoming a judge in 2007, Judge Ridgeway was engaged in the private practice of law for 20 years, primarily in the fields of commercial litigation and transactions. Judge Ridgeway has served as President of the Wake County Bar Association and as a Vice President of the NCBA.
For 25 years, Judge Ridgeway has also been an adjunct professor of law at Campbell School of Law, where he teaches seminars in International Litigation and Law & Public Policy.
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Mark A. Scruggs is a Senior Claims Counsel with Lawyers Mutual. He joined Lawyers Mutual in March 2001 as claims counsel.
Formerly a partner with Spear Barnes Baker Wainio & Scruggs LLP in Durham, Mark has over 14 years' experience as a trial attorney concentrating in insurance defense litigation. For the last 15 years, he has worked with Lawyers Mutual primarily in litigation-related claims and workers compensation and family law matters.
Mark is a past chair of the Law Practice Management section of the North Carolina Bar Association. He has served as an Advisory Member of the State Bar Ethics Committee and is currently serving as an Advisory Member of the Authorized Practice Committee of the North Carolina State Bar. He also serves as c-chair of the North Carolina Bar Association's "Transitioning Lawyers Commission" working to address issues facing aging lawyers.
Mark is a 1986 cum laude graduate of Campbell University School of Law.
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Patrick H. Yanke is a CFP and Branch Manager at Yanke Financial in Raleigh. He sees himself as a problem solver and his business is entirely based on relationships with the people he serves and his best relationships come from solving problems for people.
Patrick started his professional life in Army Basic Training at Ft Knox, KY. This was the first step on a journey through Marion Military Institute and the US Air Force Academy to being commissioned an officer in the USAF. He served in five major commands at five installations (including deployments to Saudi Arabia and Southern Italy) before leaving service to start a family and build a business.
Patrick is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy (where he majored in Aeronautical Engineering with a minor in Arabic) and an Air Force veteran.
Patrick started his career in financial planning a cadet at the Academy. Throughout his military tenure, he counseled his personnel on financial matters and money management. After his miltary career, he joined A.G. Edwards in 2000 in Panama City, FL. After building a strong business in Florida, in 2005 Patrick elected to move his family to Raleigh to enjoy the climate, history and culture of North Carolina.
Patrick is a past state president of the Air Force Association, current president of the Air Force Academy Society of NC, and sits on the Industry Advisory Panel for the American Public University System.
The secret of Patrick's success is as simple as the Golden Rule…treat everyone as he wants to be treated. He has been married to his wife, Grete, for over 25 years and they have four children together. They have chosen an active role in the formation of their children through homeschooling.
Patrick is active in his community through the Kiwanis Club of Raleigh, the Knights of Columbus, the Executives Club of Raleigh, and veterans organizations. He is a past state president of the Air Force Association, past president of the Raleigh Kiwanis Foundation, current president of the Air Force Academy Society of NC, serves on the Industry Advisory Panel for the American Public University System, and a regular contributor to "Attorney-at-Law" Magazine.
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A special thanks to North Carolina Bar Foundation Endowment for a grant which helps support this PNA program.
