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Criminal Bar Association updates members on ethics

March 14, 2016 By Rob Abruzzese Brooklyn Eagle
Michael Farkas (left), president of the Kings County Criminal Bar Association, and Arthur Aidala (right), president of the Brooklyn Bar Association, welcome Michael S. Ross to 123 Remsen St. for a Continuing Legal Education lecture on ethics for the criminal law practitioner. Eagle photos by Rob Abruzzese
Michael Farkas (left), president of the Kings County Criminal Bar Association, and Arthur Aidala (right), president of the Brooklyn Bar Association, welcome Michael S. Ross to 123 Remsen St. for a Continuing Legal Education lecture on ethics for the criminal law practitioner. Eagle photos by Rob Abruzzese
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Attorney Michael S. Ross presented a Continuing Legal Education (CLE) lecture titled “2016 Ethics Update for Criminal Law Practitioners” at the Kings County Criminal Bar Association (KCCBA) meeting held on Remsen Street in Brooklyn Heights last Thursday.

“We are lucky today because Michael Ross is the foremost expert in New York state on ethics,” said Michael Farkas, president of the KCCBA. “He was in the Kings County [District Attorney’s] Office in the 1970s as an assistant district attorney, then he was an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District, and a professor at Cardozo Law School, the Brooklyn Law School and a member of countless bar associations.”

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Ross has presented similar CLE seminars to the KCCBA in the past, and comes back with updates every two years.

“It’s a real blast for me to give CLEs here,” Ross said. “A lot of these people I know from when [they] were law students, some are contemporaries and some I have always looked up to, so it’s very humbling to be here.”

Because Ross holds many of the KCCBA members in such high regard, he said that it is difficult to come up with new material on ethics that they don’t already know.

“What do you tell people who have been around a long time? What could I possibly tell you that you don’t know about ethics? Because most of you have a very good idea about ethics,” Ross asked rhetorically. “What I can do, is I can talk about things that are changing.”

In his speech, Ross used recent court decisions, bar association opinions and articles to discuss changes in ethics laws involving attorney-client issues, conflicts of interest, disqualification issues and legal fees, among others.

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The KCCBA Annual Dinner Dance is coming up on Saturday, April 16 at Giando on the Water. Honorees include Hon. Danny Chun, Samuel Gregory, Maritza Mejia-Ming and Senior Court Clerk Michael LaRose. Visit http://www.kccba.org/ for more info on the dinner-dance.

 


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