Brooklyn Bar Association teams with NYS Academy of Trial Lawyers for ethics CLE
The Brooklyn Bar Association hosted a continuing legal education seminar on ethics in conjunction with the NYS Academy of Trial Lawyers titled “Raising the Bar: Creating an Ethical and Inclusive Workplace” in Brooklyn Heights last Wednesday.
The CLE included ethics attorneys Michael Ross and Kaylin Whittingham, who led a discussion on the intersection of ethics and diversity in the law office. The two-hour course was worth one Ethics credit and one Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias credit.
“Michael and Kaylinn present this CLE all over the state,” said Michelle Stern, the executive director of the NYS Academy of Trial Lawyers. “She is the founder and managing attorney at Whittingham Law, a legal ethics and professional responsibility firm. Among her many accolades, she is a past president of the Association of Black Women Attorneys, and she is chair of the NYC Bar Association’s Committee on Professional Discipline.