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Welcome to the Web Page of the Fourteenth Judicial District Bar, the mandatory bar organization for attorneys who live or work in Durham County, North Carolina. This is also the Page for the Durham County Bar Association (DCBA), the voluntary organization for attorneys in Durham County, and the Durham Bar Foundation.
TO PAY DUES ONLINE
Please proceed to the payment form, where you may log in with your NC State Bar Number as both your user name and password.
FEBRUARY ISSUE - The Durham Docket
Click HERE for the current (February 2012) issue of The Durham Docket.
FEBRUARY VOLUNTARY BAR EVENT
The FEBRUARY DCBA luncheon will be Wednesday, February 8, 2012, at Hope Valley Country Club, at 12:30.
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The February DCBA Luncheon and 1-Hour CLE will feature an ethics & professional responsibility roundtable discussion, directed by Duke Law Professor Theresa Newman.
The “problem” that will be presented includes all sorts of interesting and drama-filled details: a Caribbean cruise, an engagement, a domestic dispute involving a kitchen sponge, fast fingers on Facebook, text messaging during court about the current case, accusations of attorney solicitation and unethical payoffs, and a few remarkable quotes, including this from one of our main characters, “I took trial ad in law school; I'll be fine.”
Your charge, along with those at your luncheon table, will be to evaluate the facts related to several ethical questions, and determine which, if any, of the rules provided to you are appropriate to the situation. Those with a flair for drama may choose to volunteer their tables’ solutions with the group.
The materials will be emailed out on Friday, February 3, along with the regular monthly e-mailing to the members of the Fourteenth and DCBA. You may also download the 14-page packet from the bold blue link in the above paragraph, or by clicking here: https://dcoba.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/durham%20bar%20ethics%20roundtable%20cle%20materials.pdf .
Professor Newman is co-director of the Wrongful Convictions Clinic, associate director of the Duke Law School Center for Criminal Justice and Professional Responsibility, and faculty adviser to the student-led Innocence Project. She was associate dean for academic affairs from 1999-2008, director of the Legal Writing Program from 1994-1999, and general editor of Law and Contemporary Problems from 1990-2001. Courses she has taught recently include such titles as, “Ethics and the Law of Lawyering,” and “Criminal Justice Ethics.”
We are delighted to have Professor Newman with us for this special event.
DCBA Luncheons are open to DCBA members who have paid dues for 2011-2012, or will pay at the door. Dues are $100, or $50 for those who were licensed first in 2011. You may also now pay online with a credit card, at the link provided at the top left of this news article (in bold blue text). Members who are unable to log in can download, complete and return the membership form, available HERE. It can be emailed to
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or faxed to 919-680-0108.
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