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Get nine (9) free CLE Credits and sharpen your landlord/tenant skills -- sign up for the Housing Court Volunteer Lawyers Project

The Housing Court Volunteer Lawyers Project is offering training to attorneys interested in helping self-represented Landlord/Tenant litigants. Give them three (3) course evenings [May 5th, 12th and 19th] and they'll give you nine (9) free CLE credits in exchange for your commitment to counsel pro se litigants for 12 hours over the course of an entire year. Attorneys interested should call Verna L. Johnson, Esq., Special Assistant to Administrative Judge Fern Fisher, at 212-374-8078. A copy of the course application may be downloaded here.

Ethics, where would we be without them?

. . . . you're back with anarchy. Right back inna jungle. On account of the breakdown of ethics. That's why ethics is important. It's the grease makes us get along, what separates us from the animals, beasts a burden, beasts a prey. Ethics.
-- Johnny Caspar, Miller's Crossing (Joel and Ethan Cohen).

Legalethics.com is a site dedicated to ethical considerations for our profession. The New York State Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics has recently published a Judicial Campaign Ethics Handbook. Take a CLE class on Ethics for free courtesy of the New York State Bar Association. Click here for details.

Get two free CLE credits and qualify to sit as an arbitrator for the Small Claims Parts of the Civil Court of the City of New York . . .

Once again, the Civil Court of the City of New York is offering a free CLE program for attorneys with five or more years of admission to the New York State Bar to serve as arbitrators in the Small Claims Parts of the Court. The next session will be held on February 24, 2004, from 6 to 8 pm at the Queens County Bar Association, 90-35 148th Street, Jamaica, NY. To register, call Gail Johnson at 212-374-8175. Click here for full details.

Want to be a Small Claims Arbitrator?

If so, contact Gail Johnson at the NYC Civil Court at 212-374-8175. The next training program, scheduled for Jan. 15, 2004 ( 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.) at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, prepares and certifies attorneys to become pro-bono arbitrators in the Small Claims Parts of the New York City Civil Court in all five boroughs. Participants must have a minimum of five years admitted to the New York Bar in order to be eligible.

Starting Jan. 1, 2004, the Small Claims Parts now hear claims for up to $5,000.

. . . CLE Credit Online for Free at Lawline.com . . .

Lawline.com offers CLE credit online for $25 a credit. To entice users to its site, it is offering a free one credit course - "How to Cross Examine Taped Evidence" - by noted attorney Ben Brafman. Along with the online video lectures, the course offers a printed transcript as well as links to related sites for each lecture topic.