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Amberg Authors ‘Los Angeles Lawyer’ 2020 Ethics Roundup
Apr 15, 2021For the past 20 years, Los Angeles Partner John W. Amberg has authored an annual article for Los Angeles Lawyer magazine that evaluates significant developments in California legal ethics during the past year. Amberg’s current ethics roundup in the April 2021 issue addresses such issues as confidentiality, attorney-client privilege, advocate-witness rules, malpractice, arbitration, fee issues and lawyers behaving badly, among other issues.
Amberg is a member of BCLP’s Commercial Dispute Resolution, Class Action and Product Liability Practices, and is chair of the firmwide Ethics Committee. He has tried and arbitrated cases throughout California and serves as an expert witness on professional liability and legal ethics matters. He is a former chair of the California State Bar’s Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct and a former chair and current member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Professional Responsibility and Ethics Committee.
Reading the article and answering the accompanying test questions earns California lawyers one hour of MCLE legal ethics credit.
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