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Bar News - May 18, 2001 Section News National Speaker Addresses Ethics in ADR THE NH BAR’S Alternative Dispute Resolution Section will offer a program on June 14 featuring Georgetown professor and legal ethics expert Carrie Menkel-Meadow. Menkel-Meadow is a professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center and chair of the CPR-Georgetown Commission on Ethics and Standards in ADR. She served as one of the drafters of the CPR-Georgetown Proposed Model Rule of Professional Conduct for the Lawyer as Third Party Neutral, an ethical rule governing lawyer-neutrals. The draft model rule will be submitted to the American Bar Association’s Ethics 2000 Commission, which is considering changes to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct and state ethics rules. According to Menkel-Meadow and fellow drafter Elizabeth Plapinger, the model rule their commission has proposed "bars a lawyer serving as a third-party neutral from simultaneously entering into a representative, neutral or other relationship with a party, counsel or entity involved in that ADR process, unless all parties consent after full disclosure." Menkel-Meadow will be discussing the proposed rule governing lawyer-neutrals, as well as other ethics matters pertaining to ADR, when she addresses the NH Bar’s ADR Section on June 14. Peter Y. Wolfe, chair of the ADR section, said that the program will provide attorneys the opportunity to gain a greater understanding of how this and other rules proposed by the Ethics Commission will impact their mediation practice. The ADR Section meeting will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Rich Room at Franklin Pierce Law Center and is open to both section members and other interested parties, free of charge. Wolfe has applied for 2 hours CLE credit for the program. He encourages anyone interested in ADR to attend. "It’s something for everybody in the Bar who’s involved as a mediator or who is just interested in mediation and the practice of law," Wolfe said. IP Section Holds Workshop ABOUT 40 PEOPLE attended a May 5 workshop on protecting ideas and trademarks presented as a public service by the Bar’s Intellectual Property Law Section. The all-day workshop, offered at no charge to students and section members and at a low cost to the public, was held at Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord. Speakers included IP Section Chair Scott Asmus, Vernon Maine, Douglas G. Verge, Todd Sullivan, Glen M. Secor and Law Center faculty member William Murphy. Richard Apley, of the US Patent & Trademark Office, and Donald G. Kelly, of the Academy of Applied Sciences, of Concord, also presented.
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