Unpack ethics rules essential for navigating external pressure on the legal profession. Discover how an independent bar safeguards due process and the rule of law, from Adams to today.
This ethics program looks at the 2025 Executive Orders against lawyers and law firms, and assesses the ethics rules implicated. From the duty of loyalty, to conflicts of interests, to questions of waivable conflicts, to the role of zealous advocacy, and the ethics underpinnings for representing the unpopular, this program lets you explore the key ethics rules and see how they coalesce to form an ethics grounding for the idea of an independent bar. Is it under assault? Tracing history from John Adams representing the British soldiers for killing colonialists to Cold War lawyer Telford Taylor defending communists, this ethics program puts into context the ethics rules that are implicated in our current environment.
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Founding Partner at One, LLP
Peter Afrasiabi is a founding partner at One LLP and focuses his practice on copyright, patent, trademark, and entertainment litigation. In addition, Peter is a professor and the Director of the Appellate Clinic at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Peter graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.
