Friday, October 1 

Golf Tournament – Optional Add-on

                                      You don’t need to be a pro. Come out and have some fun. More information will be announced later.

The Buck Stops Where? (ethics)

Presented by: Nelson Page, Esq. 

Several states have changed their bar rules to allow non-lawyers to be involved in owning and managing law firms.  Other jurisdictions are considering doing the same.  At the same time, technology has blurred the lines between what lawyers can do, what non-lawyers can do, and what clients can do for themselves.  What happens when lawyers lose their monopoly on providing legal services? You need to know about the changes that are coming and the ethical implications of these changes to your practice.  This course will discuss these and other topics including:  

Tuesday, October 5 – Santa Fe Walking Tour during the day

4:30 – 6:30 p.m. Optional Ticketed Event: Wine and Appetizers at Herve’ Wine Bar $30/pp

Dr. Ursula Bischoff, Principal of Bischoff Consulting, has extensive experience seeding innovation and partnerships in workforce, education, justice and human services programs. She provides training and assistance to support international, national, state, and regional organizations achieve mission-focused change and works with Boards to increase effectiveness and impact. She has significant experience supporting leaders to design collaborative partnership development, risk assessment and mitigation, and business process improvement strategies. Her work includes conducting organizational assessments to inform organizational turnaround strategies.  

Dr. Bischoff has run successful national training and technical assistance projects for the US Departments of Justice, Education and Labor as well as statewide and regional projects for the State of California Workforce Development Board, CA Labor and Workforce Development Agency, CA Employment Development Department, CA Department of Education, CA Department of Social Services and CA Department of Developmental Disabilities. She taught in the Social Work Master’s Program and conducted research at the University of Pennsylvania. Her experience as a social worker includes providing mental health services to children, youth and families in clinics and locked hospital facilities. She began her career a litigator for the City of New York Department of Housing Preservation and Development and was a litigation assistant on a class action in the General Counsel’s office of District Council 37 AFSCME-AFL CIO in New York City.  

Dr. Bischoff earned a JD from Hofstra Law School, where she was on the Hofstra Labor Law Journal, and was admitted to the Bars in NY, NJ, and PA [now retired]. She earned an MSW with honors as Outstanding Masters Student, a Graduate Certificate in Urban Studies, and PhD in Social Welfare from the University of Pennsylvania. She received the Emerging Scholar award from the Association for Research on Nonprofit and Voluntary Action, has presented at numerous national conferences and is a published author.  

Philip Bogdanoff is a nationally recognized continuing legal education speaker.  He served as senior assistant prosecutor in the Summit County, Ohio Prosecutor’s Office for more than 27 years. Mr. Bogdanoff has experience with exotic animal cases when he prosecuted a case where an exotic animal owner was charged with a homicide after his 300 pound pet tiger killed a young family member.  He has taught at seminars sponsored by the National District Attorneys Association, Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association, and other prosecutor groups.  He has also done presentations for law enforcement officers, bar associations, and law firms.  Attorneys describe his presentations as interactive, engaging, useful, and entertaining.  More information about Mr. Bogdanoff is available on his website, http://www.philipbogdanoff.com/. 

Nelson G. Page graduated from Georgetown University Law Center cum laude in 1978, where he was on the Board of Editors of the Georgetown Law Journal. He clerked for the Honorable Warren Matthews of the Alaska Supreme Court and then joined the firm of Burr, Pease and Kurtz, where he practiced in 

Anchorage for 38 years. Nelson’s practice included regular representation of professionals in malpractice litigation. He also served on the Alaska Bar Association Ethics Committee from 1994 to 2012, including 6 years as chair. From 2013 to 2016 he served on the Bar Association’s Board of Governors, and was its president in 2015 and 2016. In 2017 he became Bar Counsel for the State of Alaska, a position he held until 2019. In that capacity he handled over 2,000 ethics inquiries from Alaska lawyers and others. He has also served as adjunct faculty at the University of Alaska in Anchorage.